Stories by James Ridgeway
James Ridgeway is a senior correspondent at Mother Jones. For more of his stories, click here. Get James Ridgeway's RSS feed.
Posted on Jul 15, 2011, Source: Al Jazeera English
Antipsychotics are the single top-selling therapeutic class of prescription drugs in the United States.
Posted on Jan 6, 2010, Source: Mother Jones Online
The TSA has a dismal record of enriching private corporations with failed technologies. Will the "digital strip search" device just bring more of the same?
Posted on Dec 23, 2009, Source: CounterPunch
'Moderation' has come to mean weighing the interests of campaign contributors -- Big Pharma vs. the insurance companies -- with little concern for the American people.
Posted on Dec 8, 2009, Source: Mother Jones Online
As the Senate negotiates its health-care reform bill, liberals appear ready to throw in the towel on a real public option.
Posted on Oct 8, 2009, Source: MotherJones.com
What starts with "f," ends with "k," and means "screw your workers"? That's right -- 401(k).
Posted on Aug 3, 2009, Source: Mother Jones Online
Government agents arrest a white separatist accused of a bombing. What took them so long?
Posted on Jun 6, 2009, Source: MotherJones.com
Alleged murderer Scott Roeder was once a white separatist before he became an anti-choice zealot -- many others have followed the same deadly path.
Posted on Sep 9, 2008, Source: Mother Jones
Remember Bush's signature health care initiative? I need it to survive -- and that's not very reassuring.
Posted on Oct 12, 2006, Source: Mother Jones
The Foley cover-up is just the tip of the iceberg. If the Democrats succeed in retaking Congress this fall, here are five investigations they should get started on right away.
Posted on Jan 7, 2003, Source: Village Voice
Almost half of the projected benefits from President Bush's plan to scrap taxes on dividends will go to the 1 percent of the population whose incomes top $1 million.
Posted on Nov 6, 2002, Source: Village Voice
Voters sent a message Tuesday by showing virtually no opposition to an impending war on Iraq.
Posted on Oct 11, 2002, Source: Village Voice
Be the first on your block to make a buck off of Bush's war on Iraq.
Posted on Aug 26, 2002, Source: Village Voice
The word in Washington is that Bush will invade Iraq right after the fall congressional elections, just in time to get the war out of the way before his own presidential campaign swings into gear.
Posted on Nov 15, 2001, Source: Village Voice
The Pakistani press is reporting numerous massacres, including the wholesale slaughter of 1,700 Taliban troops, by marauding Northern Alliance soldiers.
Posted on Oct 16, 2001, Source: Village Voice
Already precarious from years of internal conflict, Pakistan's alliance with the U.S. could push the country into civil war.
Posted on Aug 1, 2001, Source: Village Voice
In an fruitless effort to erradicate Colombian coca crops, the U.S. continues to fumigate the countryside with toxic herbicides. The EPA is aware of environmental and health risks, but continues to sit on its hands.
Posted on Mar 27, 2001, Source: Village Voice
Abortion foes have mapped a two-part strategy to chip away at reproductive rights. The plan begins with stacking the judiciary with antiabortion judges and ends with a string of state and federal legislation that puts services out of reach for many of America's most vulnerable women.
Posted on Feb 6, 2001, Source: Village Voice
Secretary of the Interior Gale Norton ushers in an America where polluters police themselves and environmentalists go extinct.
Posted on Nov 8, 2000, Source: Village Voice
The recounting of votes in Florida may end up feeding lawsuits in the next few weeks and conspiracy theories for years to come. The only decisive blow was made to the Green party, which was drubbed across the country.
Posted on Sep 29, 2000, Source: Village Voice
To be able to vote their conscience but not spoil the election for Gore, Nader supporters have devised a clever new scheme for swapping votes on Election Day.
