Stories by Michelle Chihara
Can Harry compete with his own hype?
Posted on Jun 16, 2003
Robert Fuller's new book 'Somebodies and Nobodies' hopes to do for society's lower ranks what Betty Friedan did for women.
Posted on Apr 28, 2003
Regardless of what you think of Moore's new film, "Bowling for Columbine," it’s impossible to see it without wanting to talk about it afterward.
Posted on Oct 14, 2002
The anti-corporate activist and author talks about how to create a world free of neo-liberal market orthodoxy and full of vibrant, local participatory democracies.
Posted on Sep 25, 2002
A new report says farmers and workers who grow coffee beans from South America and Asia are slipping into dire poverty while U.S coffee giants grow rich off their labor. Two fair-trade campaigns hope to reverse the trend.
Posted on Sep 19, 2002
Married priests are an organized, vocal and dedicated group. Though at the margins of Catholic life in the U.S., they may represent the Church's best hope for the future.
Posted on Jul 1, 2002
A record-breaking 1.5 billion people, about one in four of the planet's population, chose the final match of this year's World Cup over all else -- over sex, over sleep.
Posted on Jun 28, 2002
Kevin Phillip’s new book, "Wealth and Democracy," uses the lessons of history to show why today’s dramatic economic problems aren’t that much different from yesterday's.
Posted on Jun 10, 2002
Why does everyone insist on bashing online personal ads? The truth is, online and off, bad dates happen.
Posted on May 21, 2002
The University of Missouri, Kansas City, watched $100,000 in funding disappear when the religious right went after Professor Harris Mirkin. Here, the man labeled as the "pedophilia scholar" clears up the misconceptions.
Posted on May 20, 2002
Summertime's almost here -- and the blockbuster movie pickin' ain't easy. AlterNet saves the day with a sneak preview list that feeds our jones for action, schmaltz and starpower.
Posted on May 7, 2002
Greg Palast, the "best investigative journalist you've never heard of," makes headlines in Britain all the time. So why doesn't he get published in the States?
Posted on Apr 17, 2002
By trying to censor Michael Moore's new book, publishing giant HarperCollins gave media-savvy Moore the perfect platform to harass his real arch-enemy -- George W. Bush.
Posted on Mar 7, 2002
Nell Minow leads a double life. By day, she's The Movie Mom, a kid's film critic and radio personality. By night, she investigates corporations like Global Crossing and Enron.
Posted on Feb 26, 2002
From paperweights to "Lay'd Off" t-shirts to a bound volume of its "Code of Ethics," Enron memorabilia is selling like hot cakes on the Web.
Posted on Feb 4, 2002
Enron's meltdown is more than a lone business scandal, it's an indictment of our entire financial and political system. This smart, simple Enron primer explains why.
Posted on Feb 1, 2002
What does email, viral marketing, nailing Nike on sweatshop labor and a Web site for romantic rejections have in common? Jonah Peretti, who talks here about why the Internet is still a subversive medium.
Posted on Jan 23, 2002
After 15 years of building their multi-billion dollar empire by marketing schlock to young girls, can tween twins Mary-Kate & Ashley Olsen survive in the ruthless adult market?
Posted on Jan 21, 2002
Everyone professes to love free speech, just not in their backyard. While the debate rages over exactly when and where speech should be free, the bigger questions are going un-discussed.
Posted on Dec 26, 2001
Actor Danny Glover is getting slammed by right-wing talk show hosts as "un-American" after saying that no one should receive the death penalty, not even Osama bin Laden.
Posted on Dec 19, 2001
In an act of guilty patriotism, liberal SUV owners are finally swapping their gas-guzzling behemoths to help reduce America's unsustainable dependence on foreign oil.
Posted on Nov 28, 2001
Dissent in the war against terrorism is being labeled as unpatriotic. But love of country doesn't have to be uncritical, or bumper-sticker ready. The daughter of a Japanese American interned in the camps during WW II explains why.
Posted on Nov 19, 2001
On Nov. 16, the wave of Pottermania crests with the release of the first Harry Potter movie. Time to say goodbye to innocence, and hello to merchandizing.
Posted on Nov 8, 2001
While bachelor parties carry on a time-honored tradition -- of getting plastered -- the female equivalent, bachelorette parties, have no such rich history.
Posted on May 8, 2000
Hollywood seems to have caught "yellow fever" -- obsession with beautiful Asian women. It could mean more diversity on the screen, but why must all these ladies fall into the two slots of Asian female stereotype: the Dragon Lady or the Lotus Blossom?
Posted on Apr 1, 2000
