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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
While bachelor parties carry on a time-honored tradition -- of getting plastered -- the female equivalent, bachelorette parties, have no such rich history.
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?
