Stories by Alexander Zaitchik
Alexander Zaitchik is a Brooklyn-based freelance journalist and AlterNet contributing writer.
Third Way is drenched in corporate money, tangled in ties to big business and bent on Clintonian triangulation. How dare it call itself progressive?
Posted on Jun 30, 2009
My account of a night high on the "Ayahuasca madre" with the Ashaninka tribe deep in the Amazon rainforest.
Posted on May 22, 2009
Understanding FOX News' biggest star.
Posted on Apr 27, 2009
Who could be against helping veterans, the elderly, youth and the planet? 168 Congressional Republicans and scores of the lunatic fringe.
Posted on Apr 18, 2009
The tea parties are AstroTurf -- fake grassroots. But there is a real movement growing against corporate greed and government malfeasance.
Posted on Apr 15, 2009
Obama has been devoting time to talk about defense spending reform, and has assembled a team to make sure it happens.
Posted on Mar 17, 2009
Millions of boomers born into the dawn of the largest economic expansion in history are being forced to re-imagine their retirement futures.
Posted on Mar 6, 2009
Can it be long before the entire country is tweeting away in the din of a giant turd-covered silicon aviary?
Posted on Feb 21, 2009
Here are five significant under-the-radar things to be grateful for in the post-Bush era.
Posted on Feb 20, 2009
He's been a governor, an inspiring grassroots hero, a reformer of the Democratic Party -- will he join Obama's White House or head back home?
Posted on Feb 9, 2009
Cultural panic over pollution in the sky and changing weather patterns has given rise to a peculiar conspiracy theory about jet plane exhaust.
Posted on Jan 27, 2009
A new wave of progressive Jewish activists are challenging the dominance of AIPAC and other hawkish groups on Gaza, Israeli settlers and even Iran.
Posted on Jan 12, 2009
Obama was frank about his own drug use, so why isn't he more honest about what a disaster war on drugs has been?
Posted on Dec 23, 2008
There’s no way around it: nuclear weapons are scary. Will fear drive Americans away from Obama’s arms control agenda?
Posted on Dec 16, 2008
Among the big losers in November were the NRA and the myth of the once-feared "NRA Voter." Reform of our gun laws is on the way.
Posted on Dec 4, 2008
A huge coalition of progressive and union forces is gearing up for political battle on the health care front.
Posted on Dec 1, 2008
Obama has picked too many failures who are in the process of recalibrating everything they've ever believed.
Posted on Nov 25, 2008
Voters rejected right-wing attacks on reproductive and labor rights in California, Colorado and South Dakota.
Posted on Nov 7, 2008
It must come as a surprise to the Republicans that the public favors Obama's style of wealth spreading by a whopping margin.
Posted on Nov 1, 2008
Minnesota GOP senator Norm Coleman has engaged in McCain-style smear efforts against Franken, and is paying the price in the polls.
Posted on Oct 23, 2008
Like most people I know in their 20s and 30s, it takes a stretch of the imagination to understand that I have a stake in the national economy.
Posted on Oct 13, 2008
Why is everyone from John McCain to Barack Obama in favor of a plan that could launch a new nuclear arms race?
Posted on Sep 10, 2008
With key medical marijuana ballot initiatives likely to pass, and a more pot-friendly majority in Congress, there is room for optimism.
Posted on Jun 3, 2008
Barr emerges as the Libertarian nominee, and he's already positioning to ride on Ron Paul's popular wave of conservative dissatisfaction.
Posted on May 27, 2008
Daniel Radosh takes readers on a trip to the parallel universe of Christian pop culture -- be prepared for a very weird, tame ride.
Posted on Apr 22, 2008
The Dem senator is an advocate for Bush's domestic spying efforts and cheerleader for telecom immunity: Is he a clownish dupe, or is his brain addled?
Posted on Apr 7, 2008
It isn't Huckabee's Iowa win that's packing events in N.H. -- it's the promise of seeing B-movie tough guy Chuck Norris.
Posted on Jan 8, 2008
The new 'Beowulf' flick combines a bizarre mix of homoerotic imagery, locker room machismo and total carnage.
Posted on Nov 27, 2007
The overblown "controversies" over John Edwards' $400 haircut, hedge fund work and real estate dealings are largely the product of one reporter at the
Washington Post who hides his grudges behind "fair and balanced" journalism.
Posted on Aug 4, 2007
By hyping the so-called first massive cyberstrike by a superpower on a tiny, defenseless neighbor, the Western media have played into a sleazy Estonian PR stunt, designed to deflect the world's attention from the country's mistreatment of its Russian-speaking minority.
Posted on Jun 2, 2007
A grassroots movement is forming in which anti-immigrant rhetoric dovetails with the odes to God and country that have long constituted conservative evangelical boilerplate.
Posted on Jan 29, 2007
The Doomsday Clock now stands at five minutes to 12. Here's how the 110th Congress can start pushing the minute-hand back.
Posted on Jan 22, 2007
Key Democrats including Nancy Pelosi, John Murtha and Ted Kennedy have spoken out against increased defense spending and troop escalation. Will they back up their words with actions?
Posted on Jan 10, 2007
After a study revealed that less than 10 percent of evangelicals were Bible literate, James Dobson's Focus on the Family is desperately taking a two-day multimedia Bible boot camp on the road, selling "truth" for $179 a seat.
Posted on Dec 4, 2006
Across America, right-wing radicals are running for everything from national political office to a county mosquito control board.
Posted on Oct 20, 2006
Pat Buchanan's latest book is a white nationalist rant -- but that hasn't stopped it from climbing the best-seller charts.
Posted on Oct 9, 2006
Conservative evangelical Christians are getting worried about the fate of God's creation. Can the greening of the GOP base happen fast enough to derail the party's scorched-earth plans for Bush II?
Posted on Dec 17, 2004
CNNi, the cable channel for the international consuming class, forces the Brave New Economy down viewers throats while posing half-heartedly as news.
Posted on Dec 8, 2000
