Stories by Adele M. Stan
Adele M. Stan is AlterNet's Washington bureau chief.
Palin's speech was her boilerplate of non sequiturs and cognitive disconnections, but in the interview that followed, she revealed her hand in a game for the presidency.
Posted on Feb 8, 2010, Source: AlterNet
At a press conference where a gay Ugandan was too frightened to show his face to the media, a member of Obama's religion council and other clergy threw down the gauntlet.
Posted on Feb 3, 2010, Source: AlterNet
The prayer breakfast is a display of power for an underground religious group that often shapes U.S. foreign policy in ways that sometimes conflict with our policy goals.
Posted on Feb 1, 2010, Source: AlterNet
The health care battle between Republicans and Democrats has looked like a fight 'between the crazies and the lazies,' Grayson said. Now it's time to get serious.
Posted on Jan 28, 2010, Source: AlterNet
When Media Matters issued a report detailing the scant coverage Fox News programs gave the Haiti earthquake, Fox host Greg Gutfeld went homophobic on the watchdog group.
Posted on Jan 22, 2010, Source: AlterNet
A little-discussed provision of the Senate bill allows insurers to penalize subscribers by hundreds -- and even thousands -- of dollars for not meeting certain "wellness targets."
Posted on Jan 12, 2010, Source: AlterNet
After the murder of George Tiller, Missy Smith said it was time to 'get' another abortion provider. At a center led by Catholic bishops, she will make her case again.
Posted on Jan 7, 2010, Source: AlterNet
The Millennial Decade screwed with our heads and destroyed our national identity. Are we in for a cataclysmic century?
Posted on Dec 30, 2009, Source: AlterNet
A promised protest on Capitol Hill by right-wingers opposed to health-care reform doesn't happen; Dick Armey's speech at National Press Club canceled.
Posted on Dec 16, 2009, Source: AlterNet
Something is afoot among the conservative base -- voting Republican doesn't seem to cut it anymore, and incumbents are getting nervous.
Posted on Dec 8, 2009, Source: AlterNet
Presented by FreedomWorks, the front group that organized the 9/12 March, a new documentary on the tea parties attempts to suggest that the protests were spontaneous.
Posted on Dec 4, 2009, Source: AlterNet
The economic meltdown has hit non-college grads much harder than the educated. And conservatives are very good at exploiting their anger and unease.
Posted on Nov 28, 2009, Source: AlterNet
Harry Reid may have gotten the Senate to move his health-care bill forward, but a handful of conservative Democrats could still keep the bill from getting a final vote.
Posted on Nov 23, 2009, Source: AlterNet
First they threatened to take down health-care reform over abortion coverage. Now they're threatening services to the sick and poor of Washington, D.C., over same-sex marriage.
Posted on Nov 16, 2009, Source: AlterNet
It took a virulently anti-choice measure to pass the House's health care reform legislation. Progressives are strategizing how to keep it from the final bill.
Posted on Nov 12, 2009, Source: AlterNet
Just as the GOP candidate has for more than 100 years, Dede Scozzafava was supposed to win the congressional seat in New York's 23rd district. Then Palin stepped in.
Posted on Nov 2, 2009, Source: AlterNet
The Family has spent decades consolidating power within the GOP and may have come to dominate the party even among those who do not belong to the cult.
Posted on Oct 20, 2009, Source: AlterNet
The Tea Party movement has the juice as the religious right is on the wane. Survival may mean joining up, but that presents an image problem for Christians.
Posted on Sep 22, 2009, Source: AlterNet
The Baucus health care proposal is a terrible bill. And the Senate's foremost health care expert is having none of it.
Posted on Sep 18, 2009, Source: AlterNet
The men behind the religious right make a comeback with the Tea Party movement.
Posted on Sep 14, 2009, Source: AlterNet
He was mentored by notorious racist Strom Thurmond, he's taken hundreds of thousands from the health industry, and "Joe" isn't even his real name.
Posted on Sep 11, 2009, Source: AlterNet
At a joint session of Congress that rang like town halls, Obama comes out swinging for progressive ideals; yet his stance on the public option still is unclear.
Posted on Sep 10, 2009, Source: AlterNet
How Americans for Prosperity, the astroturf group that organized town-hall thuggery, teamed up with Fox News to force out Van Jones.
Posted on Sep 8, 2009, Source: AlterNet
In his
Meet the Press appearance, presidential adviser David Axelrod refused to say if Obama will trade away the public heath care plan.
Posted on Sep 7, 2009, Source: AlterNet
You thought they were just unhinged. But here's what they're really saying to the armed and dangerous.
Posted on Sep 2, 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
Burrowing inside the radical right's gathering of astroturfers and mouthpieces, AlterNet Reporter Adele Stan discovers what makes the anti-health reform machine tick.
Posted on Aug 20, 2009, Source: AlterNet
Strapped with a loaded gun, William Kostric carried a message from the GOP's "break Obama" campaign.
Posted on Aug 12, 2009, Source: AlterNet
How the health-care industry, the GOP and one media mogul made common cause with the anti-government fringe.
Posted on Aug 10, 2009, Source: AlterNet
As society's shape-shifters, bisexuals mess with everybody's idea of sexual orientation.
Posted on Aug 5, 2009, Source: AlterNet
Media bigs seem to have reached the conclusion that hatred sells, so they're embracing their inner sexists and inner racists.
Posted on Aug 1, 2009, Source: AlterNet
At Wednesday's press conference, Obama said the "stars are aligned" for health reform and tackled the racial injustice typified by prof's arrest.
Posted on Jul 23, 2009, Source: AlterNet
If Obama and the Democrats get health care reform done, the Republican Party is finished in the next election. So it's pulling out the stops.
Posted on Jul 21, 2009, Source: AlterNet
The reviewer finds herself surrounded, not by Jimmy Choo-clad starlets, but by flip-flop-wearing interns and men donning khakis and polo shirts.
Posted on Jul 18, 2009, Source: AlterNet
Infamous Operation Rescue founder Randall Terry employs his gory protest tactics in Washington to assail Sotomayor's record on reproductive rights.
Posted on Jul 14, 2009, Source: AlterNet
We all say we want to go green, but do we all see the same kinds of change when we imagine an eco-friendly economy?
Posted on Aug 23, 2008, Source: Media Consortium
The anti-choice group Feminists for Life is dangerously clever and well-connected.
Posted on Oct 24, 2006, Source: The American Prospect
