Julianne Escobedo Shepherd, AlterNet. June 6, 2011.
Having cyber-infidelities may be a privacy issue, but by lying about his sexy TwitPics, Rep. Anthony Weiner may have put important progressive issues at risk.
Jodi L. Jacobson, RH Reality Check. November 5, 2010.
The next election that matters: the battle for who will lead House Democrats. The outcome will show just how far to the right Democrats are willing to move.
David Swanson, After Downing Street. June 16, 2010.
Obama has gone further than Bush in claiming the powers to spy without warrant, imprison without charge, torture, assassinate, occupy and operate in unprecedented secrecy.
Once Rep. Bart Stupak announced he would vote for the Senate version of the health-care reform bill that came before the House, Democrats had their votes.
Quoting scripture, spouting lies and blowing dog-whistles to violence, the right wing's queen of crazy takes center stage in desperate, last-gasp fight against health-care reform.
It took a virulently anti-choice measure to pass the House's health care reform legislation. Progressives are strategizing how to keep it from the final bill.
Jill Filipovic, Feministe AlterNet: PEEK. November 10, 2009.
Find out how your representative voted on and call their office, to thank them or to tell them that you'll be supporting a pro-choice democrat in the next primary.
The health-care bill passed by the House will expand access to health care. But millions of women are about to lose coverage they currently have and need.
The health care bills wending through Congress are getting a bad rap. And the major culprit is the Congressional Budget Office, and its chief, Doug Elmendorf.
In the coming weeks we will have an all-out public war with the insurance industry. It will decide whether we pass comprehensive reform or once again fall short at the bitter end.
Lindsay Beyerstein, The Media Consortium AlterNet: PEEK. October 21, 2009.
A Congressional Budget Office report suggesting that a robust public option would actually cut the deficit seems to have lit a fire under Speaker Pelosi.
Burrowing inside the radical right's gathering of astroturfers and mouthpieces, AlterNet Reporter Adele Stan discovers what makes the anti-health reform machine tick.
