Daphne Merkin, The Daily Beast. November 20, 2008. Change may well be coming to Washington. But the public discourse about women has taken several steps backward.
Rupa Dev, New America Media. November 15, 2008. The results of elections 2008 are good news for immigration reform, but there's still a potentially rocky road ahead.
Joshua Holland, AlterNet. November 10, 2008. Outside of a few social issues, Americans are firmly in the progressive camp, but that hasn't prevented a lot of bloviating to the contrary.
AlterNet Staff, AlterNet AlterNet: PEEK. November 9, 2008. The results of the Minnesota Senate race pitting the incumbent against Al Franken are close enough to trigger a recount.
Joshua Holland, AlterNet. November 4, 2008. The country is shifting; new groups of voters are expected to come to the polls, and battles are raging over key ballot initiatives.
Lea Lane, Huffington Post. November 3, 2008. Unmarried women will be to progressives what evangelicals were to conservatives. They will determine the future of this country.
Michael Kieschnick, AlterNet. November 3, 2008. Make sure you signal your company's commitment to its civic duty to ensure a fair election in every part of your organizational chart.
AlterNetNovember 1, 2008. This election, California voters have a huge chance -- and a special responsibility -- to vote on dramatic progressive reforms.
Robert S. Eshelman, Tomdispatch.com. October 30, 2008. A mass defection from the Republican Party may be underway in counties that were once GOP strongholds. Call it the reverse Bradley Effect.
Joseph Romm, Huffington Post. October 29, 2008. Sarah Palin just helped clarify McCain's double-talk on global warming: He doesn't think the government should do anything to stop it.
Mark Klempner, AlterNet. October 29, 2008. The Bush administration used a politics of fear to diminish our ability to think critically and to erode our capacity to love.
Pat Alviso, AlterNet. October 25, 2008. After all, if my son can buck up and do yet another tour of duty in Iraq, I can face a crowd of Palin supporters.
Tara DePorte, AlterNet. October 23, 2008. With an economic crisis, foreclosures, and lives lost in Iraq and Afghanistan, our attention has been diverted from key issues like our planet.
AlterNet Staff, AlterNet. October 23, 2008. Presenting a roundup of Sarah Palin's most hilarious, shocking and scary statements since she was added to the McCain ticket.
Marie Cocco, Washington Post Writers Group. October 22, 2008. It's time to restore some common sense to the presidential campaign finance system -- before we don't have any system at all.
