Stories by Lauren Kelley

Lauren Kelley is the activism and gender editor at AlterNet and a freelance journalist based in New York City. Her work has appeared in Salon, Time Out New York, the L Magazine, and other publications. Follow her on Twitter. subscribe to Lauren Kelley's feed

Stephen Colbert on "Gay Oreos" and the Hidden Homosexual Agenda of Twinkies, Mounds, and Animal Crackers

Posted on: Jun 28, 2012, Source: AlterNet

Rotten: Congress Freezes Student Loan Rates for a Year, But Also Moves to Increase Loan Costs by $20 Billion

Posted on: Jun 28, 2012, Source: AlterNet

Happy Pride Month! Salvation Army Official Says Gay People Deserve to Die

Posted on: Jun 27, 2012, Source: AlterNet

Amid Much Criticism Over Ouster, UVA Reinstates School President

Posted on: Jun 27, 2012, Source: AlterNet

Jon Stewart: Fox's "Outrage Repertoire Has Been So Overused As to Render Justified Outrage Meaningless"

Posted on: Jun 27, 2012, Source: AlterNet

Moving Photos From Last Weekend's Stop and Frisk March in NYC

Posted on: Jun 21, 2012, Source: AlterNet

Maddow on "Fast and Furious," AKA "What Your Uncle Who Watches Fox News All Day Is All Worked Up About"

Posted on: Jun 21, 2012, Source: AlterNet

$29.5 Billion in Overdraft Fees? How the Big Banks Are Still Screwing Us

Posted on: Jun 19, 2012, Source: AlterNet

Millions of Americans continue to be screwed by the banks they helped bail out just a few short years ago. It just isn't right.

Can We Curb Obscene Pay? 5 Examples of Shareholder Activism

Posted on: Jun 13, 2012, Source: AlterNet

Shareholder-activists are taking some of the Occupy movement's messages off the streets and into the corporate spaces where shareholder meetings take place.

How Urban Outfitters Peddles Ironic Conservatism, Hipster Racism and Other Terrible Values

Posted on: Jun 11, 2012, Source: AlterNet

Every company uses consumers to sell products, but Urban Outfitters' way of doing so feels especially slimy.

VA Climate Change Report Left Out Terms Like "Climate Change" for Fear of GOP Backlash

Posted on: Jun 11, 2012, Source: AlterNet

Occupy Homes Activist Saves His Own Mother's House From Foreclosure

Posted on: Jun 11, 2012, Source: AlterNet

The Rampant Abuse of Prescription Drugs as Study Aids Among Students

Posted on: Jun 11, 2012, Source: AlterNet

7 States That Ban Atheists From Holding Public Office

Posted on: Jun 11, 2012, Source: AlterNet

Bill Maher on WI Recall: "The Unions Tried to Kick a Bully, and the Bully Kicked Their Ass"

Posted on: Jun 9, 2012, Source: AlterNet

Bill Moyers: Big Money + Big Media = a "Disney World" of Democracy

Posted on: Jun 9, 2012, Source: AlterNet

Romney Campaign Can't Spell: First "Amercia," Now "Ronald Regan"

Posted on: Jun 7, 2012, Source: AlterNet

Maddow on Why Citizens United Must Go: "If You Are Outspent 8-to-1, Then You Are Going to Lose"

Posted on: Jun 7, 2012, Source: AlterNet

Watch: Netroots Nation Livestream

Posted on: Jun 7, 2012, Source: AlterNet

Homeowners, Renters Launch "Home Defenders League" to Demand Action on Housing Crisis

Posted on: May 31, 2012, Source: AlterNet

Huge: Walmart, the Biggest Gun Seller in the U.S., Dumps ALEC Amid Anti-"Stand Your Ground" Law Activism

Posted on: May 31, 2012, Source: AlterNet

Jon Stewart Begs Donald Trump to Get Back in the Race, for the Sake of Comedy

Posted on: May 31, 2012, Source: AlterNet

The "POM" Pomegranate Scam: The Truth Behind the Company and Its Billionaire Owners

Posted on: May 25, 2012, Source: AlterNet

The FTC says POM Wonderful has engaged in deceptive advertising. Now the company is doubling down on its false claims.

DNC Finally Helps Scott Walker Opponent Raise Money for Recall Election

Posted on: May 24, 2012, Source: AlterNet

OWS Librarians Sue Mayor Bloomberg, NYPD, and City of New York Over November 15 Middle-of-the-Night Raid

Posted on: May 24, 2012, Source: AlterNet

LA Becomes Nation's Largest City to Ban Plastic Bags; Also Requiring Fee for Paper Bags

Posted on: May 24, 2012, Source: AlterNet

You May Not Agree With Conservative Pundit S.E. Cupp, But Hustler Photoshopping an Explicit Image of Her Is Not OK

Posted on: May 24, 2012, Source: AlterNet

NC Pastor Take Homophobia to the Extreme, Says Gay People Should Be "Detained in Camps" Until They Die

Posted on: May 23, 2012, Source: AlterNet

Anti-NATO Activists Charged With "Providing Material Support for Terrorism" in Apparent Retaliation for Calling Out Police Intimidation

Posted on: May 19, 2012, Source: AlterNet

On Bill Maher Show, Dan Rather Slams Corporate Media: "To Put it Bluntly, Big Business Is in Bed With Big Government"

Posted on: May 19, 2012, Source: AlterNet

Bill Moyers Talks to Tom Morello, a "Troubadour for Justice"

Posted on: May 19, 2012, Source: AlterNet

TED: Even More Elitist Than We Thought

Posted on: May 17, 2012, Source: AlterNet

TED curator Chris Anderson seemed most concerned that "business managers and entrepreneurs would feel insulted" by some remarks about income inequality.

Pregnant Woman With Child in the Car Tased Three Times After Being Pulled Over for Speeding

Posted on: May 17, 2012, Source: AlterNet

Organizers of TED, Which Costs Thousands to Attend, Deem Talk on Income Inequality Too "Politically Controversial" to Share

Posted on: May 17, 2012, Source: AlterNet

Taibbi: Embarrassing Documents Surface Showing How Goldman, Other Mega-Banks Engaged in "Naked Short Selling"

Posted on: May 17, 2012, Source: AlterNet

Forget Flowers This Mother's Day: 11 Ways to REALLY Help Mothers

Posted on: May 11, 2012, Source: AlterNet

Recent battles against reproductive rights and unions, and the gender wage gap, make it clear that this country doesn't support mothers.

House Responds to Obama Marriage Equality Statement by Moving to Reinforce Homophobic DOMA

Posted on: May 10, 2012, Source: AlterNet

Obama Says He Made Decision to Support Marriage Equality Before Joe Biden's Remarks

Posted on: May 10, 2012, Source: AlterNet

Day After Obama Marriage Equality Move, Story Emerges of Teenage Romney Tackling, Cutting Hair of Boy He Believed to Be Gay

Posted on: May 10, 2012, Source: AlterNet

Are Self-Defense Laws "Whites Only"?

Posted on: May 8, 2012, Source: AlterNet

"African Americans are caught," says Rev. William Barber. "On one hand, we fight against stand-your-ground laws, but once the laws are on the books they aren't applied to us."

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