The corporate press has been in bed with John McCain for years.  What's more, whenever the GOP smells the slightest whiff of objectivity from the media, they immediately cry foul.  That was the discussion of this week's Meet the Bloggers, in which punk rock icon, actor, and spoken word...

Yesterday I visited Neshaminy Maple Point Middle School in Langhorne, PA, where Senator Joe Biden was there to explain to the packed crowd what the McCain/Palin ticket seems to think that the American people don't care about...

The Middle Class

More Cops on the Street

Healthcare

Education

Joe said it...

Sarah Palin is an able liar, as her acceptance speech showed. She may be a coward, too, at least when it comes to facing down the reporters she blasted from the comfort of that solitary podium in St. Paul.

The McCain campaign has admitted to a

Almost all of the coverage I've seen about Barack Obama's campaign strategy has mentioned his cultivation and understanding of the internet community -- the online activists who have formed the backbone of his tremendous fund raising machine. Of all the candidates this year he has been the most savvy in...

This controversial report from a former student at Walter Reed Middle School rips the lid off of the scandal that left America asking "Seriously, WTF is the picture doing up there behind McCain? Is it a mansion or what? Huh? Seriously."

When it comes to the mass marketing of ideas, the conservatives have been embarrassing the progressives for years. I attribute this to the simple fact that it is easy to rally around the simple battle cry, "Nothing new!" That's it. Any change is the enemy. Fight all that's not here...

Make An Effort is a campaign for The UnConvention (www.theunconvention.com) designed by Minneapolis advertising agency, Campbell Mithun, to encourage Twin Cities residents to find their own unconventional ways to welcome the visitors who arrived for the Republican National Convention this past week. The campaign does not ignore the...

Only in America could a man who has been in office for decades run as an "outsider" against the entrenched interests in Washington

Only in America could a man who is a longtime Republican stalwart run against his own party, which has governed while controlling most of the institutional...

As of this writing, before Sarah Palin's speech Wednesday night, it is already clear what her message will be. Just read this Washington Post account, which begins:

Sen. John McCain's top campaign strategist accused the news media Tuesday of being "on a mission to destroy" Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin...

Journalists and St. Paul citizens assembled outside St. Paul City Hall today to deliver more than 60,000 letters to Mayor Chris Coleman and prosecuting attorneys demanding that they immediately drop charges against all journalists arrested this week as they covered the Republican National Convention

By Friday morning, dozens of...

YouTube + Yahoo! Answers + Twitter + Unremitting Blogging = Sarah Palin.

Last night, we saw the debut of a politician who was made possible by the last 5 years of the Internet. Those in the game call it Web 2.0, and it carries in its wake many variants of...

PARIS - I finally lost it the other day when a TV newscaster mentioned in passing that two Dutch journalists were killed trying to cover Russia's march through Georgia.

Then in the New York Review of Books, Michael Massing noted that U.S. officers in Iraq vetted samples of his...

When I was a little girl, one still heard the inspiring slogan that America was a place so full of promise and equal opportunity that "Any boy can grow up to be president."

(The 21st century corollary, "Any flag lapel pin-sporting attractive outdoorsy conservative female with five children one of...

Harry Shearer - comedian, writer, cartoon voice, Spinal Tap bassist, Huff Post contributor - gets the Deborah Solomon treatment in this coming Sunday's New York Times Magazine. The piece is titled, "One Man, Many Media."

Solomon describes him as "a left-leaning blogger."

The talk ranges from his new album,...

Last night, while Americans sat quietly expecting to watch a video 'tribute' to victims of the terrorist attacks  on September 11, 2001--John McCain took advantage...

Last spring, I wrote a column about The New York Sun called "Potemkin Paper?" For those of you outside the New York City area (or for the many of you in it that still likely don't read the paper), it's something like what you'd expect if Marty Peretz ran...

Hello, and welcome to the very first Y'Gotta Be Kiddin' Award Ceremony.

Named after legendary Danish Mayor, Yugotz Tabekiddin, who once took credit for ending a civil dispute he had started in the village of Ikea, due to every man, man and woman relocating...

The Evil-Doers and Haters video

No surprise, Palin gets between McCain and the cameras after Mac's speech.
Meanwhile, McCain's gesture describes whose...

John McCain's nomination speech was so flat, so disjointed, so utterly devoid of any vision or affirmative plan for the U.S. -- it's hard to say much about it, other than it sucked.

That's basically what CNN's Jeffrey Toobin was driving at when he panned it in historic proportions...

As I reported here weeks ago, the new (and fourth) Bob Woodward book on President Bush would be published a week after Labor Day, under strict secrecy with his Washington Post promised first dibs. Late today, however, Fox News said it had obtained an advance copy, and quickly spilled some...