Stories by Adele M. Stan
Adele M. Stan is AlterNet's Washington correspondent. Follow her on Twitter: www.twitter.com/addiestan
Posted on May 22, 2012, Source: AlterNet
Even if the Obama campaign's anti-Bain offensive is nothing more than a bid to ensure a win for its candidate, in the long run, the campaign is doing America a service.
Posted on May 4, 2012, Source: AlterNet
The Ron Paul campaign's latest hijinks have Mitt Romney operatives in a tizzy.
Posted on May 3, 2012, Source: AlterNet
Morello says working-class folk and union people shouldn't just fight bad legislation -- they should put forward their own agenda for a better world.
Posted on Apr 22, 2012, Source: AlterNet
At 87, Schlafly is still on the warpath, gracing any podium that will have her with a font of barbed quips, bad facts and bitter resentment.
Posted on Apr 18, 2012, Source: AlterNet
Mitt Romney's campaign welcomed the endorsement of a washed-up rock-n-roller who said President Obama could "suck on my machine gun." Where's the outrage?
Posted on Apr 10, 2012, Source: AlterNet
Romney and Santorum huddled with religious-right leaders over Easter week. Did those meetings determine Santorum's fate?
Posted on Apr 2, 2012, Source: AlterNet
An FBI investigation, a new documentary, and a negative court ruling: here's a look inside the Kochs' worst week in a while.
Posted on Mar 27, 2012, Source: AlterNet
To the corporate media, the machinations of the 1 percent's most infamous poster boys might look like old news. But for regular Americans, it's a fight for their lives.
Posted on Mar 20, 2012, Source: AlterNet
Santorum celebrated his defeat by denying climate change. Romney celebrated his win with a lightbulb lie. And a prominent pollster said voters are stupid. Pattern?
Posted on Mar 18, 2012, Source: AlterNet
What's stunning about this year's crop of endorsers is the torrent of venom, mendacity and absurdity that spills from their mouths and pens.
Posted on Mar 6, 2012, Source: AlterNet
With the outcome of Super Tuesday a jumbled mess, why haven't the sugar daddies of the right come together to anoint an opponent to Obama?
Posted on Mar 4, 2012, Source: AlterNet
I'm just a campaign-trail reporter trying to cover a big event in the U.S. presidential campaign at which four candidates will speak. But I'm banned without explanation.
Posted on Feb 28, 2012, Source: AlterNet
Romney claimed victory in his must-win native state of Michigan, but as a weakened candidate with a narrow margin. Arizona was kinder to him.
Posted on Feb 28, 2012, Source: AlterNet
The thought of living under a neo-theocracy makes me kind of queasy.
Posted on Feb 22, 2012, Source: AlterNet
If Santorum gets to bear the standard for the GOP, the party moves even further to the right. Here's a taste of what's on that plate.
Posted on Feb 15, 2012, Source: AlterNet
With Catholic leaders and churchgoers turning their backs on the bishops, the men who rule the church are watching their political power wane.
Posted on Feb 13, 2012, Source: AlterNet
We expect the climate denial and the race-baiting. But what was surprising was the sheer stupidity of some of the candidates' assertions at CPAC.
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.
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