Stories by Brad Reed
Brad Reed is a writer living in Boston. His work has previously appeared in the American Prospect Online, and he blogs frequently at Sadly, No!.
Posted on Jan 2, 2012, Source: AlterNet
The party that loves to talk about Jesus has been defying His Word this season.
Posted on Nov 16, 2011, Source: AlterNet
The GOP's "anyone but Romney" strategy has backfired.
Posted on May 20, 2011, Source: AlterNet
Most of the GOP favorites have certain critical flaws that could cripple their chances of winning over the Limbaugh-Fox News-Malkin axis of the GOP base.
Posted on Apr 18, 2011, Source: AlterNet
Take Lisa Simpson and combine her with Gordon Gekko and the obnoxious child-android from “Small Wonder,” and you get the perfect Rand hero.
Posted on Nov 29, 2010, Source: AlterNet
Much ink has been spilled about the Koch brothers. But there are plenty of other wealthy right-wingers promoting dangerous policies.
Posted on Oct 10, 2010, Source: AlterNet
From candy cereals to dead pigs piled onto biscuits, Americans start their days with some deadly concoctions.
Posted on Aug 27, 2010, Source: AlterNet
Led by Futurist Roy Kurzweil, "Transhumanism," promotes the adoption of technologies that will eventually help “humans transcend biology."
Posted on Jun 17, 2010, Source: AlterNet
One after the other, GOPers and conservatives are taking the side of the British company destroying our gulf.
Posted on May 1, 2010, Source: AlterNet
We can't trust Obama to forge an effective financial bill. But we don’t have to live in despair, because we have an alternative to the Obama-Dodd-Frank approach.
Posted on Apr 20, 2010, Source: AlterNet
Goldman Sachs is being sued by the government for allegedly defrauding its investors. Confused? Here's some plain talk about a mega rip-off.
Posted on Feb 18, 2010, Source: AlterNet
A strategy for winning the next round of the finance debate sets up the progressive case for real reform, for the next time the bankers wreck our economy.
Posted on Jan 20, 2010, Source: Sadly, No!
No, voters aren't moved by "bipartisanship."
Posted on Jan 18, 2010, Source: AlterNet
From ab belts to Taco Bell diets, here are some of the dumbest -- and unhealthiest -- things people do to lose weight.
Posted on Jan 7, 2010, Source: Commonweal Institute
Merely being better than Bush is not how you get a good grade.
Posted on Dec 6, 2009, Source: AlterNet
Once upon a time, some brave scientists had a noble dream of ridding food of nutrients. That dream is closer to reality than ever.
Posted on Dec 5, 2009, Source: Sadly, No!
War isn't a matter of national security for the neocon.
Posted on Nov 13, 2009, Source: Sadly, No!
Really, it's their defining trait.
Posted on Oct 31, 2009, Source: Commonweal Institute
The Fox News shock jock weaves a tale of wealthy elites who are victims of tyrannical government hell-bent on taking their hard-earned money.
Posted on Oct 5, 2009, Source: AlterNet
A hilarious look at conservative thought in the Obama era.
Posted on Oct 2, 2009, Source: Sadly, No!
A vision of things to come?
Posted on Oct 1, 2009, Source: AlterNet
Special interests have always worked to kill national health plans -- from the progressives' proposals during the Wilson era to Clinton's failed reforms in the 1990s.
Posted on Sep 28, 2009, Source: AlterNet
Because it was created by Dr. Frankenstein and Satan? Actually, the truth is far less comforting.
Posted on Aug 28, 2009, Source: Sadly, No!
But according to Megan McCardle's Glibertarian readers, they're losers!
Posted on Aug 27, 2009, Source: AlterNet
One of AlterNet's most popular articles of 2009: Some of America’s favorite chains offer some thoroughly repellent dishes.
Posted on Aug 10, 2009, Source: Sadly, No!
You'd think there'd be someone on the right with something interesting to say.
Posted on Jul 1, 2009, Source: Sadly, No!
Some things need to be read to be believed.
Posted on Jun 26, 2009, Source: AlterNet
From Clarence Thomas to Mark Sanford, the definitive guide to randy Republicans
Posted on May 29, 2009, Source: AlterNet
A fringe brand of libertarians have been planning to escape the iron fist of democracy by founding a new country in the middle of the ocean.
Posted on Mar 25, 2009, Source: AlterNet
The corporate media's coverage of the administration's bank rescue plan comforts the comfortable.
Posted on Feb 11, 2009, Source: AlterNet
The new Treasury secretary's bailout could waste hundreds of billions of dollars and still not fix the financial sector.
Posted on Jan 15, 2009, Source: AlterNet
From rejecting diplomacy to abusing prisoners to disdaining Europe, "Red Dawn" offers a blueprint for the Bush years.
Posted on Nov 8, 2008, Source: AlterNet
How Sarah Palin, Joe the Plumber and other stupid stunts did not win the election for McCain.
Posted on Oct 4, 2008, Source: AlterNet
Shameless tricks that date back to the Nixon days of "ratfucking."
Posted on Sep 1, 2008, Source: AlterNet
As the storm bears down on the Gulf Coast, the Republicans see an opportunity to help salvage their brand.
Posted on Aug 20, 2008, Source: AlterNet
From birth certificates to Bernie Mac, a look at the goofiest attacks against the presumptive Democratic nominee.
Posted on Jul 1, 2008, Source: AlterNet
A shorter version of our long national nightmare.
Posted on Apr 14, 2008, Source: AlterNet
This country can't afford to have another election decided by the idea that a member of the ruling class is "genuine" and others are "elitist."
Posted on Jan 11, 2008, Source: AlterNet
The welfare-wingnut king has decided that fascism is a phenomenon of the left.
