Stories by Rachel Neumann

Rachel Neumann is the author of the new book Not Quite Nirvana: A Skeptic's Journey to Mindfulness. She has worked with numerous leading Buddhist and spiritual authors, including the Dalai Lama, Sylvia Boorstein, and Sulak Sivaraksa.

Not Quite Nirvana: A Skeptic's Journey to Mindfulness

Posted on: Nov 8, 2012, Source: AlterNet

Rachel Neumann tells the story of her unique journey from skeptical, fast-talking lefty New Yorker to the editor of famed Buddhist writers.

How This Atheist Jewish Writer Made Peace with Her Children's Love of Christmas

Posted on: Dec 16, 2011, Source: AlterNet

Our sense of compassion and empathy can come as much from our sense of belonging to a larger humanity as it can from our sense of otherness.

Unemployed and on the Verge of Losing Everything: "I Don't Know How I'll Make It"

Posted on: Jul 5, 2009, Source: AlterNet

Luz Guerra has already lost her job. Now she might lose her car, her home and her health insurance.

No "Roe v. Wade for Men"

Posted on: Jul 24, 2006, Source: AlterNet

Turns out men don't have a "right to procreate," although they do have a right to prevent procreation.

Bush personally stopped eavesdropping probe

Posted on: Jul 18, 2006, Source: AlterNet

Gonzales points the finger at the President.

Just two questions

Posted on: Jul 12, 2006, Source: AlterNet

Does testing high schoolers for drugs make them do more drugs? Does being on the list of potential terrorist targets insure you'll be visited by terrorists?

Belated anti-hybrid hype

Posted on: Jul 6, 2006, Source: AlterNet

What's the deal with marriage and isn't there a cheaper way for us to use less gas?

Death=innocence

Posted on: Jul 5, 2006, Source: AlterNet

When is a criminal conviction not a criminal conviction?

Cell phone drivers vs. drunk drivers

Posted on: Jun 30, 2006, Source: AlterNet

In a head-to-head collision, they both lose. Our holiday weekend advice: hang up or take the bus.

Right-handed gay fetuses

Posted on: Jun 27, 2006, Source: AlterNet

A new study reminds us that not everything is about "choice."

"My son could no longer be silent while atrocities were committed in the name of democracy."

Posted on: Jun 26, 2006, Source: AlterNet

An open letter from the mother of the first comissioned officer to refuse to serve in Iraq.

Buy My Baby

Posted on: Jun 23, 2006, Source: AlterNet

Selling your fourteen-month-old for fun and profit.

Gender confusion, five-year-old style

Posted on: Jun 22, 2006, Source: AlterNet

The country's youngest "transgender child," age 5, is starting kindergarten.

Police say No to the Feds

Posted on: Jun 21, 2006, Source: AlterNet

Undocumented immigrants are finding unexpected support from police chiefs, mayors, and city councils.

If only all the refugees looked like celebrities

Posted on: Jun 20, 2006, Source: AlterNet

Then maybe they'd get some attention and even possibly some toilets.

There's a lipstick ad in my book

Posted on: Jun 19, 2006, Source: AlterNet

If it's not a "crass commercial project," what is it?

"There's no more important issue than this one"

Posted on: Jun 7, 2006, Source: AlterNet

Terrorism? Health care? Guess again.

If threats don't work, try bribery

Posted on: May 30, 2006, Source: AlterNet

One way or another, you WILL have children.

Updated (with video): Enron's Ken Lay and Jeff Skilling found guilty as charged

Posted on: May 25, 2006, Source: AlterNet

Lay found guilty on all counts, Skilling on 19 of the 28 counts against him.

To bleed or not to bleed

Posted on: May 23, 2006, Source: AlterNet

Ladies, you have a choice.

The state of the world's mothers

Posted on: May 10, 2006, Source: AlterNet

A mother in Ethiopia is 37 times more likely to see her child die in the first year of life than a mother in Sweden.

"Your argument makes no sense"

Posted on: May 5, 2006, Source: AlterNet

A judge finally tells government lawyers why snooping on people's private Internet conversations just isn't ok.

Making sense of Moussaoui

Posted on: May 4, 2006, Source: AlterNet

This time, the jurors got it right.

It's a family affair

Posted on: May 2, 2006, Source: AlterNet

Hey, marching can be inspiring again! Just follow these four easy steps I learned yesterday at the huge march for immigrant rights.

Milk, milk, and wine

Posted on: Apr 28, 2006, Source: AlterNet

What are you drinking? Where does it come from?

The most beautiful family in the world

Posted on: Apr 27, 2006, Source: AlterNet

As long as the children never grow up.

Breastfeeding at Freddies

Posted on: Apr 18, 2006, Source: AlterNet

Get your emergency contraception here, just don't feed your baby in our store.

At least they have ping pong

Posted on: Apr 17, 2006, Source: AlterNet

The U.S. military admits it made a mistake when it sent to two Uighur Chinese men to Guantanamo Bay. But even though they're not "enemy combatants," we won't let them go.

Abandon hope all ye who enter

Posted on: Apr 14, 2006, Source: AlterNet

CIA Chief Negroponte spells it out: those in secret prisons will be there forever.

April is the cruelest month

Posted on: Apr 12, 2006, Source: AlterNet

Already 36 U.S. soldiers have been killed in Iraq this month, more than in all of March.

One reason to move to Vermont

Posted on: Apr 10, 2006, Source: AlterNet

Four small independent towns pass impeachment resolutions.

Hooray for Harry

Posted on: Apr 7, 2006, Source: AlterNet

Given a rare opportunity to tell the President exactly what he thought, he didn't choke.

The Immigration Debate: What's at stake

Posted on: Apr 6, 2006, Source: AlterNet

What kind of nation do we want to be?

Prayer hurts

Posted on: Apr 3, 2006, Source: AlterNet

Most talk about prayer focuses on freedom of religion, but what if your prayers actually hurt the person you're praying for?

It's the principal of the thing

Posted on: Mar 29, 2006, Source: AlterNet

What do you get when you cross two alleged lesbian teenagers and one very disturbed high school principal?

Scalia: Guantanamo inmates have "no rights"

Posted on: Mar 27, 2006, Source: AlterNet

Time to recuse yourself and go duck hunting, Antonin, preferably with the vice president.

More Patriot Act shenanigans

Posted on: Mar 24, 2006, Source: AlterNet

What is it about a President who not only thumbs his nose at Congress but puts in writing that he doesn't give a damn?

Make way for Kid Utility Vehicles

Posted on: Mar 22, 2006, Source: AlterNet

They may not be gas guzzlers, but they're just as evil as the grown-up versions.

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