Stories by Joshua Holland

Joshua Holland is a freelance writer and editor-at-large at AlterNet. He's the author of The 15 Biggest Lies About the Economy. Drop him an email or follow him on Twitter. subscribe to Joshua Holland's feed

Meet the Young Journalist Who Ruined a Couple of NSA Spooks' Day

Posted on: Jul 9, 2013, Source: AlterNet

What started out as a routine recruiting session went terribly wrong when students put recruiters on the spot.

Shocker: Only 1% of So Called Terrorists Nabbed by the FBI Were Real

Posted on: Jul 8, 2013, Source: AlterNet

A larger number of arrestees, poor and powerless, were caught in FBI "Threat Factory" stings.

I Spent Eight Years As a Liberal Working for Fox News

Posted on: Jun 24, 2013, Source: AlterNet

Joe Muto gives a behind-the-scenes account of life at the cable news station.

How Giving Spying Power to Giant Corporations Is Dangerous to Your Future

Posted on: Jun 19, 2013, Source: AlterNet

After two decades of downsizing government, we shouldn't be surprised that corporate spooks are surveilling us.

Right-Wing Immigration Foes Get Burned by Reality

Posted on: Jun 19, 2013, Source: AlterNet

The CBO says the Senate immigration bill would lower the deficit by $900 billion over the next 20 years.

How America's Retirement Crisis Is Crushing the Hopes of a Generation of Young People

Posted on: May 22, 2013, Source: AlterNet

We shouldn't just worry about older workers; their kids are hurting too.

Pilots and Professors Barely Scraping By? 9 Surprising Jobs That Pay a Pittance

Posted on: Apr 24, 2013, Source: AlterNet

It's not only fry chefs who are struggling to make ends meet.

American Right-Wingers Are No Longer Conservative — They're Extremists

Posted on: Apr 17, 2013, Source: AlterNet

Their reactionary bent is manifesting itself in legislatures across the country.

How Right-Wingers in Congress Came to Represent a Whole Different Country

Posted on: Apr 11, 2013, Source: AlterNet

The House GOP has redistricted and propagandized itself into another country.

Outrageous: David Cay Johnston Explains How Big Corporations Withhold Your Taxes and Then Pocket Them

Posted on: Mar 22, 2013, Source: AlterNet

And other tales of legal corporate robbery.

Are Americans Too Stupid For Democracy?

Posted on: Mar 19, 2013, Source: AlterNet

How can we rationally pursue our self-interests when we don't know what's going on?

New Study Finds the Wealthy Are Different

Posted on: Mar 11, 2013, Source: AlterNet

On average, high earners have a very different idea of what makes a just society.

Rand Paul's Wrong on Drones -- Just Like Everything Else

Posted on: Mar 8, 2013, Source: AlterNet

Paul's critique comes straight from the fetid fever swamps of the conspiratorial right.

Pissed Off About Illegal Immigration? Blame the White Guys in Suits

Posted on: Mar 7, 2013, Source: AlterNet

With immigration reform in the news, it's important to understand what drives people to cross borders.

Teachers Make Handy Scapegoats, But Spiraling Inequality Is Really What Ails Our Education System

Posted on: Mar 7, 2013, Source: AlterNet

Stanford University scholar Linda Darling-Hammond explains the connection.

Just What Do Hedge Fund Honchos Do For a Million Bucks an Hour?

Posted on: Feb 22, 2013, Source: AlterNet

Les Leopold's new book reveals that hedge funds make their super-profits by doing what the rest of us would call cheating.

Walmart's Off to a Terrible 2013: Is Ravage-Capitalism Reaching a Point of Diminishing Returns?

Posted on: Feb 20, 2013, Source: AlterNet

Working people may not be able to afford the retail giant's low prices.

Two New Polls Obscure American Views of Obama's Drone Program

Posted on: Feb 15, 2013, Source: AlterNet

Opinion polls are supposed to offer us a snapshot of the public's mood, but these merely muddied the waters.

What Would It Look Like If Red States Actually Seceded?

Posted on: Feb 12, 2013, Source: AlterNet

Our interconnected world makes an amicable divorce a bit more complicated than just breaking up the states.

Scary Flashes of Iraq and Afghanistan Wars in the LAPD's Manhunt for Chris Dorner

Posted on: Feb 8, 2013, Source: AlterNet

The shootings were reminiscent of horrific incidents at Iraqi checkpoints.

10 Craziest Right-Wing Reactions to Boy Scouts Lifting Gay Ban

Posted on: Feb 4, 2013, Source: AlterNet

As always, the Right offers several intellectually sound arguments.

Pitbulls Used to Be Considered the Perfect "Nanny Dogs" for Children -- Until the Media Turned Them Into Monsters

Posted on: Jan 30, 2013, Source: AlterNet

Despite their reputation, the United Kennel Club doesn't recommended using pitbulls as guard dogs because they're too friendly with strangers.

Obama Pushes Ahead With Immigration Reform -- Here's the Good, Bad and the Ugly

Posted on: Jan 29, 2013, Source: AlterNet

Will this be the break-through moment for comprehensive reform?

4 Bogus Right-Wing Theories About Poverty, and the Real Reason Americans Can’t Make Ends Meet (Hard Times USA)

Posted on: Jan 22, 2013, Source: AlterNet

We have an economic crisis that is kept out of sight and out of mind.

Where We're at, 40 Years After Roe v. Wade: Many More Right Wingers Have Abortion as Single Issue, Than Do Liberals

Posted on: Jan 21, 2013, Source: AlterNet

Four decades on and the fight continues.

How #GunAppreciationDay Went Horribly Wrong

Posted on: Jan 20, 2013, Source: AlterNet

The weekend was marked by shootings.

The 8 Gun-Nuttiest Freakouts Over the Prospect of Obama Issuing a Few Modest Executive Orders

Posted on: Jan 15, 2013, Source: AlterNet

They've gone off the deep end in the wake of Sandy Hook.

'Sandy Hook Truthers' Crank Their Gun-Nuttery Up to the Max

Posted on: Jan 14, 2013, Source: AlterNet

A vile conspiracy theory is gaining traction in the gun rights community.

7 Theories Why Obama Keeps Getting Burned (Or Doesn't!) Negotiating with Republicans

Posted on: Jan 9, 2013, Source: AlterNet

Obama's presidency still tends to divide progressives.

Was Fiscal Cliff Deal a Stinker, or Did Obama Win One?

Posted on: Jan 7, 2013, Source: AlterNet

Mike Tomasky of the Daily Beast and AlterNet's Joshua Holland have very different views on the question.

Right-Wingers Who Think They Got 'Rolled' by Obama In Fiscal Cliff Deal Are Totally Crazy

Posted on: Jan 4, 2013, Source: AlterNet

Either they get everything they want, or they scream bloody murder.

Holding the Debt Limit Hostage is Unconstitutional, So Why Not Get Around it by Minting a Trillion-Dollar Platinum Coin?

Posted on: Jan 4, 2013, Source: AlterNet

It may be silly, but the idea of lurching from one manufactured crisis to the next is a lot sillier.

What the Fiscal Cliff Deal Was Really About

Posted on: Jan 1, 2013, Source: AlterNet

We won't know how it all shakes out for two months.

How an Astounding New Right-Wing Lie About the Economy Was Born

Posted on: Dec 14, 2012, Source: AlterNet

Insenstivity to human plight taken to new extremes.

Yes, We Can Have Sane Gun Control Without Trampling Gun Owners' Rights

Posted on: Dec 14, 2012, Source: AlterNet

The NRA is a problem for sane gun enthusiasts.

Obamacare: Are There Any Conservative Principles that Conservatives Will Stand Behind?

Posted on: Dec 14, 2012, Source: AlterNet

Doesn't seem so.

Call Michigan's Job-Killing Anti-Worker Law What It Is: The Right To Rip Off Unions

Posted on: Dec 7, 2012, Source: AlterNet

Few laws represent such an offensive assault on workers' rights.

5 Groups of Americans Who Shouldn't Have the Right To Vote, According to Ted Nugent's Twisted Logic

Posted on: Dec 5, 2012, Source: AlterNet

The washed-up rocker is about as un-American as they come.

The Right-Wing Media Bubble Cocoons Republicans from Adapting to the New Political Landscape

Posted on: Nov 27, 2012, Source: AlterNet

The right can't confront the reality of their demographic challenges.

Republicans' "Plan B" for Tax Hikes Is the Same as Plan A: Lie Through Their Teeth

Posted on: Nov 23, 2012, Source: AlterNet

More blather about "small businesses."

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