Stories by Adele M. Stan

Adele M. Stan is AlterNet's Washington correspondent. She co-edited, with Don Hazen, the AlterNet book, Dangerous Brew: Exposing the Tea Party's Agenda to Take Over America. Follow her on Twitter: www.twitter.com/addiestan . Send tips to: adele@alternet.org subscribe to Adele M. Stan's feed

How Catholic Bishops Threw the Health Care Debate into Turmoil with Anti-Abortion Maneuver

Posted on: Nov 11, 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.

Sarah Palin and the Tea Party Movement Are at War With the GOP

Posted on: Nov 1, 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.

Meet the Senators in the Creepy Right-Wing Cult Trying to Defeat Health Care Reform

Posted on: Oct 19, 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.

Overshadowed by Tea Party Movement, the Christian Right Scrambles to Claim It Isn't Racist

Posted on: Sep 21, 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.

5 Reasons the Baucus Health Bill Fails the Basics

Posted on: Sep 17, 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.

Right Wingers Marching in DC Is Big News -- But the Same Old Faces Are Pulling the Strings

Posted on: Sep 13, 2009, Source: AlterNet

The men behind the religious right make a comeback with the Tea Party movement.

14 Things You Need to Know About Obama Heckler, Rep. Joe Wilson

Posted on: Sep 10, 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.

This Was the Obama We've Been Waiting for

Posted on: Sep 9, 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.

Big Business's Hidden Hand in the Smear Job on Van Jones

Posted on: Sep 7, 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.

White House Political Honcho Goes Mealy-Mouthed on Public Option

Posted on: Sep 6, 2009, Source: AlterNet

In his <i>Meet the Press</i> appearance, presidential adviser David Axelrod refused to say if Obama will trade away the public heath care plan.

The Wing-Nut Code: What Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin Are Really Saying to Their Followers

Posted on: Sep 1, 2009, Source: AlterNet

You thought they were just unhinged. But here's what they're really saying to the armed and dangerous.

You. At a Town Hall Meeting. 5 Questions You Should Ask

Posted on: Aug 25, 2009, Source: AlterNet

Those raucous health-care town halls aren't over yet. That's where you come in.

Utilizing Public Airwaves, Media Mogul Murdoch Is Big Muscle Behind Fraudulent Astro Turfers

Posted on: Aug 19, 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.

Gun-Nut Outside Obama Townhall Linked to GOP 'Stop ObamaCare' Effort

Posted on: Aug 11, 2009, Source: AlterNet

Strapped with a loaded gun, William Kostric carried a message from the GOP's "break Obama" campaign.

Inside Story on Town Hall Riots: Right-Wing Shock Troops Do Corporate America's Dirty Work

Posted on: Aug 9, 2009, Source: AlterNet

How the health-care industry, the GOP and one media mogul made common cause with the anti-government fringe.

UPDATE: Washington Post Responds to Women Protesting 'Mad Bitch' Video

Posted on: Aug 5, 2009, Source: AlterNet

In response to protest letter from Women, Action & the Media, WaPo exec editor concedes process problem.

Corporate Media Playing the Hate Game, Aiming at Both Obama and Clinton

Posted on: Jul 31, 2009, Source: AlterNet

Media bigs seem to have reached the conclusion that hatred sells, so they're embracing their inner sexists and inner racists.

Obama Comes Out Swinging at Cynical GOP on Health Care, Addresses Race Issues in Prof. Gates Arrest

Posted on: Jul 22, 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.

Republicans Will Be Toast in 2010 If the Dems Pass Health Reform, and They Know It

Posted on: Jul 20, 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.

At the Washington Premiere for 'In the Loop': When Moviemakers Meet Wonks

Posted on: Jul 17, 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.

Rabid Anti-Abortionist Tries to Use Sotomayor Hearings for Comeback

Posted on: Jul 13, 2009, Source: AlterNet

Infamous Operation Rescue founder Randall Terry employs his gory protest tactics in Washington to assail Sotomayor's record on reproductive rights.

Christian Right Voter Summit Sells Racist 'Obama Waffles'

Posted on: Sep 15, 2008, Source: Media Consortium

The Values Voter Summit hawks a a box of waffle mix emblazoned with a cartoon image of a bug-eyed, toothy, dark-lipped Barack Obama.

What Will the Green Economy Look Like?

Posted on: Aug 22, 2008, Source: Media Consortium

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?

The Stealth 'Feminists' Who Oppose Abortion

Posted on: Oct 23, 2006, Source: The American Prospect

The anti-choice group Feminists for Life is dangerously clever and well-connected.

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