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. subscribe to Rachel Neumann's feed

The War Within

Posted on: Mar 16, 2006, Source: AlterNet

I'm not talking Iraq. I'm talking women vs. fetuses.

We finally caught him!

Posted on: Mar 13, 2006, Source: AlterNet

No, it's not bin Laden, but close.

Who's happiest now?

Posted on: Mar 8, 2006, Source: AlterNet

In the fiercely competitive happiness debate, housewives are coming out on top. But maybe happiness isn't the point after all.

Tuesday, Bloody Tuesday

Posted on: Mar 7, 2006, Source: AlterNet

Today's predicament: worry about forced childbirth, children killed in Iraq, and Gonzales plugging away for torture or just focus on the earth getting zapped by a huge solar storm in six years.

No politics at the Oscars

Posted on: Mar 6, 2006, Source: AlterNet

"We, you know, bring up subjects."

Patriot Act slouches toward renewal

Posted on: Mar 1, 2006, Source: AlterNet

Same ugly beast, slightly new make-up.

Octavia Butler and the reading wars

Posted on: Feb 27, 2006, Source: AlterNet

Are you reading every single letter of each of these words or just the first and last?

Knock, Knock. Who's There?

Posted on: Feb 23, 2006, Source: AlterNet

Three patriots and 97 suckers.

98 people dead in U.S. custody

Posted on: Feb 23, 2006, Source: AlterNet

Guess how many people convicted of the murders.

Candlelight vigils stop illegal wiretapping!

Posted on: Feb 17, 2006, Source: AlterNet

If only.

Quality time

Posted on: Feb 15, 2006, Source: AlterNet

It's time for our government to stop evesdropping on its citizens and start listening to them.

The new photographs from Abu Ghraib

Posted on: Feb 15, 2006, Source: AlterNet

Are ugly, sad, stomach-twisting, necessary, and political.

Cheney shooting victim has heart attack

Posted on: Feb 14, 2006, Source: AlterNet

I kid you not.

He might have had better aim if he'd served in Vietnam

Posted on: Feb 13, 2006, Source: AlterNet

It's all fun and games with the Vice-President until someone gets shot.

The umpire strikes back

Posted on: Feb 8, 2006, Source: AlterNet

The most completely objective, nonpolitical, nonideological, nonpartisan rant you'll ever read.

2. 4. 6. 8. Who can we assassinate?

Posted on: Feb 6, 2006, Source: AlterNet

It's not just spying on U.S. citizens without a warrant; the President actually thinks he has the authority to order assassinations.

Alito's first vote

Posted on: Feb 2, 2006, Source: AlterNet

Good news for death penalty opponents. Bad news for reproductive rights.

You're pretty good looking...

Posted on: Feb 1, 2006, Source: AlterNet

for someone who wants to force my daughter to reproduce.

What Bush can learn from Oprah tonight

Posted on: Jan 31, 2006, Source: AlterNet

Coming clean will feel really really good...

Democracies not welcome

Posted on: Jan 30, 2006, Source: AlterNet

Why it's in our best interests to encourage dictators in the Middle East.

Readers Write: 'Child-free' or Just Cranky?

Posted on: Jan 29, 2006, Source: AlterNet

Our readers weigh in on whether or not you should have kids.

All you have to do is call

Posted on: Jan 26, 2006, Source: AlterNet

Sometimes a broken record is the only music we've got.

When talk isn't cheap

Posted on: Jan 25, 2006, Source: AlterNet

All it takes is one Senator to start a filbuster on Alito.

The people have had enough

Posted on: Jan 23, 2006, Source: AlterNet

Just because we have an Executive Branch that acts as if it's invincible doesn't mean we should respond as if it is.

How soon after having a CHILD can I have SEX?

Posted on: Jan 23, 2006, Source: AlterNet

Why you should be very afraid of the government's supeona of Google searches.

This one goes out to N. and T.

Posted on: Jan 22, 2006, Source: AlterNet

For all the women I know who find a way out of no way.

At the "zenith of his powers"

Posted on: Jan 20, 2006, Source: AlterNet

The Bush administration releases 42 pages of "we can do whatever we want."

We have a winner

Posted on: Jan 19, 2006, Source: AlterNet

And a lot of grumblers.

I don't know how she does it

Posted on: Jan 17, 2006, Source: AlterNet

She's one single woman with three children and a huge country to run. How will Michelle Bachelet, Chile's new president-elect, do it all and why do I like her so much?

And we still aren't satisfied

Posted on: Jan 16, 2006, Source: AlterNet

"“No, No, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until 'justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.'" --Martin Luther King, Jr., 1963

Why I now love New Jersey

Posted on: Jan 12, 2006, Source: AlterNet

Oh, just go see it for yourself.

Everybody Loves John (Sorry Sam)

Posted on: Jan 11, 2006, Source: AlterNet

Whose confirmation hearing is this anyway?

The 2006 Progressive Motto Finalists

Posted on: Jan 10, 2006, Source: AlterNet

See who made the cut and vote for the winner.

The Imperial President's hit man

Posted on: Jan 9, 2006, Source: AlterNet

Alito is in the wrong place at the wrong time.

When is a law not a law

Posted on: Jan 5, 2006, Source: AlterNet

When Bush crosses his fingers behind his back.

The New New Deal Contest

Posted on: Jan 4, 2006, Source: AlterNet

A new year, a new way of looking at it all.

Five Stories Making the Buzz In 2006

Posted on: Dec 31, 2005, Source: AlterNet

How progressives can jump-start the national conversation about five of the most important issues of 2006.

Name that scandal

Posted on: Dec 22, 2005, Source: AlterNet

The administration tries to weasel out of its biggest scandal yet.

First Snoopgate resignation!

Posted on: Dec 21, 2005, Source: AlterNet

Nope, it's not who you hoped it was...

Those damn American immigrants

Posted on: Dec 20, 2005, Source: AlterNet

The left-leaning Southerns and the rich white Northerners are battling it out for Mexico's soul.

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