Stories by Matthew Wheeland
Matthew Wheeland is a former editor at AlterNet. He is currently managing editor at GreenBiz.com and lives in Berkeley, Calif.
Posted on Jan 29, 2007, Source: AlterNet
An interview with author Michele Simon, whose latest book covers the ruthless manner in which corporate giants market junk foods to boost their profit margin.
Posted on Jun 9, 2006
The government's newest plan in data-mining aims to dig up information about you and your friends.
Posted on Jun 8, 2006
Even with Zarqawi gone, Mr. 36 percent is still in trouble at home...
Posted on Jun 1, 2006
It's almost as if your life depends on it...
Posted on May 12, 2006, Source: AlterNet
The author of a new book about hitchhiking says all the myths about the dangers of thumbing it are just part of our culture of fear.
Posted on May 10, 2006
It's not so much a lecture, as the Times would have it, but more a sermon.
Posted on May 5, 2006
Another scandal-plagued Republican hits the road.
Posted on May 1, 2006
As big as everyone expected these protests to be, they turned out to be even bigger.
Posted on Apr 21, 2006
Is the planet doomed, or are we saved? Depends who you ask.
Posted on Apr 19, 2006
Resignations "rock" the White House.
Posted on Apr 18, 2006
...who are your eco-heroes?
Posted on Apr 14, 2006
... no matter what the cost.
Posted on Apr 7, 2006
This weekend, Chicago becomes a hotspot for the debate on biotechnology.
Posted on Apr 6, 2006
Conservatives may dominate talk radio, but the left owns our nation's chests.
Posted on Apr 3, 2006
Does George Will's column yesterday signify a desperate response to the momentum to fight global warming?
Posted on Mar 31, 2006
Saturday is the day to highlight our absurd addiction to oil.
Posted on Mar 27, 2006
A new survey shows that maybe we have, for both better and worse.
Posted on Mar 20, 2006
At long last, could it be that American drivers are realizing that size matters?
Posted on Mar 13, 2006
Here's a good one: It's packaged with a poison intended to disguise the fact that it's old and/or spoiled.
Posted on Mar 9, 2006
It's like the Dixie Chicks, part two, but this time, Bush loses.
Posted on Mar 7, 2006
Thomas Kinkade may be considerably less wholesome -- in both his business and personal dealings -- than his art would suggest.
Posted on Mar 6, 2006
Put some pants on!
Posted on Mar 1, 2006
Big surprise: turns out the president lied -- repeatedly -- when he said no one predicted it.
Posted on Feb 24, 2006
Eight lucky meatpackers are meatpackers no longer.
Posted on Feb 21, 2006
… and it's not a pretty story.
Posted on Feb 17, 2006
At which time Harry Whittington apologized to the veep and his family. Come again?
Posted on Feb 15, 2006, Source: AlterNet
The history of American elections is not pretty: Voting irregularities have been widespread since long before Bush v. Gore, but now is the time to reverse course.
Posted on Feb 7, 2006
An Iranian newspaper leaps into the fray, saying their Holocaust cartoons will test the West's embrace of freedom of expression.
Posted on Feb 6, 2006, Source: AlterNet
The record-breaking profits recently announced by ExxonMobil and Chevron come hand-in-glove with exceptionally -- and artifically -- high energy prices.
Posted on Feb 3, 2006
The makers of Teflon seem to be defensive about something…
Posted on Jan 31, 2006
Congressional staffers are using Wikipedia to attack and revile their bosses' opponents.
Posted on Jan 27, 2006, Source: AlterNet
The new documentary 'The Real Dirt on Farmer John' offers a wonderfully eccentric look at the past and future of the family farm.
Posted on Jan 19, 2006
A smattering of interesting news items today, including the Vatican's stance on intelligent design, drunken animals, an end to the chili-finger case, and bin Laden's truce offer.
Posted on Jan 17, 2006
And the 'culture of life' is no doubt up in arms…
Posted on Jan 12, 2006, Source: AlterNet
The environmental group's new television series dishes the dirt on what happened to rescue workers after Ground Zero.
Posted on Jan 11, 2006
... Because of a new EPA policy
Posted on Jan 4, 2006
The government agency in charge of mine safety has been weakened by the GOP's business-friendly (and people-hostile) politics.
Posted on Jan 3, 2006
Of the many political words and phrases repeated ad nauseam last year, here are a select few that deserve to be banished from the lexicon.
Posted on Dec 21, 2005
This time, one of the funniest shows of all time may be resurrected.
Posted on Dec 16, 2005
A new trend in the offing: pictures and text about the "unicorns of the sea."
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