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Meet Obama's Fancy Celebrity 'Bundlers'
Jim Newell · 07/15/11 04:07PMSo, campaign finance! Perhaps in need of some constitutional reform, hmm? But for now, the rules of the game for presidential campaigns are that you call all of your rich friends and have them bundle donations from their rich friends, "sometimes" in exchange for access or favors for everyone in this elaborate network of rich friends. So who's on the just-released Obama bundler list?
Dow Jones CEO Steps Down in Murdoch's Metastasizing Hacking Mess
John Cook · 07/15/11 03:19PMRupert Murdoch Offers Up Standard PR Firm-Written Apology
Hamilton Nolan · 07/15/11 02:56PMEmmy Nominations That Should Happen But Never Will
Richard Lawson · 07/13/11 02:06PMLindsay Lohan 'Indignant That She Was Not Considered for Black Swan’
Maureen O'Connor · 07/13/11 10:47AMThe Scandal's Second Scalp: News Corp Abandons BSkyB Bid
Hamilton Nolan · 07/13/11 09:22AMDo you hear that? It's the sound of another shoe dropping. News Corp, besieged by a strange and unfamiliar phenomenon called "bad publicity that can't just be ignored," just announced that it's abandoning its lengthy (and extremely important, at least in the context of European media) quest to take over British Sky Broadcasting.
HuffPo Suspends Writer for Doing 'What We Were Taught and Told to Do'
Ryan Tate · 07/11/11 03:52PMRupert Murdoch Is Coming to Save the Day
Adrian Chen · 07/08/11 06:08PMObama's Laser-like Focus on Jobs Paid Off With a Whopping 18,000 New Ones Last Month
John Cook · 07/08/11 11:05AMThe new monthly jobs report is out, and guess what? Unemployment is up to 9.2%, the economy only added 18,000 jobs (one-tenth of the number needed to find jobs for all the poor saps entering the workforce right now), we created 44,000 fewer jobs than we thought in April and May, 14.1 million Americans are out of work, and roving bandit gangs are lighting tire fires in the street outside your house right now.
Natalie Portman's Baby Name: Aleph
Maureen O'Connor · 07/06/11 05:19PMInside the Huffington Post-AOL Civil War
Ryan Tate · 06/10/11 02:25PMThe Strange Story of Kanye West and Mary-Kate Olsen Making Out
Maureen O'Connor · 06/10/11 10:58AMLady Gaga Criticizes Steve Jobs To His Face
Ryan Tate · 06/06/11 04:15PMDonald Trump Is Already Trying to Cash In On That Whole 'Campaign' Thing
John Cook · 06/03/11 05:02PMGisele Bundchen Is Becoming a Billionaire and You're Not
Richard Lawson · 06/03/11 04:44PMSean Parker Trapped in Endless Nightmare of Awesome Parties
Adrian Chen · 06/03/11 11:43AMMath Proves That Obama Will Have a Major Scandal Soon
Jim Newell · 05/27/11 11:55AMNatalie Portman's Night with Backstabbing Ballerinas
Maureen O'Connor · 05/26/11 10:27AMSchwarzenegger Mistress Identified
Max Read · 05/17/11 10:49PMOn Tuesday, former Governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger acknowledged that he had fathered a child out of wedlock. There were scant details beyond a vague timeframe—"more than a decade ago"—and the occupation of the child's mother: "a longtime member of [the family's] household staff." But two tabloids have just identified the woman as Mildred "Patty" Baena, age 50, a former housekeeper at Schwarzenegger's Brentwood estate.