Stories by Sara Robinson

Sara Robinson, MS, APF is a social futurist and the editor of AlterNet's Vision page. Follow her on Twitter, or subscribe to AlterNet's Vision newsletter for weekly updates.

7 Ways We Can Fight Back Against the Rising Fascist Threat

Posted on: Aug 12, 2009, Source: Campaign for America's Future

Why the right-wing extremism must be stopped in its tracks or else we face the threat of outright violence and goon rule.

Is the U.S. on the Brink of Fascism?

Posted on: Aug 6, 2009, Source: Campaign for America's Future

There are dangerous currents running through America's politics and the way we confront them is crucial.

We've Been Trapped Inside a Bad Health Care System So Long, We Don't Even Know How Much We're Missing

Posted on: Jun 25, 2009, Source: Campaign for America's Future

Our current system has robbed us of the chance to save, educate ourselves, see the world and live to a robust old age.

9 Conservative Myths About Right-Wing Domestic Terrorism

Posted on: Jun 19, 2009, Source: Campaign for America's Future

This is terrorism we're dealing with. We can't afford to let ourselves be distracted by spin. It's time to set the record straight with the facts.

Does the Right Want a Civil War?

Posted on: Jun 13, 2009, Source: Orcinus

People are being shot dead at the rate of several per month now. And it's figures on the Right that are putting the killers up to it.

Progressives Have a Chance to Dominate American Politics for the Next 40 Years

Posted on: Jun 9, 2009, Source: AlterNet

The tides of history and demographics, and the way the world works are on our side.

The Far Right's First 100 Days: Getting More Extreme by the Day

Posted on: May 5, 2009, Source: Campaign for America's Future

Their talk is turning ugly, and it's not unthinkable that we could be in for a wave of domestic terrorism unseen since the mid-'90s.

10 Reasons Why Conservatives' Fiscal Ideas Are Dangerous

Posted on: Feb 26, 2009, Source: Campaign for America's Future

It would almost be funny if their ideas about spending didn't lead us into the deepest financial catastrophe in nearly a century.

For Decades, Right-Wingers Have Pushed Paranoia and Xenophobic Politics and Called It 'Moral Clarity'

Posted on: Jan 27, 2009, Source: Campaign for America's Future

Conservatives live in a world of seething aggression that most progressives can't even fathom.

10 Absurd Conservative Myths About Obama's Recovery Plan

Posted on: Jan 8, 2009, Source: Campaign for America's Future

Instead of taking accountability for this mess, conservatives are firing off the latest B.S. storm. Here's what you need to know to fire back.

Worried About Thanksgiving Fights with Right-Wing Family Members?

Posted on: Nov 25, 2008, Source: Blog for Our Future

How to counter 10 of the most common myths conservatives believe about progressives.

Want to Shut Conservatives Out of Power for Good? Implement Universal Health Care

Posted on: Oct 30, 2008, Source: Campaign for America's Future

Giving Americans universal access to health care will undermine some of the deepest and most persistent myths of the conservative worldview.

11 Racist Lies Conservatives Tell to Avoid Blaming Wall Street for the Financial Crisis

Posted on: Oct 1, 2008, Source: Campaign for America's Future

Conservatives are twisting the facts beyond the breaking point to support their revisionist history. But don't be fooled.

Debunked: Ten Conservative Myths About National Security

Posted on: Sep 14, 2008, Source: Campaign for America's Future

Going after the most dangerous myths spun by conservatives after 9/11.

More Clarity About Abuse, Intermarriage, Child Breeders, and the Fundamentalist Church of Later Day Saints

Posted on: Apr 25, 2008, Source: Orcinus

Getting past the titillation of government raids.

Are FLDS Women Brainwashed?

Posted on: Apr 18, 2008, Source: Orcinus

What drives a woman to submit to a fundamentalist Mormon cult?

McCain Shows Us How to Kill an Army

Posted on: Apr 16, 2008, Source: TomPaine.com

McCain is gunning to tear up an ancient contract between a nation and its veterans, denying security to the very people who defend ours.

The Real McCain on Race and Immigration

Posted on: Apr 10, 2008, Source: Group News Blog

It's not a pretty picture.

How Did Conservatives Convince the Public to Think Differently About Government?

Posted on: Mar 14, 2008, Source: Blog for Our Future

Part III of a series exploring how conservatives took their worldview to the streets, undermining long-held views about government and society.

Learning from How Conservatives Push Their Cultural Worldview

Posted on: Mar 13, 2008, Source: Blog for Our Future

Part II of a series on the strategies used by conservatives to promote their agenda, and the lessons progressives can learn to promote their own.

What We Can Learn from Conservatives About Winning in Politics

Posted on: Mar 12, 2008, Source: TomPaine.com

The same strategies that allowed Conservatives to take control of the country can help us undo their damage. (Part one in a series.)

When Change Is Not Enough: Seven Steps to Revolution

Posted on: Feb 21, 2008, Source: Campaign for America's Future

If history is any indication, we may be on the road to violent revolution. We got here because of the conservatives' war against liberal government.

Private RU-486 Confounds Anti-Abortionists: Who Can We Harass Now?

Posted on: Feb 13, 2008, Source: Group News Blog

If women no longer need clinics to obtain abortions, what will anti-choice terrorists bomb?

10 Myths About Canadian Health Care, Busted

Posted on: Feb 5, 2008, Source: TomPaine.com

We must get past a pile of disinformation.

Feminists Unite to Combat Chris Matthews' Sexism

Posted on: Jan 17, 2008, Source: Group News Blog

Hey Chris Matthews, any desperate hope you may have had that this whole ugly sexism business would just blow over, just give it up now.

White Supremacist Leader Insists Ron Paul Is Racist

Posted on: Dec 28, 2007, Source: Orcinus

Obviously, this isn't what Paul's supporters want to hear.

MoveOn Sets Its Sights on Facebook Privacy Violations

Posted on: Nov 23, 2007, Source: Group News Blog

Sara Robinson: We have an inalienable right to be the keepers of our own privacy gates, and not just around the holidays.

Young People Rejecting Christianity, Have Perception of Religion as Homophobic

Posted on: Oct 10, 2007, Source: AlterNet

Sara Robinson: Evangelical Christianity won't go away, but there's a shift in its essential character afoot, which may even reverse the trend toward minority status over time.

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