Robert Dreyfuss, The Nation AlterNet: PEEK. September 23, 2009. Sources say Stanley McChrystal may consider quitting if Obama fails to give him 15,000 additional troops in Afghanistan.
Aimee Allison, AlterNet. September 22, 2009. The Discovery Channel's series spreads dangerous myths, focusing on the worst racial stereotypes and uses sensational police footage to depict crimes of poverty.
Allison Kilkenny, True/Slant AlterNet: PEEK. August 21, 2009. The New York Times has apparently failed to learn the most basic lessons from the global financial disaster.
Barbara Ehrenreich, The New York Times. August 19, 2009. If you're living on the streets, engaging in the biological necessities of life -- like sitting, sleeping, lying down or loitering -- will get you in jail.
Joe Bageant, JoeBageant.com. July 18, 2009. "We're starting to hear a little discussion about the white underclass... Mainly because so many middle class folks are terrified of falling into it."
Chris Hedges, Truthdig. July 14, 2009. If you defraud banks and customers of billions, you get taxpayer money. But if you are poor like Tearyan Brown of Trenton, N.J., you are in trouble.
Nancy Maclean, Boston Review. June 13, 2009. Might the nation's churches, synagogues, mosques, and temples again have a role in rescuing a wayward economy?
Amy DePaul, AlterNet. June 1, 2009. Social conservatives scored a victory when the Obama Administration decided to keep a Bush program promoting marriage.
Nick Turse, Tomdispatch.com. May 11, 2009. Even in good times, life for poor working women can be an obstacle-filled struggle to get by. In an economic crisis, it can be hell.
Joel Berg, Seven Stories. February 4, 2009. In a country with enough food and money to feed the world twice over, 1-in-8 people struggles to put food on his or her table.
Chris Hedges, Truthdig. November 27, 2008. The swelling numbers waiting outside homeless shelters and food pantries around the country have grown by at least 30 percent since the summer.
Sarah Anderson, John Cavanagh, Foreign Policy in Focus. November 25, 2008. Neglecting aid to the developing world, and fixating on the financial mess, will negatively affect Western nations.
Maggie Mahar, Health Beat. October 20, 2008. A new report reveals the degree to which a child's health is determined by the hand he or she draws at birth.
John Dolan, AlterNet. October 15, 2008. I just went through the hell of going from grad school-level poverty to the real thing. Here are my lessons learned.
Mimi Abramovitz, Women's eNews. September 25, 2008. Why is it that the rich and reckless accept "welfare" for themselves while rejecting it for those who need it most, particularly woman.
