‘Mark Twain’s America’ and ‘Huck Finn’s America’
Fresh and funny today as he was more than a century ago, Mark Twain wittily distrusted everything bogus, inflated, predictable or empty. He was a man of a thousand American…
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Fresh and funny today as he was more than a century ago, Mark Twain wittily distrusted everything bogus, inflated, predictable or empty. He was a man of a thousand American…
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama wants more tourists to visit the United States and spend their hard-earned cash, whether at the slot machines in Vegas, the beaches of Miami, the…
This panel is a presentation of The Dr. Lawrence H. and Roberta Cohn Forums, at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in collaboration with The Huffington Post. As…
Main Street, U.S.A. is America at the turn of the [20th] century – the crossroads of an era, the gas lamps and the electric lamp – the horse-drawn car and…
In Springfield, Illinois, Barack Obama flashed a smile, bounded on stage in a long dark coat, and vowed, like his political hero, to “transform a nation” and unleash a wave…
Watch out America! If you see a 68-year-old grandmother running down the highway pulling a bright orange cart behind her, it’s just Rosie Swale Pope. Rosie is a global adventurer…
Land Rover and Jaguar are recalling 104,000 vehicles because of problems with the brakes and lights. The largest recall involves a brake-hose issue that Jaguar Land Rover North America studied…
Gina Rodriguez and America Ferrera have more in common than being the only Latina women to have won Golden Globes for best actress: Both of their series’ were originally Latin…
Peter Quill aka Star-Lord and Captain America have teamed up, and it’s for a great cause. – — Chris Evans (@ChrisEvans) February 6, 2015
And then this: “No Weapons Allowed Except Guitars.” It’s tribute to the fact that Guthrie — who wrote “This Land is Your Land” and who basically was Bob Dylan before…
What does it take to get to the top — without losing your center? Our “Making It Work” series profiles successful, dynamic women who are standouts in their fields, peeling…
The style game was strong this week. Many of our favorite celebs stepped out in some pretty amazing looks that left us speechless. Julianne Moore wowed in not one but…
Teach for America, the education powerhouse that has sent thousands of handpicked college graduates to teach in some of the nation’s most troubled schools, is suddenly having recruitment problems. For…
WASHINGTON — President Obama plans to release his second, and final, national security strategy on Friday, laying out a blueprint for robust American leadership for his remaining time in office while…
Common Sense By JAMES B. STEWART With all the recent excitement over Shake Shack — its share price more than doubled the day it went public last week — and…
In 1995, Jason Lee was known more for being a professional skateboarder than making America laugh. Then “Mallrats,” a cult classic, came along, and Lee was never the same. And,…
Neil deGrasse Tyson isn’t one to mince words. – Are you listening, America?
We’re really more into Batman. But this guy is really into Red Skull, the supervillain from Captain America. – What the?! Comic book fan chops off nose to look like…
It’s no secret that we here at HuffPost Taste have a bit of a sweet tooth. We relentlessly put together one dessert round-up after another (ahem, like this collection of…
While moms in America are often starred at or shamed for breastfeeding in public, the opposite is true in Africa. – Sign up here for Live Today, HuffPost Live’s morning…
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (RNS) The collected works of Jonathan Edwards, the 18th-century preacher and one of America’s most famous theologians, are now available for download thanks to Logos Bible Software….
Charlie Sifford, who only wanted a chance to play and broke the color barrier in golf as the first PGA Tour member, died Tuesday night, the PGA of America said….
Ahh, Central America. While most travelers spend their time plotting escapes to Europe or Southeast Asia, this little nugget sits unassumingly right under their noses (literally — it’s pretty much…
Have you ever finished eating a taco and thought to yourself, “Man, I really wish I had a dessert taco to round this meal out”? We totally hear you. The…
The Women’s Mosque of America opened its doors on Friday in central Los Angeles, welcoming a crowd of Muslim women from around the country. L.A.-based professionals M. Hasna Maznavi and…
The NFL just wasn’t adding up for Ricardo Silva, so he decided to hang up his shoulder pads and head back to schoolto teach high school geometry. Silva, 26, played…
Standing before a conservative audience at the first annual Iowa Freedom Summit, in an auditorium usually reserved for the Des Moines ballet, the firebrand Senator from Texas distilled the state’s…
Vice President Joe Biden says President Barack Obama’s budget will call for $1 billion in aid for Central America. He says that’s three times what the U.S. typically gives the…
The media is not taking this whole “Marshawn Lynch not really talking to the press” thing very well. Just this week, adult members of the media have asked the Seattle…
When McDonald’s CEO Don Thompson officially steps down in March, there will be just four black CEOs in the Fortune 500. Even as politicians, pundits and the business community work…