Stories by Alexander Zaitchik
Alexander Zaitchik is a Brooklyn-based freelance journalist and AlterNet contributing writer. His book, Common Nonsense: Glenn Beck and the Triumph of Ignorance, is published by Wiley & Sons.
Posted on Jul 28, 2011, Source: AlterNet
Students at ultra-right Harding University planned a conference on poverty, but school administrators had other ideas.
Posted on Jul 8, 2011, Source: Southern Poverty Law Center
Around the U.S., state legislators are proposing laws influenced by radical-right ideas. Most are flatly unconstitutional.
Posted on May 17, 2011, Source: AlterNet
Hitchens underwent waterboarding to experience the torture of terror suspects -- now dying of cancer, he could help the cause of psychedelic research with a dose of psilocybin.
Posted on May 10, 2011, Source: AlterNet
Andrew Breitbart serves up thin gruel in his clownish memoir-manifesto, "Righteous Indignation."
Posted on Mar 22, 2011, Source: SPLC Intelligence Report
With the rise of the right, the National Center for Constitutional Studies' bizarre version of U.S. history is gaining adherents.
Posted on Feb 21, 2011, Source: AlterNet
An interview with co-founder of the Yippies and legendary satirist Krassner on his new book and his recent forays into journalism and activism.
Posted on Feb 9, 2011, Source: AlterNet
Has Beck gone too far even for Fox News and his conservative viewers?
Posted on Sep 11, 2010, Source: SPLC's Hate Watch
Robert Rodriguez's new film is madcap Mexploitation, but the paranoid crowd sees propaganda for the coming "race war."
Posted on Aug 24, 2010, Source: SPLC's Hate Watch
Despite his lame efforts to try to capitalize on the MLK legacy at an upcoming DC rally, Glenn Beck cannot hide his deep-seated racism.
Posted on Aug 15, 2010, Source: Southern Poverty Law Center
The American radical right has to be considered a strong contender for the title of modern conspiracy champion.
Posted on Aug 7, 2010, Source: AlterNet
From accounts of prison life to tales of drug smuggling, the Wikileaks memos bring the Afghan war home.
Posted on Jul 8, 2010, Source: AlterNet
Beck is making a grotesque attempt to co-opt the legacy of MLK. "We will reclaim the civil rights moment. We are on the right side of history."
Posted on May 6, 2010, Source: Killing the Buddha
Glenn Beck's strange TV: Mormon masterpiece theater.
Posted on Apr 30, 2010, Source: AlterNet
Over 10,000 protesters gathered in New York's financial district to demand financial reform.
Posted on Apr 12, 2010, Source: AlterNet
If anything can make you forget 3,500 Republicans chomping reindeer jerky, it's Sarah Palin screaming "Who dat!"
Posted on Apr 10, 2010, Source: AlterNet
The world of medicine may finally be ready to catch back up with psychedelic pioneers, whose work was rejected a half-century ago.
Posted on Mar 31, 2010, Source: AlterNet
For years, Sallie Mae fed on taxpayers to finance Republican campaigns and private golf courses for their executives. No more.
Posted on Mar 17, 2010, Source: AlterNet
Tax preparation giants are making a killing on short-term, high-interest, fee-laden loans on tax returns.
Posted on Mar 11, 2010, Source: AlterNet
The Tea Party that worships Sarah Palin and screams for Barack Obama's birth certificate doesn't merit comparison to positive social movements of the 1960s.
Posted on Mar 4, 2010, Source: AlterNet
Six months after Gateway Pundit forced Jones' White House resignation over a 9/11 petition, Beck revives ridiculous red-baiting act.
Posted on Jan 28, 2010, Source: Killing the Buddha
Author Mitch Horowitz's new book unleashes America's occult past.
Posted on Nov 26, 2009, Source: Killing the Buddha
Even by the popsicle-stick standards of its genre, the disaster movie 2012 is so dumb you actually want everyone to die.
Posted on Nov 5, 2009, Source: AlterNet
Beck described SEIU nurse care as "amazing" after his inflamed appendix was removed.
Posted on Aug 24, 2009, Source: AlterNet
Bob Grant taught a generation of conservative talkers how to channel white rage, until a listener boycott helped push him off the air. Now he's back.
Posted on Jul 7, 2009, Source: AlterNet
Father of the Gaia Theory, James Lovelock says we can't stop climate change, but that humanity will continue in some smaller form.
Posted on Jun 30, 2009, Source: AlterNet
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 May 22, 2009, Source: Killing the Buddha
My account of a night high on the "Ayahuasca madre" with the Ashaninka tribe deep in the Amazon rainforest.
Posted on Apr 27, 2009, Source: AlterNet
Understanding FOX News' biggest star.
Posted on Apr 18, 2009, Source: AlterNet
Who could be against helping veterans, the elderly, youth and the planet? 168 Congressional Republicans and scores of the lunatic fringe.
Posted on Apr 15, 2009, Source: AlterNet
The tea parties are AstroTurf -- fake grassroots. But there is a real movement growing against corporate greed and government malfeasance.
Posted on Mar 17, 2009, Source: AlterNet
Obama has been devoting time to talk about defense spending reform, and has assembled a team to make sure it happens.
Posted on Mar 6, 2009, Source: AlterNet
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 Feb 21, 2009, Source: AlterNet
Can it be long before the entire country is tweeting away in the din of a giant turd-covered silicon aviary?
Posted on Feb 20, 2009, Source: AlterNet
Here are five significant under-the-radar things to be grateful for in the post-Bush era.
Posted on Feb 9, 2009, Source: AlterNet
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 Jan 27, 2009, Source: AlterNet
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 12, 2009, Source: AlterNet
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 Dec 23, 2008, Source: AlterNet
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 16, 2008, Source: AlterNet
There’s no way around it: nuclear weapons are scary. Will fear drive Americans away from Obama’s arms control agenda?
Posted on Dec 4, 2008, Source: AlterNet
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.
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