Stories by Sarah Seltzer

Sarah Seltzer is an associate editor at AlterNet and a freelance writer based in New York City. Her work has been published at the Nation, the Christian Science Monitor, Jezebel and the Washington Post. Follow her on Twitter at @sarahmseltzer and find her work at sarahmseltzer.com.

Maddow And Lawmaker Behind Satirical Anti-Vasectomy Bill: Let's Get GOP Out from Under Women's Skirts

Posted on: Feb 24, 2012, Source: AlterNet

Update: Governor Comes Out Against Trans-Vaginal Ultrasound Provision in Virginia

Posted on: Feb 22, 2012, Source: AlterNet

Obama Plans to Slash Corporate Tax Rate And Close Loopholes: Why It May Not Work

Posted on: Feb 22, 2012, Source: AlterNet

Mitt Romney's Most Robotic Speech Ever

Posted on: Feb 22, 2012, Source: AlterNet

Has the Cop Who Injured Scott Olsen Been Identified?

Posted on: Feb 22, 2012, Source: AlterNet

Obama Sings the Blues with BB King and Buddy Guy

Posted on: Feb 22, 2012, Source: AlterNet

Tonight: Tune In for a National Teach-in to Take Back the American Dream

Posted on: Feb 21, 2012, Source: AlterNet

Maddow on What Republicans Really Do When In Power: Legislate Sex

Posted on: Feb 21, 2012, Source: AlterNet

Comedians Take On Bishops, Church, and GOP Men in Birth Control "Controversy"

Posted on: Feb 21, 2012, Source: AlterNet

Another Right-Wing Politician Turns On the "Radical" Girl Scouts--Because Michelle Obama is Honorary President?

Posted on: Feb 21, 2012, Source: AlterNet

'Downton Abbey' and 'The Help'--What Their Nostalgic Portrayals of Domestic Service Get Wrong

Posted on: Feb 19, 2012, Source: AlterNet

What is with our obsession with servants? And are these shows letting us off the hook?

4 States Where Right-Wingers Are Promoting Shocking Measures to Keep Women Barefoot and Pregnant

Posted on: Feb 17, 2012, Source: AlterNet

The birth control skirmish is not the only regressive, anti-woman, anti-science battle being waged in this country.

Daily Show Takes on Right-Wing Insanity on Women in Combat: Should Women Expect to Be "Paid Slightly Less, Raped Slightly More?"

Posted on: Feb 15, 2012, Source: AlterNet

Cenk Uygur Lets Loose on Andrew Breitbart's Occupy Smears

Posted on: Feb 15, 2012, Source: AlterNet

Colbert on Obama's "War on Religion": Using Contraception is Cock-Blocking Jesus

Posted on: Feb 15, 2012, Source: AlterNet

No One Showing Up to Bristol Palin's Book Tour--So She's Recruiting on Craigslist

Posted on: Feb 15, 2012, Source: AlterNet

Valentine's Day Political Roundup: Occupations, Protests, and Newt Gingrich's Romantic Plans?

Posted on: Feb 14, 2012, Source: AlterNet

Freaky: Private Prison Co. Offers Cash for State Prison, While Racial Disparities Continue

Posted on: Feb 14, 2012, Source: AlterNet

Occupiers Mic-Check Santorum as His Surge Continues--Then Are Tasered

Posted on: Feb 14, 2012, Source: AlterNet

"The Vagina Ideologues:" Jon Stewart Hammers the Bishops on Contraception

Posted on: Feb 14, 2012, Source: AlterNet

Maher: Conservatives Are the Ones Dividing the Country

Posted on: Feb 11, 2012, Source: AlterNet

How Zealous Clergy and Their Media Enablers Are Manufacturing a Controversy Over Birth Control Coverage

Posted on: Feb 8, 2012, Source: AlterNet

The real opposition here isn't about conscience, it's about women and sex.

Look Forward to Trump in Charge of Foreign Policy in Romney Administration?

Posted on: Feb 8, 2012, Source: AlterNet

Which IT Companies Are the Greenest, Asks Greenpeace? Google, Yes, Apple, No.

Posted on: Feb 8, 2012, Source: AlterNet

Michelle Obama and a Spandex-Clad Jimmy Fallon Compete in Feats of Strength (With a Cameo from Bo!)

Posted on: Feb 8, 2012, Source: AlterNet

Good News: Court Rules Gay Marriage-Denying Proposition 8 (Proposition "H8") Unconstitutional

Posted on: Feb 7, 2012, Source: AlterNet

Goodbye Press Freedoms: More Journalists Arrested Covering Occupy, Occupy Tweets Subpoenaed

Posted on: Feb 7, 2012, Source: AlterNet

In L.A. School, Entire Staff Removed Due to Disgusting, "Lewd" Child Abuse

Posted on: Feb 7, 2012, Source: AlterNet

Karen Handel, Right Wing VP of Komen Quits Over Planned Parenthood Flap

Posted on: Feb 7, 2012, Source: AlterNet

Busting Through the Media Firestorm: 6 Essential Facts About the Komen Controversy

Posted on: Feb 6, 2012, Source: AlterNet

How many of the rumors are inflated, and how many get at the real heart of why people responded to this decision with so much outrage?

6 Things You Need To Know About the Komen Foundation/Planned Parenthood Controversy (Updated: Komen Reverses Decision)

Posted on: Feb 2, 2012, Source: AlterNet

Whether Americans were suspicious of Komen to begin with or just fed up with the politicization of women's health, this feels like the last straw.

Nevada Tea Party Falling Apart as GOP Race Moves Out West

Posted on: Feb 1, 2012, Source: AlterNet

Romney: "I'm Not Concerned With the Very Poor" (While Fellow .001%ers Pony Up for His Super PAC)

Posted on: Feb 1, 2012, Source: AlterNet

Romney Tries to Sing, Continues Existence as Cultural Laughingstock

Posted on: Jan 31, 2012, Source: AlterNet

Hilarious: Stephen Colbert Chases Jon Stewart Around NYC After Their Super PAC Tops A Millon Bucks

Posted on: Jan 31, 2012, Source: AlterNet

"Eye of the Tiger" Group Sues Gingrich: Don't Use Our Song!

Posted on: Jan 31, 2012, Source: AlterNet

Dem Heroine: You Say Ultrasounds for Women Wanting Abortion, I Say Rectal Exams for Men Needing Viagra

Posted on: Jan 30, 2012, Source: AlterNet

More Corruption Arrests at Another UK Murdoch Paper

Posted on: Jan 28, 2012, Source: AlterNet

Bill Maher Rips into Gingrich's Saul Alinsky Smears: "Who the F-- is Saul Alinsky?"

Posted on: Jan 28, 2012, Source: AlterNet

Taibbi: Good Foreclosure Deal Could Open the Door to Ending Up With Half of Wall Street in Jail

Posted on: Jan 28, 2012, Source: AlterNet

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