Tana Ganeva, AlterNet AlterNet: Reproductive Justice and Gender. September 15, 2009. Maher seems to think that physically assaulting women is a super funny joke.
Ryan Grim, Huffington Post. September 15, 2009. In eight states and the District of Columbia, being the victim of domestic violence is considered a pre-existing condition by insurance companies.
Tana Ganeva, AlterNet AlterNet: Reproductive Justice and Gender. July 20, 2009. Isn't beating up women one of those things where an "I'm sorry, I'll never do it again" doesn't make everything OK?
Lynn Harris, AlterNet. June 26, 2009. Intimate partner violence doesn't always show up in police photos as swollen bruises. Instead, the evidence might be the victim's pregnant belly.
Charlotte Hilton Andersen, Huffington Post. June 17, 2009. Rape is vicious, cruel, painful and damaging. I shouldn't have to explain this to you. But from the way our media treats rape, apparently I do.
PZ Myers, Pharyngula AlterNet: PEEK. May 21, 2009. Can we stop equating religion and morality now? They never seem to have much to do with one another.
Nick Turse, Tomdispatch.com. May 11, 2009. Even in good times, life for poor working women can be an obstacle-filled struggle to get by. In an economic crisis, it can be hell.
Ann Jones, Tomdispatch.com. April 6, 2009. No society that sends its men abroad for war can expect them to come home and be at peace, as returning Iraqi vets are proving in alarming numbers.
Andy Wright, AlterNet. March 24, 2009. The media frenzy that followed Rihanna's assault was predictably crass and damaging to domestic violence victims.
AlterNet Staff, AlterNet. March 19, 2009. Rihanna's abuse has sparked a national discussion about domestic violence. Unfortunately, most of it is offensive and unproductive.
Lea Lane, Huffington Post. March 13, 2009. On average, it takes six attempts before a woman leaves an abusive relationship. How could I have accepted the unacceptable? Judge for yourself.
Amanda Marcotte, Pandagon. March 4, 2009. Abusers often taunt their victims with just this question, because they grasp the psychological power and the self-esteem erosion behind it.
Mark Townsend, Paul Harris, Independent UK. February 9, 2009. Dozens of hunger strikes, beatings, instances of forced feeding and other atrocities have reportedly reduced Guantanamo to near chaos.
Lisa Derrick, Firedoglake AlterNet: War on Iraq. December 22, 2008. U.S.-backed Iraq Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has condemned al-Zaidi's actions, but reportedly he will not want to alienate al-Zaidi's supporters.
Laila Al-Arian, AlterNet. November 26, 2008. A Texas jury's guilty decision in the nation's largest terrorism financing trial since 9/11 reawakens the injustices of Bush's War on Terror.
Michelle Chen, The Women's International Perspective. August 6, 2008. Legal protections for immigrant survivors of domestic violence are growing more complex and in some ways, more precarious.
Editorial Staff, Boston Globe. August 1, 2008. An undocumented pregnant woman faces the horror and neglect of the U.S. justice system ... giving birth only to have her child stripped from her.
Lucinda Marshall, Feminist Peace Network AlterNet: Reproductive Justice and Gender. July 1, 2008. Southern Baptist preacher says sinful women rebel against their husbands' God-given authority.
Ellen Goodman, Truthdig. May 23, 2008. The call to understand the polygamous sect as just another unique corner of multicultural America is relativism run amok.
