What Happened When an Anti-Choice Catholic Woman Needed an Abortion at Dr. Tiller's Clinic

Amanda Mueller, TruthOut.org

Reproductive Justice and Gender: The Andersons were devastated to learn their unborn child wouldn't live. Dr. Tiller showed them the compassion they so badly wished they had from their friends.

We're Doing a Heckuva Job Helping Those Devastated by the Economic Meltdown

Karen Dolan, Diana Pearce, AlterNet

Rights and Liberties: Like the levees in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, the safety net is failing Americans battered by the 'Great Recession' of 2008-2009.

Purple Hearts On Death Row: War Damaged Vets Should Not Be Executed By the State

Karl R. Keys, Bill Pelke, AlterNet

Rights and Liberties: Soldiers are coming home traumatized by the carnage they've seen. As veterans, we believe those who commit crimes due to severe mental problems should be treated, not killed.

The Secret to Legal Marijuana? Women

Daniela Perdomo, AlterNet

DrugReporter: Why women have signed onto marijuana reform -- and why they could be the movement's game-changers.

Author Jonathan Safran Foer on Hunting, PETA, and Disagreeing with Michael Pollan

Kiera Butler, Mother Jones

Food: Foer's new book, Eating Animals, uncovers some ugly truths about America's meat production system, but he also weaves in stories from his own family history.

Obama's War Speech Woke the Sleeping Giant -- Anger Over Afghan Surge Fuels Country-Wide Protests

Jodie Evans, AlterNet

World: The president's announcement of a troop surge in Afghanistan this week prompted protests in over 80 communities across the country.

Cops Taze Disturbed, Unarmed Naked Man to Death for "Walking Toward Them'

Steven D., Booman Tribune

Health and Wellness: Thank God for safe, humane, non-lethal technology.

America Without a Middle Class -- It's Not Far Away As You Might Think

Elizabeth Warren, AlterNet

Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace: America today has plenty of rich and super-rich. But it has far more families who did all the right things, but who still have no real security.

Copenhagen Climate Talks Set to Begin: What's Likely to Happen and What's at Stake

Bill McKibben, Yale Environment 360

Environment: The planet's climate scientists, bureaucrats, activists, skeptics and journalists will descend on Copenhagen for a fortnight of meeting, marching, denying and most of all spinning.

Going Undercover in the Crazy, Tragic World of Christian Gay-Conversion Therapy

Sena Christian, AlterNet

Sex and Relationships: Ted Cox posed as a gay man to infiltrate gay-to-straight therapy programs. What he found was equal parts shocking and tragic.

Memo to Congress: Desperate Times Call for Faster Measures

Paul Starr,

Politics: Health-care reform needs to kick in faster than the current bills allow. And Congress better pass some Main Street economic measures -- on the double.

The Other Occupation: Western Sahara and the Case of Aminatou Haidar

Stephen Zunes, AlterNet

World: How long will U.S. authorities ignore the bleak realities of Moroccan repression?

"Tea Party: The Documentary" -- Attending a Bizarre Movie Premiere for Right-Wingers in Washington

Adele M. Stan, AlterNet

Politics: Presented by FreedomWorks, the front group that organized the 9/12 March, a new documentary on the tea parties attempts to suggest that the protests were spontaneous.

Why Is Tiger Woods in Trouble? It's Not His Steamy Sex Life; It's His Family Values Hypocrisy

Vanessa Richmond, AlterNet

Sex and Relationships: What's the biggest P.R. sin? It's not infidelity, or kinky sex, or making sex tapes. It's profiting from a holier-than-though public image based on lies.

Progressive Leaders Pan Obama's Decision for More War in Afghanistan -- 10 Reactions

AlterNet

World: Tom Hayden says he's taking the Obama bumpersticker off his car, Laura Flanders says the Bush Doctrine is still alive, and more.

Righteous Porkchop: Vegetarian Rancher Explains How to Raise Animals the Right Way and the Ills of Factory Farms

Tara Lohan, AlterNet

Food: Nicolette Hahn Niman's new book offers a much-needed addition to the debate about whether we should be eating meat.

Hey Religious Believers, Where's Your Evidence?

Greta Christina, AlterNet

Belief: In the marketplace of ideas, only religion gets a free ride in an armored tank.

Why Should We Get Out of Afghanistan? Because Imperialism Is a Fool's Game

Larry Beinhart, AlterNet

World: Imperial occupations have become geometrically more difficult since the Second World War.

What's Cap and Trade? A New Video Breaks it Down and Reveals the Plan as a Scam

Janet Redman, MinuteMan Media

Environment: It's a scheme that tries to sell business-as-usual as a solution to global warming. Here's how it works.

Congress Can Kill Outlandish Bonuses for Wall Streeters: Why Won't They?

Sam Pizzigati, Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality

Politics: We need more protection from corporate greed than the current mainstream antidotes provide. Americans get this. Too bad moderate reformers don't.

Prop. 8 Challenge Puts Homosexuality on Trial

Gabriel Arana, The American Prospect

Sex and Relationships: Much more than marriage is at stake in the federal legal challenge to Prop. 8. Like Brown v. Board of Education,it can change American life. But it can also go very wrong.

Ehrenreich: The Pink-Ribbon Breast Cancer Cult

Barbara Ehrenreich, Tomdispatch.com

Reproductive Justice and Gender: What feminists don't need, no matter how many "races for the cure" they run, is a ladies’ auxiliary to the cancer-industrial complex.

The Placebo Effect: Studies Reveal How Fake Medicine Actually Reduces Pain

Michael Haederle, Miller-McCune.com

Health and Wellness: New medical research is finding that the pain relief induced by placebos may come from releasing the body's own chemical pain relievers.

Obama's War Speech Offered Something for Everybody -- But Who's Buying It?

Rory O'Connor, MediaChannel.org

Politics: Obama's promise: Let's come together and get along to end the war - by waging the war more intensely…but only for eighteen months, and then we all get to go home.

Fed Up With Federalism

Harold Meyerson, The American Prospect

Politics: How America's commitment to states' rights is undermining our economic recovery.

Hightower: What Is Obama Getting Us into in Afghanistan?

Jim Hightower, Creators Syndicate

World: Cut the music, and let's all ponder what Barack Obama, Roberts Gates, Stanley McChrystal and Co. are getting us into ... and whether we really want to go there.

Not One More Tax Dollar For the Banks

Dean Baker, Comment Is Free

Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace: The millions of American families struggling to keep up with their bubble-era mortgages are the ones who deserve help.

Stephen Colbert: Why Doesn't Obama Listen to Glenn Beck and My Little Pony?

Tana Ganeva, AlterNet

PEEK: Really, are there any better military strategists out there?

Does the Vatican Have a Say in Your Health Decisions?

Ann Neumann, AlterNet

Reproductive Justice and Gender: As more health facilities merge with Catholic hospitals in response to economic hardship, patients' rights are increasingly restricted by Catholic doctrine.

How America Holds Court: The Seedy Dealings Underpinning Our Legal System

Amy Bach, Metropolitan Books

Rights and Liberties: It's getting harder and harder to exercise your legal rights if you aren't well to do. Where's the justice in that?

Obama's Misguided War Speech Shouldn't Be the Last Word on Afghanistan

John Nichols, The Nation

World: Presidents are not supposed to begin and end the discussion about war. With both parties divided over Afghanistan, it's time for Congress to debate the Obama's war plan.

A Humanitarian Disaster in the Making Along the Chad-Cameroon Oil Pipeline -- Who's Watching?

Brendan Schwartz, Valery Nodem, AlterNet

World: The discovery of oil in Chad was supposed to allieviate poverty and human suffering, but it's only enriched Western Oil companies and the local dictators.

The Most Urgent Threat to World Peace Is … Canada

George Monbiot, Monbiot.com

Environment: The harm this country could do in the next two weeks will outweigh all the good it has done in a century.

The Recession Is Taking a Bite Out of Meat Consumption

Martha Rosenberg, AlterNet

Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace: More than half of Americans have cut back on meat. Martha Stewart broadcasts a meatless Thanksgiving show. What gives?

Waiting with 45,000 People Afraid of Losing Their Homes -- Ground Zero in America's Mortgage Meltdown

Andy Kroll, Tomdispatch.com

Politics: The American home-owner's dream is on life support: millions are suffering disastrous subprime mortgages or sky-high interest rates.

Let's Get Rolling on Unemployment -- We Need a Direct Govt. Jobs Program

Isaiah J. Poole, Blog for Our Future

Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace: At a time when unemployment is expected to exceed 10 percent for the next several months, we should be talking about direct job funding by the government.

Passive Solar Technique: Let Nature Heat Your Home

James Kachadorian, Chelsea Green Publishing

Environment: Solar saves money, benefits the planet and makes for a comfortable house that requires little in the name of back-up fuel.