Steven Wishnia, AlterNet. September 26, 2008. Enraged by the prospect of $700 billion of their taxes going to speculators, hundreds of protesters hit Wall Street on Thursday.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson, AlterNet. June 13, 2008. America's history of hate and violence is more than enough reason to be concerned about the safety of prominent political figures like Barack Obama.
Pam Spaulding, Pam's House Blend AlterNet: PEEK. May 12, 2008. A ruling in New York held that same-sex marriages performed elsewhere must be recognized by the state.
Jessica Wakeman, Huffington Post. April 14, 2008. If you were to only read New York Magazine's 'This Is New York' issue, you'd think the city was made up of men and white people.
John Tarleton, AlterNet. March 27, 2008. With a progressive new governor and state Republicans on the verge of extinction, New York may soon be ready to "drop the Rock".
John Nichols, The Nation AlterNet: PEEK. March 13, 2008. Paterson has been handed a remarkable opportunity to be not just a state officials but a national leader.
Lindsay Beyerstein, Majikthise AlterNet: PEEK. March 12, 2008. Spitzer has absolutely no excuse. In the current political climate, selective prosecution is a fact of life.
Christy Hardin Smith, Firedoglake AlterNet: PEEK. March 11, 2008. This level of minutiae in the descriptions of the investigation suggests an FBI or USAtty's office source.
Peter Rothberg, The Nation AlterNet: Video. March 11, 2008. His two most obvious, if not salient, features are that he's blind and he's black, which would make him the first blind governor in the country.
Jane Hamsher, Firedoglake AlterNet: PEEK. March 11, 2008. How did Spitzer's name get leaked to the media, and who did it? Didn't happen to Dave Vitter.
Sam Pizzigati, Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality. March 5, 2008. Enormous accumulations of wealth are hitting New Yorkers where it really hurts -- at the deli counter.
Michelle Chen, The Wip. January 15, 2008. Far from besieged forests and melting icebergs, American cities are a new front in the environmental movement.
Lisa Gray-Garcia, AlterNet. December 4, 2007. As the film "Giuliani Time" reveals, rarely has one man so successfully harnessed the hatred and ignorance of the U.S. public for poor people and people of color.
Margaret Kimberley, Black Agenda Report. November 8, 2007. If a potential Giuliani presidency in any way resembles a Giuliani mayoralty, then the country would be in for a truly awful time.
Jane Hamsher, Firedoglake AlterNet: Video. October 31, 2007. Elliot Spitzer rightly called out Lou Dobbs for his race baiting in the New York drivers' license controversy.
Jane Hamsher, AlterNet: PEEK. October 10, 2007. Jane Hamsher: The second time was during "God Bless America", which Rudy did not appear to know the words to.
Nick Turse, Tomdispatch.com. October 1, 2007. High-tech surveillance and undercover spying on protests by the NYPD have soared -- this is what happens when the "War on Terror" comes home.
Howie Klein, AlterNet: PEEK. August 22, 2007. Howie Klein: The culprit is "a seasoned practitioner of hard-edged politics who has worked for Nixon, Reagan and for George W. Bush in the 2000 recount battle."
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