Melissa McEwan, Shakesville AlterNet: PEEK. November 29, 2008. A worker died after being trampled when hundreds of shoppers smashed through the doors of a Wal-Mart.
Martha Rosenberg, AlterNet. September 18, 2008. In six years, Abbott Laboratories' Humira has gone from wonder drug to wonder-how-it-got-approved drug.
Lindsay Beyerstein, AlterNet AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. July 4, 2008. Conservative Republican railed against "Negro hoodlums", opposed the Voting Rights Act, backed terrorists, and died an unrepentant segregationist.
Maggie Mahar -- BAD, DON'T USE, Health Beat. May 17, 2008. Easing pain is arguably as important as saving a life. But far too many U.S. physicians focus only on the latter.
Viviana Zelizer, Huffington Post. September 8, 2007. We are about to find out as the lawsuit filed by the parents of an 11-year-old who was killed on 9/11 is about to come to trial.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson, AlterNet. January 3, 2007. Believe it or not, in America, in 2007, there's a forbidden zone where blacks risk death if they enter.
Robert Scheer, AlterNet. January 3, 2007. The hanging of Saddam Hussein was an act of barbarism that makes a mockery of President Bush's claim it was "an important milestone on Iraq's course to becoming a democracy."
Norman Solomon, AlterNet. October 12, 2006. How does the horrific estimated Iraqi death toll -- around 600,000 -- correlate with the U.S. media's evasive coverage of the war?