Stories by Adele M. Stan
Adele M. Stan is AlterNet's Washington correspondent. She also writes for the AFL-CIO Now blog. Follow her on Twitter: www.twitter.com/addiestan
Posted on Feb 7, 2012, Source: AlterNet
Birth control is under attack by all of the candidates competing for the Republican presidential nomination.
Posted on Jan 31, 2012, Source: AlterNet
In what may go down in history as one of the weirdest post-primary speeches ever, Gingrich seems to declare war on the Republican Party.
Posted on Jan 24, 2012, Source: AlterNet
In his State of the Union message, Obama succeeded in painting the GOP as obstructionist, and came down hard on the banks.
Posted on Jan 9, 2012, Source: AlterNet
Media create the storyline, choosing which timeworn nuggets to play up, which controversies to amplify and which extras get selected to play the role of the 'typical' voter.
Posted on Jan 4, 2012, Source: AlterNet
Romney and Santorum each finished with 25 percent of the vote, and Paul won 21 percent. But these numbers don't get at the underlying dynamics.
Posted on Dec 29, 2011, Source: AlterNet
Paul's endorsement from a pastor who wants the death penalty for gays exposes his links to radical Christian Reconstructionists.
Posted on Dec 19, 2011, Source: AlterNet
Should Ron Paul win the first-in-the-nation presidential contest, the pundits will have egg on their faces, and Paul will have an interesting path in front of him.
Posted on Dec 4, 2011, Source: AlterNet
A spate of online disinformation, bullying and outright calls for the destruction of recall petitions raise the specter of fraud in the Wisconsin recall petition drive.
Posted on Nov 28, 2011, Source: AlterNet
Sexual harassment may be ethically worse than adultery, but for evangelical voters, Herman Cain's alleged affair may be the greater sin.
Posted on Nov 20, 2011, Source: AlterNet
In an Iowa megachurch, Herman Cain, Michele Bachmann, Rick Perry and Ron Paul put Christianity front and center.
Posted on Nov 15, 2011, Source: AlterNet
It wasn't just Libya policy that left Cain tongue-tied before the Journal Sentinel ed board: He didn't want to talk about the Koch-linked Prosperity 101 program.
Posted on Nov 4, 2011, Source: AlterNet
Two days after meeting with GOP kingmaker DeMint, Herman Cain shows his love to the billionaire Koch brothers, while sex harassment allegations win him GOP hearts.
Posted on Oct 31, 2011, Source: AlterNet
Sexual harassment allegations aren't the only thing troubling Cain's campaign--there's also the dirty politics of his campaign manager, Mark Block.
Posted on Oct 30, 2011, Source: AlterNet
The ethical problems posed by Thomas' involvement in the Citizens United case hardly mark the end of questionable behavior by Thomas and his wife, Ginni.
Posted on Oct 21, 2011, Source: AlterNet
Cain's campaign staff say he wasn't an employee of the Tea Party group founded by David Koch. But he did have a desk and an email address at its headquarters.
Posted on Oct 19, 2011, Source: AlterNet
Perry was determined not to bumble, and came off looking nasty. Romney got rattled and put his hands on Perry. And nobody asked Cain about his connections to David Koch.
Posted on Oct 14, 2011, Source: AlterNet
As the GOP campaign progresses, David Koch, and his brother, Charles -- two of the richest men in America -- will likely be felt in ways large and small.
Posted on Oct 11, 2011, Source: AlterNet
After the spectacle of a weekend of Mormon-bashing by anti-Romney Christian evangelicals, Bachmann lays the anti-Christ trip on the only black guy in the race.
Posted on Oct 9, 2011, Source: AlterNet
At last weekend's Values Voter Summit, they came not to praise Mitt Romney, but to bury him.
Posted on Oct 4, 2011, Source: AlterNet
Jones talked to AlterNet about the growing social movements for change, running real progressives in 2012, and how we can train a million new leaders.
Posted on Sep 27, 2011, Source: AlterNet
Neither Romney nor Perry has done the one thing that truly excites the Koch brothers and their fellow deep-pocketed Christie fans: take on the public sector unions in a big way.
Posted on Sep 16, 2011, Source: AlterNet
For conservatives, Perry victorious would mean nothing less than the South as a phoenix in the form of an eagle, rising from the ashes of a short-lived and fallen nation.
Posted on Sep 12, 2011, Source: AlterNet
Tea Party Express is not a grassroots group; it's a registered political PAC that funds right-wing candidates. And CNN is helping them.
Posted on Sep 11, 2011, Source: AlterNet
On September 11, 2001, I was lucky. I didn't lose anybody close to me -- except my country and the person I had been before.
Posted on Sep 7, 2011, Source: AlterNet
Texas Gov. Rick Perry's debut on the GOP presidential debate stage offered a scenery-chewing performance, and an enthusiastic reception for the executions on his watch.
Posted on Sep 4, 2011, Source: AlterNet
He's an unabashedly right-wing, cowboy-boot-wearing, twang-talkin' and farm-bred kind of a fella. But that doesn't mean he's stupid. Call it smarts -- cowboy smarts.
Posted on Aug 26, 2011, Source: AlterNet
He's anti-woman, anti-gay, anti-black, anti-senior-citizen, anti-equality and anti-education, and that's just the start.
Posted on Aug 22, 2011, Source: AlterNet
High-profile attacks on progressive reporting about Christian dominionism speak to the power of truth-telling.
Posted on Aug 16, 2011, Source: AlterNet
Though it has shaped American politics for the last 40 years, the religious right still baffles reporters.
Posted on Aug 14, 2011, Source: AlterNet
The latest installment of Brave New Foundation's documentary series "Koch Brothers Exposed" reveals the Kochs' assault on public education.
Posted on Aug 13, 2011, Source: AlterNet
Those who expect Edwards to play from the margins to which left-wing politicians are frequently relegated will find themselves disappointed. She came to get stuff done.
Posted on Aug 9, 2011, Source: AlterNet
Last night's recall elections were the Republicans' to lose. And they lost two seats, while Democrats lost nothing.
Posted on Aug 2, 2011, Source: AlterNet
Remember when the Tea Party movement was supposed to be just all about the size of government, and not about those pesky "social" issues?
Posted on Aug 1, 2011, Source: AlterNet
Some of the worst brinksmanship in the debt ceiling fight was driven by the most far-right members of the GOP majority in the House of Representatives.
Posted on Jul 29, 2011, Source: AlterNet
Even if John Boehner wins a vote on the debt ceiling, Tea Party-allied members of Congress may end his tenure as House speaker.
Posted on Jul 23, 2011, Source: AlterNet
The Tea Party doesn't care if it has to destroy the United States in order to grab the levers of GOP machinery.
Posted on Jul 19, 2011, Source: AlterNet
Rupert Murdoch's refusal to take responsibility for the phone-hacking scandal now roiling his British newspapers exposes News Corp's culture of blame-laying.
Posted on Jul 18, 2011, Source: AlterNet
Here's an incomplete guide to the villains in the drama that threatens to take down the Murdoch empire.
Posted on Jul 18, 2011, Source: AlterNet
Does the draconian mandate of Old Testament law drive Michele and Marcus Bachmann's war on LGBT people?
Posted on Jul 14, 2011, Source: AlterNet
In Britain, Murdoch was the biggest cheese of all, until his readers turned on him. Amid allegations of phone-hacking of 9/11 victims, with the American people do the same?
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