Stories by Joshua Holland
Joshua Holland is an editor and senior writer at AlterNet.
Wild, over-the-top rhetoric and bizarre conspiracy theories about health reform aren't just coming from the right-wing blogs and talk-radio loudmouths.
Posted on Nov 7, 2009, Source: AlterNet
There's momentum to repair our fractured health care system -- but activism is desperately needed to keep the process honest.
Posted on Nov 3, 2009, Source: AlterNet
An interview with Prins, former managing director at Goldman Sachs, now a razor-sharp financial muckraker and author of the new book, "It Takes a Pillage."
Posted on Oct 30, 2009, Source: AlterNet
Obama's national security adviser will keynote the inaugural conference of the moderate advocacy group J-Street, an alternative to Washington's hawkish Israel lobby.
Posted on Oct 26, 2009, Source: AlterNet
Once a sane advocate and even community-minded organization, the Chamber of Commerce has been captured by the Republican Party.
Posted on Oct 15, 2009, Source: AlterNet
Just a few years ago, we wouldn't have known there was a "swine flu."
Posted on Sep 25, 2009, Source: AlterNet
An incredibly powerful new documentary finally lets those who've lived it tell the story -- from the "creative" financiers to the home buyers duped by brokers.
Posted on Sep 5, 2009, Source: AlterNet
My life has sucked significantly more than yours has over the past two weeks -- here's why.
Posted on Sep 3, 2009, Source: AlterNet
Some can't reconcile what they believe about the propaganda that is fed to them with their own positive experiences with public programs like Medicare.
Posted on Aug 27, 2009, Source: AlterNet
Those raucous health-care town halls aren't over yet. That's where you come in.
Posted on Aug 26, 2009, Source: AlterNet
We are at a crucial moment in the health care debate -- Obama needs pressure from all of us to keep the public option as part of his agenda.
Posted on Aug 18, 2009, Source: AlterNet
Forget the fearmongering scare tactics of the right, here's how your life will actually be better.
Posted on Aug 14, 2009, Source: AlterNet
Misleading people is really the only option for those bent on killing the reform movement.
Posted on Aug 4, 2009, Source: AlterNet
If we let these powerful interests get their way, we'll see more outlandish increases in premiums and millions more people being denied care.
Posted on Jul 29, 2009, Source: AlterNet
Charging high taxes on smokes is the only way to push people to quit. And I don't
want the individual freedom to be suicidally stupid.
Posted on Jul 24, 2009, Source: AlterNet
MJ Rosenberg buys into the 'Iran as existential threat' frame.
Posted on Jul 17, 2009, Source: AlterNet
The debate among progressive health reformers has been sometimes nasty, but they have more in common than they might think.
Posted on Jul 13, 2009, Source: AlterNet
On immigration law, and his 'anchor baby' nonsense, Bibray makes Ron Paul look like a constitutional scholar.
Posted on Jul 8, 2009, Source: AlterNet
Progressive leader and health crusader Dean on what it's going to take to overhaul our health care system.
Posted on Jul 8, 2009, Source: AlterNet
Controlling health care costs isn't just necessary for the health of our economy -- it'd also be likely to boost personal incomes.
Posted on Jun 29, 2009, Source: AlterNet
A narrative is emerging that we're seeing the first signs that a recovery is around the corner, but the reality is less encouraging.
Posted on Jun 22, 2009, Source: AlterNet
Understanding the dangerous worldview that led to the murder of an innocent doctor and an attack at the Holocaust Museum.
Posted on Jun 12, 2009, Source: AlterNet
On issue after issue, significant majorities of Americans favor progressive solutions to the nation's problems and reject the right's worldview.
Posted on May 30, 2009, Source: AlterNet
Millions of dollars will be poured into deceptive media ads by the health care industry -- will you step up to stop them?
Posted on May 21, 2009, Source: AlterNet
Conspiracy theories often pre-empt substantive analysis of the real political structures that shape our society.
Posted on May 18, 2009, Source: AlterNet
Corporate Dems are fawning over the industry's "promise" to hold down costs. A broad progressive coalition is pushing for a real solution.
Posted on May 13, 2009, Source: AlterNet
The right-wing pundits who seized on the swine flu to push their anti-immigrant rhetoric are employing an ancient racist tactic.
Posted on Apr 29, 2009, Source: AlterNet
The Obama administration is giving mixed signals on its pot policies despite a tidal shift in social views on legalizing marijuana.
Posted on Apr 28, 2009, Source: AlterNet
A new study finds that "legal" and "illegal", "citizen" and "resident," are distinctions without difference for poorer Latinos in today's Deep South.
Posted on Apr 23, 2009, Source: AlterNet
The one argument in the immigration debate with absolutely no merit is that the system is fine.
Posted on Mar 30, 2009, Source: AlterNet
In his recent address to Congress, Barack Obama didn't mention immigration once -- what does it mean for the prospects for reform?
Posted on Mar 13, 2009, Source: AlterNet
There is nothing more terrifying to corporate America than the prospect of dealing with its workforce on an even playing field.
Posted on Mar 11, 2009, Source: AlterNet
Barack Obama's first budget proposal fulfills several of the promises he made during the 2008 campaign, but the Corporate Right is poised for a fight.
Posted on Feb 27, 2009, Source: AlterNet
If it were looted, it might produce enough in fat management fees alone to resuscitate Wall Street's ailing financial giants.
Posted on Feb 26, 2009, Source: AlterNet
In a short period of months, the entire system of global capitalism has screeched to a halt. No one knows what happens next.
Posted on Feb 24, 2009, Source: AlterNet
Failure to act decisively over the collapse of our banking system could mire the US in a protracted slump, like Japan's "lost decade" in the '90s.
Posted on Feb 16, 2009, Source: AlterNet
Dean Baker, one of few economists who warned of the housing market's impending crash, discusses where we should go from here.
Posted on Feb 12, 2009, Source: AlterNet
Americans are rightfully angry about the economic decline, but with a few small exceptions, quietly so. Why? It depends on whom you ask.
Posted on Feb 3, 2009, Source: AlterNet
It's the best possible course to rescue our economy at this point; all the other options would be disastrous.
Posted on Jan 30, 2009, Source: AlterNet
What if the entire tale of the Jewish Diaspora is historically wrong?
Posted on Jan 28, 2009, Source: AlterNet
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