On AlterNet: fringe

Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "fringe"

3 Anti-Authoritarian TV Shows that Grapple with America's Security State

Julianne Escobedo Shepherd, AlterNet. October 2, 2011.

Three new shows examine ways the USA Patriot Act can play out in our daily lives.

Fetus-Shaped Potatoes? Going Undercover Inside the Weird World of Right-Wing Abortion Foes

Ann Neumann, AlterNet. November 3, 2009.

I went undercover to a Pro-Life Federation conference. What I found there was not "middle America" or even conservative America. It was fringe America.

Rachel Maddow: Republicans & Their Small Angry Tent

Rachel Maddow, The Rachel Maddow Show AlterNet: Politics. September 13, 2009.

Their path to political irrelevance continues unabated.

Is the U.S. on the Brink of Fascism?

Sara Robinson, Campaign for America's Future. August 7, 2009.

There are dangerous currents running through America's politics and the way we confront them is crucial.

Armed Revolt in the Obama Era? Right-Wing Gun Nuts Share Their Paranoid Worldview

Max Blumenthal, The Daily Beast. May 1, 2009.

Gun show enthusiasts make it abundantly clear why they're stocking up on firepower.

'Centrists' Are Running the Asylum

David Sirota, Creators Syndicate. July 18, 2008.

Washington's pundits and politicians have waged an ongoing propaganda campaign to pass off crazy, fringe politics as reasonable and mainstream.