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Drew Westen, AlterNet. December 23, 2009. [301 total comments]
Somehow Obama has managed to turn a base of new and progressive voters he himself energized in 2008 into the likely stay-at-home voters of 2010.
Bill Moyers, Matt Taibbi, Robert Kuttner, Bill Moyers Journal. December 21, 2009. [229 total comments]
Could a crushing defeat on health reform teach Democrats to stop prioritizing corporate interests?
Scott Thill, AlterNet. December 19, 2009. [223 total comments]
Tired of getting pushed around by faceless big business? Here are 10 ways to push back!
Clancy Sigal, Comment Is Free. December 24, 2009. [213 total comments]
Obama's cruel and pointless refusal to ban child-killing landmines was my personal breaking point against the candidate I worked hard to elect.
Rev. Howard Bess, Consortium News. December 23, 2009. [194 total comments]
Beautiful as it is, the story of the birth of Jesus is a myth born of the political needs of early Christians.
Sam Pizzigati, Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality. December 22, 2009. [156 total comments]
As ordinary Americans reel from the Great Recession, these gluttonous all-stars continue to claw in absurd amounts of money.
Rich Benjamin, AlterNet. December 19, 2009. [155 total comments]
As the Census "time bomb" ticks, fear mounts over a perceived loss of whites' raw power - demographic, social, economic, and political.
* Staff, Media Matters for America. December 22, 2009. [118 total comments]
Beck's unbridled ignorance and confidence in his own manipulative half-truths and lies make him the most dangerously effective misinformer of 2009.
AlterNetDecember 19, 2009. [115 total comments]
Have you been missing out on one of AlterNet's most popular authors? Here are 10 of Freston's best works from the year.
Greta Christina, AlterNet. December 19, 2009. [115 total comments]
Even though the standard winter holidays are supposedly religious, there are ample reasons for atheists to celebrate, too.
Juan Cole, Informed Comment. December 22, 2009. [109 total comments]
Here are my picks for the top ten worst things about the wretched period, which will continue to follow us until citizens stand up to fix them.
Kathryn Joyce, Religion Dispatches. December 21, 2009. [105 total comments]
Thanks to anti-abortion forces in Congress and other culture warriors, female soldiers are not protected by the Constitution they defend.
Joshua Holland, AlterNetAlterNet: World. December 21, 2009. [92 total comments]
As intellectually dishonest as one could get.
Harold Pollack, AlterNet. December 22, 2009. [87 total comments]
We can all agree that the Senate health care bill is far from perfect. What now?
Joshua Holland, AlterNetAlterNet: Politics. December 23, 2009. [86 total comments]
Can we just have a reality-based discussion of the policy?
Peter Asmus, East Bay Express. December 24, 2009. [68 total comments]
A dozen nonprofits are going right after the company's greed, and the outcome will likely have repercussions in the oil industry for years to come.
Rebecca Solnit, Tomdispatch.com. December 21, 2009. [66 total comments]
Why does it seem as if we're in an action movie in which the fate of the Earth is at stake?
Don Hazen, AlterNet. December 23, 2009. [62 total comments]
Recently we asked our readers to rank the most influential progressives. Here are the results.
John Nichols, TheNation.com. December 19, 2009. [60 total comments]
Sen. Harry Reid and the Senate Dems aren't winning any friends among the broad base of voters who support reproductive rights.
David Sirota, AlterNet. December 19, 2009. [59 total comments]
Dean's attacks on the Lieberman-gutted health insurance "reform" bill are creating the political space for the final version to be better and more progressive.
AlterNetDecember 19, 2009. [59 total comments]
'The governments which moved so swiftly to save the banks have bickered and filibustered while the biosphere burns.'
Kevin Connor, AlterNet. December 22, 2009. [54 total comments]
Barney Frank takes pride in being the Left's darling, but he's almost entirely funded by Wall Street and his votes show it.
Bruce Wilson, AlterNetAlterNet: Politics. December 19, 2009. [53 total comments]
Lou Engle has led GOP Senators in nationally broadcast prayer and anointed Huckabee and Gingrich
Marjorie Cohn, AlterNet. December 23, 2009. [46 total comments]
Some 30 percent of all U.S. deaths in Afghanistan have occurred during Obama's presidency. His escalation of that war is not what the Nobel committee envisioned.
Joshua Holland, AlterNetAlterNet: Politics. December 24, 2009. [41 total comments]
Maybe I'm missing something.
Anonymous, New America Media. December 24, 2009. [40 total comments]
Veteran with PTSD: "I don't feel comfortable at home anymore. My threat tolerance and response to perceived threats is so finely tuned that I felt safer in Iraq. "
Booman, AlterNetAlterNet: Health and Wellness. December 20, 2009. [39 total comments]
Here's why.
Matt Gertz, Media Matters for AmericaAlterNet: Health and Wellness. December 23, 2009. [39 total comments]
No chance now to try to preserve her credibility now.
Steve Benen, Washington MonthlyAlterNet: PEEK. December 22, 2009. [37 total comments]
Franken's measure passed, 68 to 30.
Joshua Holland, AlterNetAlterNet: Rights and Liberties. December 21, 2009. [30 total comments]
Wigged out cops on steroids is as frightening as one could imagine.
Daniel Tencer, Raw Story. December 22, 2009. [30 total comments]
According to a new book, Osama bin Laden attempted to assassinate President Bill Clinton during a summit in the Philippines in 1996.
Jeremy Scahill, Rebel Reports. December 21, 2009. [30 total comments]
Contrary to popular belief, the U.S. actually has 189,000 personnel on the ground in Afghanistan right now -- and that number is quickly rising.
Steve Benen, Washington MonthlyAlterNet: Politics. December 22, 2009. [28 total comments]
The award was bequeathed by Politifact, an independent fact-checker.
Bill Gates, Sr., Chuck Collins, AlterNet. December 21, 2009. [26 total comments]
What horrors will befall our nation's wealthy when one of the most bizarre twists in tax legislation in history comes to pass?
Elizabeth Black, AlterNet. December 23, 2009. [26 total comments]
Many women would be surprised to learn that men often fake orgasms. But why? Our limited, patriarchal view of sexuality, of course.
Amanda Terkel, Think ProgressAlterNet: World. December 21, 2009. [25 total comments]
Under a new policy enacted by Major Gen. Anthony Cucolo, troops expecting a baby face court martial and possible prison -- and so do the men who made them pregnant.
Steve M., No More Mister Nice BlogAlterNet: Politics. December 19, 2009. [23 total comments]
They should let the Dems hang this albatross around their necks, no?
CREW Staff, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington. December 24, 2009. [22 total comments]
Madoff, Sanford and Murtha are just a few who made it onto the top 10 list of the nation's most ethically challenged players of the year.
Adele Stan, AlterNetAlterNet: Politics. December 24, 2009. [21 total comments]
With no public option or Medicare buy-in, the Senate's health-care reform bill passes in the early hours of Christmas Eve.
Kari Lydersen, AlterNet. December 22, 2009. [21 total comments]
In an economy structured around industrial agriculture, sustaining small farms can be a challenge. 'Slow money' economics could be the answer.
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