Stories by Sara Robinson
Sara Robinson, MS, APF is a social futurist and the editor of AlterNet's Vision page. Follow her on Twitter, or subscribe to AlterNet's Vision newsletter for weekly updates.
Posted on May 21, 2012, Source: AlterNet
In one short decade, home ownership has gone from being the Holy Grail of middle-class financial achievement to a very risky financial ball-and-chain.
Posted on May 18, 2012, Source: AlterNet
The education of our children is a core cultural and political choice that reflects the deepest differences between liberals and conservatives.
Posted on May 16, 2012, Source: AlterNet
Some new ideas and big questions are defining our economic future.
Posted on May 11, 2012, Source: AlterNet
Flowers are nice, but this Mother's Day, what I really want is for these immature boys to grow up already.
Posted on May 8, 2012, Source: AlterNet
We may not share their theology, but right-wing religion teaches powerful lessons on courage, confidence and foresight that we could stand to learn.
Posted on May 1, 2012, Source: AlterNet
The author offers one of her periodic assessments of America's potential to go fascist. And the news is better than it's been in years.
Posted on Apr 25, 2012, Source: AlterNet
A new book makes a strong case that nobody ever makes it on their own in America.
Posted on Apr 24, 2012, Source: AlterNet
In a world where kids are starving and ice caps are melting, how can people spend $5K on shoes?
Posted on Apr 12, 2012, Source: AlterNet
Successful change movements run on diversity. Here are the essential skill sets no revolution can win without.
Posted on Apr 4, 2012, Source: AlterNet
Did Rick Santorum just declare the next right-wing crusade?
Posted on Apr 3, 2012, Source: AlterNet
In a time of huge change and uncertainty, we need to think about the future as clearly as possible. Here's where we most often get it wrong.
Posted on Mar 29, 2012, Source: AlterNet
Religion is alive and well in the 21st century -- but it also looks very different now.
Posted on Mar 21, 2012, Source: AlterNet
The war on women is also an effort to permanently give politicians, religious authorities, accountants, and your boss a seat in your doctor's exam room.
Posted on Mar 20, 2012, Source: AlterNet
An abusive, out-of-control, rageaholic GOP broke our country by shattering our trust in democracy and in ourselves.
Posted on Mar 16, 2012, Source: AlterNet
A long-term trend toward smaller houses is well underway -- with huge implications for the future of our cities.
Posted on Mar 13, 2012, Source: AlterNet
One hundred fifty years of research proves that shorter work hours actually raise productivity and profits -- and overtime destroys them. So why do we still do this?
Posted on Mar 7, 2012, Source: AlterNet
Sightline Institute’s Alan Durning discusses hope, fear and how we can keep making progress when change seems impossible.
Posted on Feb 29, 2012, Source: AlterNet
There's only one way to demonstrate who America's producers and parasites really are. It's time to go Galt.
Posted on Feb 23, 2012, Source: AlterNet
These outdated laws forbid sustainable choices -- and here's what you can do to change them.
Posted on Feb 15, 2012, Source: AlterNet
Conservative bishops and Congressmen are fighting a rear-guard action against one of the most revolutionary changes in human history.
Posted on Feb 13, 2012, Source: AlterNet
Some of the things we learned back at the Big U don't work at all on the political street.
Posted on Feb 7, 2012, Source: AlterNet
Stop waiting around, because "normal" as we know it isn't coming back.
Posted on Feb 1, 2012, Source: AlterNet
The world is changing quickly, and we need to help steer it according to our shared values -- our vision of what might be.
Posted on Oct 22, 2010, Source: Blog for Our Future
It's not fascism yet; but if the Tea Party manages to get its hands on the levers of power, it will be.
Posted on Sep 24, 2010, Source: Blog for Our Future
Getting to the bottom of why the conservatives are taking out after the Muslim community now -- nine full years after 9/11.
Posted on Jul 17, 2010, Source: Blog for Our Future
You've heard the latest one, right? The one about how President Obama deliberately blew up the Deepwater Horizon to pass an energy bill?
Posted on May 25, 2010, Source: AlterNet
In his new book, journalist Alexander Zaitchik examines the character and career of the shock jock at the center of the far-right's churning cultural storm.
Posted on Apr 6, 2010, Source: Campaign for America's Future
It's time to openly confront the fact that conservatives have spent the past 40 years systematically delegitimizing the very idea of US government.
Posted on Feb 10, 2010, Source: AlterNet
Vancouver does things its own strange and subtle ways that the media hordes will only begin to be noticing by the time these Games are over.
Posted on Feb 5, 2010, Source: Blog for Our Future
A poll commissioned by DailyKos shows just how far to the right the GOP has been dragged by its right wing...and how far out of step they are with the rest of America.
Posted on Nov 28, 2009, Source: Orcinus
Copenhagen is the next step forward, and we’ll accept it with greater equanimity if we understand that conventional thinkers have to work their toward deeper transformation
Posted on Aug 27, 2009, Source: Campaign for America's Future
If we want to build a fascist-proof America for the long haul, we must stand up now for everything we believe and everything we are.
Posted on Aug 13, 2009, Source: Campaign for America's Future
Why the right-wing extremism must be stopped in its tracks or else we face the threat of outright violence and goon rule.
Posted on Aug 7, 2009, Source: Campaign for America's Future
There are dangerous currents running through America's politics and the way we confront them is crucial.
Posted on Jun 26, 2009, Source: Campaign for America's Future
Our current system has robbed us of the chance to save, educate ourselves, see the world and live to a robust old age.
Posted on Jun 20, 2009, Source: Campaign for America's Future
This is terrorism we're dealing with. We can't afford to let ourselves be distracted by spin. It's time to set the record straight with the facts.
Posted on Jun 13, 2009, Source: Orcinus
People are being shot dead at the rate of several per month now. And it's figures on the Right that are putting the killers up to it.
Posted on Jun 10, 2009, Source: AlterNet
The tides of history and demographics, and the way the world works are on our side.
Posted on May 6, 2009, Source: Campaign for America's Future
Their talk is turning ugly, and it's not unthinkable that we could be in for a wave of domestic terrorism unseen since the mid-'90s.
Posted on Feb 27, 2009, Source: Campaign for America's Future
It would almost be funny if their ideas about spending didn't lead us into the deepest financial catastrophe in nearly a century.
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