Stories by Isabel Macdonald

Isabel Macdonald is AlterNet's NYC-based publicist. Before joining AlterNet, she was the communications director at the media watch group Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting, and her writing has appeared in Extra Magazine, Huffington Post, the Indypendent and Z Magazine. subscribe to Isabel Macdonald's feed

"Send 'Em To Jail That Day!” The Newest Frontier in the Drug War and the People Who Make Millions from It

Posted on: Apr 10, 2013, Source: The Nation

The shady people and companies behind the push to expand drug testing.

Disaster Capitalism is Failing Displaced Haitians

Posted on: Jun 22, 2011, Source: Colorlines.com

Outsourced reconstruction projects, in-affordable housing, and greed leave grim options for Haitians looking for homes.

Lou Dobbs Comes to Fox -- Will His New Show Feature the Same Old Hypocrisy?

Posted on: Nov 11, 2010, Source: AlterNet

Dobbs may forgo the immigrant-baiting that made him a right-wing star and got him booted from CNN, but his faux populism extends beyond a single issue.

More Dobbs Hypocrisy: Immigrant Bashing TV Personality Sponsored Event That Hired Undocumented Immigrants

Posted on: Oct 17, 2010, Source: AlterNet

For years Dobbs waged nightly diatribes on CNN against the undocumented immigrants who cared for his show horses and toiled on the grounds of his Florida estate.

Lou Dobbs, Immigrant-Basher, Uses Undocumented Workers on his Horse Farm

Posted on: Oct 7, 2010, Source: The Nation

At his multi-million-dollar estates, the GOP hopeful and crusader against immigrants, employed undocumented workers to maintain his daughter's equestrian lifestyle.

Has 'America's Toughest Sheriff' Lost It?

Posted on: Oct 19, 2009, Source: AlterNet

Local community organizers are calling on the DHS to go further in stripping rogue Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s powers.

Corporate Media Have Ruined the Health Care Debate

Posted on: Jul 27, 2009, Source: AlterNet

TV networks have shut out coverage of single-payer as an option for health reform. We must work to get it back in public debate.