Stories by Tana Ganeva
Tana Ganeva is AlterNet's managing editor. Follow her on Twitter or email her at tana@alternet.org.
Posted on Feb 4, 2012, Source: AlterNet
When it comes to a spate of new technologies, our privacy protections are wildly outdated.
Posted on Jan 8, 2012, Source: AlterNet
Civil libertarians worry about the roll-out of Next Generation Identification, a massive expansion of the agency's current biometric database.
Posted on Dec 6, 2011, Source: AlterNet
Occupiers rallied with homeowners facing foreclosure or eviction, interrupted housing auctions, protested at banks, and took over vacant properties to move homeless families in.
Posted on Nov 23, 2011, Source: AlterNet
Some worry that camping on private property may invite more extreme police attacks.
Posted on Nov 10, 2011, Source: AlterNet
New York's Department of Homeless Services has tried to launch a new policy restricting access to shelters.
Posted on Nov 2, 2011, Source: AlterNet
Why is an overwhelmingly peaceful protest under such heavy surveillance?
Posted on Sep 28, 2011, Source: AlterNet
If you look closely there are promising signs that American attitudes are changing in a way that may blunt the impact of religion on politics and culture.
Posted on Sep 26, 2011, Source: AlterNet
Biometric technology is being used to more closely track low-wage workers, already desperate in a bad economy.
Posted on Aug 30, 2011, Source: AlterNet
Facial recognition technology has become more advanced, and it's increasingly popping up in two realms: law enforcement and commerce.
Posted on Aug 18, 2011, Source: AlterNet
Many crisis pregnancy centers are converting into limited-service medical clinics. With Planned Parenthood under attack, will they be more of a draw for women?
Posted on Feb 25, 2011, Source: AlterNet
How Gov. Walker, Republican lawmakers, Tea Party groups, Fox News and conservative pundits have gone after Wisconsin's public workers and their supporters.
Posted on Jan 21, 2011, Source: AlterNet
The latest missive in the war against porn, courtesy of the Atlantic, presents male sexual desire as brutish and violent. Really?
Posted on Jan 15, 2011, Source: AlterNet
December and January issues of the New Yorker had almost no content by women. Why do publications so often fail to include female voices?
Posted on Jan 12, 2011, Source: AlterNet
The Tea Party Express sent an email to supporters this morning asking for money to fight against alleged liberal attacks in the wake of the shooting.
Posted on Jan 11, 2011, Source: AlterNet
The weapon that let Jared Loughner fire 31 shots is flying off the shelves of Arizona gun stores.
Posted on Dec 31, 2010, Source: AlterNet
Shredding the corporate media's malicious attacks on WikiLeaks.
Posted on Dec 20, 2010, Source: AlterNet
Propelled by wealthy donors and business interests, a new sit-lie ordinance in San Francisco gives police the power to fine and arrest people for resting on the sidewalk.
Posted on Dec 10, 2010, Source: AlterNet
As more and more companies bend under government pressure, a few are standing up for the site.
Posted on Dec 8, 2010, Source: AlterNet
WikiLeaks has faced non-stop attacks by government officials. Both internet and financial companies are cutting off services. Here's a round-up of efforts to suppress the site.
Posted on Dec 4, 2010, Source: AlterNet
Dr. Laura left broadcast radio after screaming the n-word at a black woman. She'll soon join a host of homophobic, sexist, racist right-wingers on Sirius.
Posted on Oct 2, 2010, Source: AlterNet
Tea Party-backed candidates who decry government intrusion into people's lives want abortion outlawed even in cases of incest or rape.
Posted on Jul 16, 2010, Source: AlterNet
This year, Republicans at the state level have taken a brave stand against your sex life, the New World Order and paper currency.
Posted on Jun 30, 2010, Source: AlterNet
The Nevada GOP nominee for Senate thinks abortion should not be allowed even in cases of rape and incest.
Posted on Apr 6, 2010, Source: AlterNet
The week is still young, but already the RNC is flailing.
Posted on Mar 23, 2010, Source: AlterNet
The day after the bill passed, right-wingers took to the airwaves to make outrageous, wildly offensive comparisons to 9/11 and Nazis. Some called for violence.
Posted on Feb 19, 2010, Source: AlterNet
Software engineer Joseph Stack blasted taxes, the legal system and corporate executives in his suicide note. Now a Facebook fan club celebrates his act.
Posted on Feb 4, 2010, Source: AlterNet
The Americans accused of smuggling Haitian children out of the country illegally have been charged and face up to 15 years in prison
Posted on Jan 14, 2010, Source: AlterNet
Sadly, humanity has reached 2010 without flying cars or personal-use jetpacks. But not without sex robots.
Posted on Nov 12, 2009, Source: AlterNet
Groups like BastaDobbs have done in Dobbs, who used his media platform to stir up racist, anti-immigrant hysteria for years.
Posted on Nov 2, 2009, Source: AlterNet
Conservative women should be strongly criticized. But using gendered language to attack them doesn't help progressives.
Posted on Oct 16, 2009, Source: AlterNet
Who doesn't want to have sex with virgins?
Posted on Sep 30, 2009, Source: AlterNet
The Freedom From Religion Foundation is using quotes from famous atheists to spread the message in its national billboard campaign.
Posted on Sep 8, 2009, Source: AlterNet
Obama's nefarious plan for the nation's genitals? His evil designs on your children? Here are the most absurd right-wing assaults on the president -- and logic and reason.
Posted on Aug 24, 2009, Source: AlterNet
A Color of Change campaign has cost Beck's show 36 advertisers so far. Will Fox decide he isn't worth it?
Posted on Aug 3, 2009, Source: AlterNet
The Fox host's attacks on Obama are beyond the pale. How much longer will his advertisers, like GEICO and Proctor & Gamble, accept this?
Posted on Jul 30, 2009, Source: AlterNet
AlterNet readers had a lot to say about a recent article on the health and environmental impact of bacon production.
Posted on Jun 11, 2009, Source: AlterNet
Facebook took down a group publicizing the link between Michael Savage and Rockstar energy drink.
Posted on Jun 10, 2009, Source: AlterNet
When we helped publicize the link between bilious talk show host Michael Savage and Rockstar energy drink, we got a letter from their lawyers.
Posted on May 6, 2009, Source: AlterNet
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Posted on Apr 18, 2009, Source: AlterNet
A recent article showing the ties of right-wing funders to tea parties brought out the right-wing trolls.
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