Stories by Michelle Goldberg
There's something really rotten in the state of Texas.
Posted on Nov 4, 2009, Source: The American Prospect
For years, the religious right tried to lose its racist image, reverting to homophobia as its hatred of choice. As it joins the Tea Party fray, it may once again have to own both.
Posted on Oct 2, 2009, Source: The American Prospect
Mobilized by the theocratic bombast of Bush-era Republicans, America's growing number of atheists are pushing for greater recognition.
Posted on Mar 18, 2009, Source: The Guardian
The religious right can be confident that they'd have a fundamentalist in the White House with Sarah Palin.
Posted on Sep 29, 2008, Source: The Nation
The largest and most powerful mass movement in the nation -- evangelical Christianity -- has set out to destroy secular society.
Posted on May 30, 2006, Source: AlterNet
The U.S. helped build the Islamic fundamentalist movement threatening to take over Pakistan. Now can it rescue the world from the deadly consequences?
Posted on Nov 7, 2002, Source: Salon
Fed up with their state's draconian laws, New York voters have suddenly made long-shot independent Tom Golisano a force in the governor's race.
Posted on Oct 22, 2002, Source: AlterNet
In an age of religious fanatics, patriotic zealots and self-righteous leftists, Rushdie champions free thinking and fun.
Posted on Oct 3, 2002, Source: Salon
At ground zero, Americans suck the last morsel of flavor from the most exciting day they will ever know.
Posted on Aug 29, 2002, Source: Salon
There are women in the Senate, women heading studios and busloads of young women emerging from film school. So why are 96 percent of films directed by men?
Posted on Aug 27, 2002, Source: Salon
Fed up with draconian drug penalties, a coalition led by angry mothers is threatening to overturn some of the country's harshest laws.
Posted on Aug 6, 2002, Source: Salon
Left Behind, the bestselling series of paranoid, pro-Israel end-time thrillers, may sound kooky, but America's right-wing leaders really believe this stuff.
Posted on Aug 2, 2002, Source: Salon
Backpacker fiction like "The Beach" explores the authenticity-grubbing subculture of the dreadlocked, ganja-scented travelers, but women have been left out -- until now.
Posted on Jul 8, 2002, Source: Salon
Anointed by the desperate music media as pop's new king, Moby brings electronica to the masses with his new album "18."
Posted on Jun 7, 2002, Source: Salon
Kristina Borjesson talks about "Into the Buzzsaw" and her excommunication from mainstream journalism after she began challenging government assertions about TWA Flight 800.
Posted on Apr 23, 2002, Source: AlterNet
A previously unpublished photo of a sexual assault at Seattle's 2001 Mardi Gras won a major photojournalism prize -- and raised difficult questions about privacy.
Posted on Apr 15, 2002, Source: Women's eNews
The authors of the incendiary new book "Into the Buzzsaw" have won nearly every journalism award possible, yet all were censorsed for challenging corporate or government power.
Posted on Apr 1, 2002, Source: AlterNet
Tough-guy writer Nick Tosches elegantly mourns the vanishing of a decadent icon. Michelle Goldberg writes that she "knows from my own blissful experience that the opium den lives on."
Posted on Mar 7, 2002, Source: Salon
Now that anti-Semitism has receded in America, young Jews are looking around and wondering what it means to be Jewish if being Jewish no longer means being persecuted.
Posted on Feb 11, 2002, Source: AlterNet
A recent spate of pop culture man-beatings indicates that the War of the Sexes is far from over. Why has the image of a frenzied female attacking a callow guy become a media staple?
Posted on Jan 31, 2002, Source: AlterNet
In the mainstream media, unemployment has falsely mutated into a hot new trend. Stories of happy, laid-off hipsters have obscured the true tragedy of post-9/11 poverty.
Posted on Jan 15, 2002, Source: AlterNet
In the year 2000, after decades of wrangling with the myth of the ugly, hirsute, ball-busting women's libber, the culture has finally seemed to reconcile beauty and power, fun and feminism. But like so many other cease-fires in our society, this one was negotiated largely in the marketplace.
Posted on Jan 8, 2001, Source: AlterNet
The newest source of pop-culture fascination and bawdy celebration is food. But why is there so much drama in simply admitting to the intense pleasures of taste?
Posted on Jan 2, 2001, Source: Metro Silicon Valley
New Hope, a live-in program that "cures" gays, boasts a 50 percent "success rate." Why are its residents working so hard to be straight?
Posted on Nov 29, 2000, Source: Metro Silicon Valley
"One expects William Vollmann, swashbuckling whoredog, war correspondent, quixotic freedom fighter, gun aficionado and fiction prodigy, to be gruff and imperious. Yet, out of all the many writers I've interviewed, he's probably the only one who, after giving long, considered answers, looks at me and asks "what do you think?"
Posted on Oct 24, 2000, Source: AlterNet
As the dotcom layoffs mount -- a recent New York Times article counts more than 2,000 -- so do the ranks of the disillusioned. Dotcom deathwatchers like dotcomfailures.com and FuckedCompany.com suggest that a backlash is brewing against the Internet economy.
Posted on Jul 10, 2000, Source: Metro Silicon Valley
A handful of resourceful techno-privacy activists have taken over Sealand, an island fortress six miles from the English coast, and plan to start a super-secure data sanctuary there.
Posted on Jun 19, 2000, Source: AlterNet
