Stories by Arianna Huffington
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The love affair between Sen. Daschle's wife Linda and the airline industry shows that good things can happen to broke companies with good connections.
Posted on Mar 6, 2003, Source: AlterNet
The little guys have reached the breaking point and are taking matters into their own hands -- stepping into the breach with the one-two punch of proxy resolutions and lawsuits.
Posted on Feb 26, 2003, Source: AlterNet
The dots leading from Wall Street to the West Wing situation room are the ones that need connecting.
Posted on Feb 19, 2003, Source: AlterNet
"According to the IRS, hundreds of other businesses and executives have used questionable shelters to escape paying billions of dollars in taxes."
Posted on Feb 12, 2003, Source: AlterNet
Putting John Snow, a world-class tax dodger, at the controls of our sputtering economy has all the makings of a world-class train wreck.
Posted on Feb 5, 2003, Source: AlterNet
What the State of the Union address could have been.
Posted on Jan 24, 2003, Source: AlterNet
Thanks to Denny Hastert and his pals in the House Republican leadership, lobbyists will now be able to pick up the tab for House members whenever the lawmakers attend charitable events, including golf outings and those all-important policy retreats held at lavish resorts.
Posted on Jan 22, 2003, Source: AlterNet
Isn't the genius of capitalism to let the free market -- not the Attorney General of New York -- pick winners and losers depending on how they play the game?
Posted on Jan 15, 2003, Source: AlterNet
The sales deck is clearly stacked in favor of Detroit's beloved behemoths, with billions being spent on SUV advertising and ever-more tempting marketing come-ons.
Posted on Jan 8, 2003, Source: AlterNet
Here is a list of those things we'd all like to forget, circa 2002.
Posted on Jan 2, 2003, Source: AlterNet
I've got a feeling it isn't going to be a very merry Christmas this year in CEO-land.
Posted on Dec 23, 2002, Source: AlterNet
These latest victories of vox populi remind us that, by standing up and voicing our dissent, we can still make a difference -- at least for a week.
Posted on Dec 20, 2002, Source: AlterNet
Sometimes a small thing like the misuse of the apostrophe can have much bigger ramifications than we think.
Posted on Dec 16, 2002, Source: AlterNet
Team Bush now stomps down the halls of power like Godzilla trampling the streets of Tokyo.
Posted on Dec 12, 2002, Source: AlterNet
The Bush administration subverted campaign finance reform by breaking a promise it had made to Sen. McCain.
Posted on Dec 9, 2002, Source: AlterNet
Jeb Bush's daughter's drug problem is a "private issue" to be treated with respect. Why must poor drug offenders be subjected to public humiliation and incarceration?
Posted on Dec 8, 2002, Source: AlterNet
Everyone in D.C., it seems, is utterly baffled as to how an ugly little provision shielding pharmaceutical behemoth Eli Lilly from billions in lawsuits filed by the parents of autistic children made its way, in the 12th hour, into, of all things, the 475-page Homeland Security bill.
Posted on Dec 4, 2002, Source: AlterNet
Congress reverses a provision in the Homeland Security Bill banning government contracts for companies that move offshore to avoid paying U.S. taxes.
Posted on Dec 2, 2002, Source: AlterNet
There seems to be no shortage of SUV-loving Americans who think that consuming 25 percent of the world's oil just isn't enough.
Posted on Nov 25, 2002, Source: AlterNet
Gone is the bold, combative, impassioned, progressive politician we've come to know over her 15 years in the House.
Posted on Nov 21, 2002, Source: AlterNet
Wall Street's credibility was downgraded yet again after the dirty tricks of Jack Grubman and Citigroup Chariman Sandy Weill came to light last week.
Posted on Nov 18, 2002, Source: AlterNet
For years now, the accuracy of political polls has been -- in the parlance of the trade -- "trending downward." Last week it hit bottom.
Posted on Nov 14, 2002, Source: AlterNet
When Bush asks the nation to "serve something greater than ourselves," he should push for more significant acts than becoming a Boy Scout or Girl Scout leader.
Posted on Nov 11, 2002, Source: AlterNet
The problem wasn't that the president was out there delivering his message. The problem was that you failed to have anyone out there delivering any kind of galvanizing, opposing message.
Posted on Nov 7, 2002, Source: AlterNet
The only truly compelling aspect of Election 2002 has been trying to decide which campaign was the most inept.
Posted on Nov 5, 2002, Source: AlterNet
A federal judge struck down a Food and Drug Administration regulation that required drug makers to test medicines routinely given to children.
Posted on Oct 31, 2002, Source: AlterNet
Paul Wellstone's entire political career was dedicated to bringing that something -- that soul -- back to American politics.
Posted on Oct 28, 2002, Source: AlterNet
The sniper attacks have made Michael Moore's movie, "Bowling for Columbine," essential viewing for anyone who wants to understand how the NRA has contributed to a culture of violence.
Posted on Oct 25, 2002, Source: AlterNet
Department of Justice lawyers lined up on behalf of the Bush's friends in the hydrocarbon-loving auto-manufacturing industry to strangle California's attempt at cleaning up the air.
Posted on Oct 21, 2002, Source: AlterNet
The most affluent fifth of the American population received half of all household income last year, while the poorest fifth received 3.5 percent.
Posted on Oct 18, 2002, Source: AlterNet
It's post-Enron synergy: corporate restitution and boffo ratings!
Posted on Oct 10, 2002, Source: AlterNet
No one in the Bush administration is talking about how many of our soldiers will be sent home in body bags.
Posted on Oct 7, 2002, Source: AlterNet
Robert Torricelli's self-serving, teary-eyed, 'I've-been-done-wrong' speech announcing the end of his reelection bid was enough to curdle even the sweetest milk of human kindness.
Posted on Oct 2, 2002, Source: AlterNet
In this latest rewrite of history, Osama has suddenly lost his beard and grown a mustache, morphing into the Butcher of Baghdad -- or one of the look-alike stand-ins Saddam has been using for public appearances since 1998.
Posted on Sep 30, 2002, Source: AlterNet
Somehow all the world's evildoers have been awarded honorary Iraqi citizenship by Mr. Bush and his saber-rattling support group of Rumsfeld, Cheney, Rice, and Co.
Posted on Sep 27, 2002, Source: AlterNet
Only a tone-deaf politician could fail to realize that there is much political hay to be made from the current bumper crop of corporate scandals. So, with control of the Senate at stake, candidates -- especially in tight races like Minnesota, Missouri and Texas -- are slipping into the mantle of the reformer and doing all they can to squeeze their way into the crowded populist tent.
Posted on Sep 23, 2002, Source: AlterNet
Despite indictment after indictment, criminal CEOs don't seem to be getting the notion of right and wrong.
Posted on Sep 19, 2002, Source: AlterNet
The youthful indiscretions of the rich -- and of Bush family members -- are routinely treated with a slap on the wrist and a ticket to rehab while poor kids are shipped off to prison.
Posted on Sep 16, 2002, Source: AlterNet
Reforms of IPO loopholes that allow the wealthiest one percent of America to control 47.7 percent of the market are needed now, not after the election or regime change in Iraq.
Posted on Sep 12, 2002, Source: AlterNet
Let us also not for forget Sept. 12, the day the shock subsided and Americans responded with charity and service.
Posted on Sep 9, 2002, Source: AlterNet
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