Stories by Rachel Neumann
Rachel Neumann is Rights & Liberties Editor at AlterNet.
Our readers weigh in on whether or not you should have kids.
Posted on Jan 30, 2006
How progressives can jump-start the national conversation about five of the most important issues of 2006.
Posted on Dec 31, 2005
In this exclusive interview, Barbara Ehrenreich talks about the thin line between the middle class and the working poor and why she wants to slap the next person who insists on the power of positive thinking.
Posted on Oct 19, 2005
How can H&M clothes be so cute -- yet so cheap? Afraid of the most probable answer, but too guilty to keep shopping, I decided to take a closer look.
Posted on Jul 1, 2005
MoveOn mobilized hundreds of thousands before the election. This weekend, almost 20,000 people met to tell them what they should be doing next. But can they turn all that energy into a unified progressive vision?
Posted on Nov 23, 2004
Post Election Stress and Trauma Syndrome – PESTS – is sweeping the nation, with strange and often unexpected symptoms. The surprising medical diagnosis: That which doesn't kill us, makes us stronger.
Posted on Nov 9, 2004
An interview with the ACLU's Anthony Romero.
Posted on Oct 15, 2004
The next generation of civil libertarians speaks about how the ACLU is representing them.
Posted on Oct 15, 2004
The demonstrations in New York offer lessons on future strategies to get protesters' messages across to the public.
Posted on Sep 3, 2004
In their creativity, spontaneity, and the lack of clear structure and organization, the protests on Tuesday were a marked contrast from the scene within the Convention.
Posted on Aug 31, 2004
At the March for Our Lives, a thousand people attempt to move a mountain.
Posted on Aug 31, 2004
Earlier debates surrounding the RNC protests became irrelevant as the message of voter dissatisfaction carried the day.
Posted on Aug 29, 2004
Saturday's energetic and diverse reproductive rights march over the Brooklyn Bridge was as dangerous as a child's sippy cup.
Posted on Aug 29, 2004
Taking my 1-year-old daughter to the Republican National Convention requires a giant leap of faith.
Posted on Aug 26, 2004
David Solnit's new book is a manual to help movements develop a strong clear analysis of what's wrong and why, a collection of visions of positive alternatives, and a resource and inspiration for strategies on getting the world we want.
Posted on Jul 22, 2004
Loving Prince as an adolescent and loving him as an adult take on a very different tenor, although the legwarmers remain the same.
Posted on Jul 2, 2004
A traditional Halloween symbolizes all that used to be fun about this country before consumerism became our only god and every stranger became a potential terrorist.
Posted on Oct 30, 2003
An interview with author, columnist, and Bill of Rights defender Nat Hentoff.
Posted on Sep 16, 2003
An interview with author, columnist, and Bill of Rights defender Nat Hentoff.
Posted on Sep 16, 2003
The Bush administration's systematic attack on civil liberties is threatening to move from the aggressive to the surreal.
Posted on May 30, 2003
Saturday's demonstrations had a unified message: a whole lot of people don't want this war and don't believe it is necessary. Will the government listen?
Posted on Jan 19, 2003
Canada's looking better and better, except they won't let you in.
Posted on Jan 8, 2003
Even when they try and comply, immigrants can't get break.
Posted on Dec 20, 2002
Shopping, Shoplifting, and Interrogation
Posted on Dec 6, 2002
It was a rough Monday for fans of civil liberties, as Congress and the courts gave the government power to read your emails, listen in on your phone calls, and look in your drawers.
Posted on Nov 18, 2002
It was a rough week for fans fo civil liberties, as Congress and the courts considered legislation that would give the government easy access to read your emails, listen to your phone calls, and snoop in your drawers.
Posted on Nov 18, 2002
It is possible that Cuba after Castro's death will find itself saddled with a government that mouths the rhetoric of the revolution, but destroys the institutions that make Cuba so remarkable.
Posted on Sep 9, 2002
