Last week, union and management in the New York City hotel industry announced a new contract for 30,000 hotel workers in the city, including the headline-making number that housekeepers would be maki...
"First it was Michael Jackson, then it was Amy Winehouse and now the magnificent Whitney Houston. Id like to have every gentleman and lady in this room commit themselves to get our government to ...
Linsanity may now be considered a bona fide cultural moment, if for no other reason than the response it has provoked: It has generated its very own backlash. The boxer Floyd Mayweather caused a stir...
President Obamas budget for 2013 is a sharp improvement over his 2012 budget. What a difference a year makes. Back then, the emphasis was all deficit all the time. If I exaggerate a bit, it is becaus...
You have to fire Nancy Grace. Is that simple and unambiguous enough for you to get through your heads the gravity of the situation that the worlds most irresponsible cable news presence has put your ...
Big was on this weekend. Tom Hanks. Great role and second only to Bachelor Party. Who didnt want to be big in sixth grade? But what no kid can understand in sixth grade is that becoming older, turnin...
When I hear Mitt Romney revising history to criticize President Obama for taking action to ensure the survival of the American auto industry, I find it incredibly frustrating and disingenuous. Mitt R...
Alex is a teen participants in the Junior States of America (JSA), a student-run political organization for high school students. Barry Goldwater ("Mr. Conservative") famously proclaimed that...
As the presidential campaign continues to focus on economic woes, its a good time to remember that many of our nations kids are in trouble as well. That, in turn, can affect the economy itself. Admit...
In my seven-year tenure as governor of the great state of Washington, yesterday was one of the best. Thats when I signed the bill providing marriage equality for all Washingtonians, and it is the day...
Watching whats happening to our democracy is like watching the cruise ship Costa Concordia founder and sink slowly into the sea off the coast of Italy, as the passengers, shorn of life vests, scrambl...
Tommy Jordan, the mad dad who shot his daughters laptop, is right up there with Charlie who bit his brothers finger. Theyre both YouTube sensations and they both share an infantile sense of pleasure ...
Republicans on the campaign trail denounce Obamas health care reforms as a virtual threat to the Republic. Its "socialized medicine," "a job killer," "a government takeover of hea...
*** Updated at 1:00 pm ET: Were now at 777,000 signatures and going even higher. Stay up to date at 350.org/kxl *** This has been an amazing 24 hours, the third in a trio of events that took Keystone...
I have always loved the greeting card aisle. I love looking at the designs, which have gotten so much more sophisticated, indie-artsy, and embellished over the years. (I do like to send a little glit...
President Barack Obama in principle is committed to supporting the growing movement to get money out of politics. But the reality today is that the president has to play by the same set of rules that...
American Decline in Perspective, Part 1 Cross-posted with TomDispatch.com Significant anniversaries are solemnly commemorated -- Japan’s attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, for examp...
Im Jewish. I was raised with the notion that I should someday marry another Jewish person, raise Jewish children and once and for all make my Jewish mother and grandmothers happy. Yet, I know plenty ...
Laughter is good for the heart -- and soul. This "Map of a Womans Heart" (D.W. Kellogg & Co. circa 1833-1842), brings me such glee that I hope you will indulge me as I take you on a tour of i...
Mr. Nixon... has had his problems in this campaign. At one point even the Wall Street Journal was criticizing his tactics.That is like the Osservatore Romano criticizing the Pope. John F. Kennedy, 19...
No doubt: its been a very good year for both these stars. And much as I admire Jean Dujardins sublime performance in The Artist, my hunch is that the industry will favor one of its own on Oscar night...
While the United States has had a relatively mild winter to date, the winter has been exceptionally harsh in much of Europe, especially Eastern Europe in recent weeks. What does all of this say about...
I must say I have been a bit frightened lately by this thing called "Obamacare." I always hear that its going to kill jobs, gut Medicare, and tear up the constitution. It just sounds horrible...
What started out as a mild infatuation developed into a deep affection. So after repeated spins of Sugar + the Hi-lows debut album, its time to spread a little lovin. With a playlist that seducti...
Last spring, right on the heels of one of the biggest events in his life, his sons wedding -- and with the eyes of the world upon his family -- Prince Charles came to the United States to deliver a s...
Somewhere along the way, my quarter-centennial crept up on me. 25 is paradoxical -- you know youre still so, so young, that you still have so much to learn, that there is so much ahead. And yet, by t...
If you want to get healthy, you just might not want to go to a doctor. You might instead, go to church. The power of community to create health is far greater than any physician, clinic or hospital. ...
Theres a shame in me that I can only face in moments of my deepest truth. Its confronting a monster inside vicious and treacherous and wholly evil, one who waits for me in the dark recesses of my bei...
In one of the most uninformed -- and counter-productive -- op-eds weve read in the last five years, President Barack Obamas first chairwoman of the Council of Economic Advisors, Christina D. Romer, j...
Glenn Eichler developed and served as executive producer for the MTV series "Daria." As told to Glenn Eichler... I always just assumed that when the inevitable happened and The Huffington Pos...
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