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INCREMENTALISM—Or, I’ve Either Grown Up or Have Been Beaten Down. During the past months of the health care reform debate, I have been on an...

I would like to communicate to you my sincere concerns over the overall premise and day to day operation of your website, the Huffington Post. If I did not care on how the image of Huffington Post reflects on all progressives, within and outside of the blogosphere, I would just walk away and say nothing, but it is considered a “representative” source for progressive thought. Therefore, I must speak on these issues.

Just so you know, there are trolls from HuffPost lurking on this site and reading our comments, and they have made comments on HuffPost...

I find myself rather in the minority in my fondness for Christoper Hitchens.   It has been said, with very real credibility, that he is...

Very few people know that the sausage business was started by an ex-senator who learned everything he needed to from his career in The...

From the time we are in grade school and then go onto high school, we all learn that sports is big business. You’re either one...

This weekend, President Obama visited Capitol Hill to talk to senators about the healthcare reform bill. I thought it would be interesting to see...

The Story of Cap & Trade is a fast-paced, fact-filled look at the leading climate solution being discussed at Copenhagen and on Capitol Hill. Host Annie Leonard introduces the energy traders and Wall Street financiers at the heart of this scheme and reveals the "devils in the details" in current cap and trade proposals: free permits to big polluters, fake offsets and distraction from what’s really required to tackle the climate crisis. If you’ve heard about cap and trade, but aren’t sure how it works (or who benefits), this is the film is for you.

I would like to share a group I stumbled across last Spring. A friend sent a YouTube video (Africa and in English) that totally...

Corporate "personhood" is endangering our democracy. Corporate lobbyists write many of our laws, not to benefit the American taxpayer, but for the benefit of the big corporations and banks.