Marco Lanzagorta, PopMatters. April 6, 2008. "Die Hard" is a militaristic fantasy that serves as an allegory for an outnumbered and out-gunned America.
Sara Robinson, TomPaine.com. March 13, 2008. The same strategies that allowed Conservatives to take control of the country can help us undo their damage. (Part one in a series.)
Steven Reynolds, The All Spin Zone AlterNet: Election 2008. February 5, 2008. The songs are critical and ironic concerning Republican ideals. Shades of Reagan and Springsteen, eh?
Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog AlterNet: Election 2008. January 25, 2008. Bill Clinton’s ill-tempered and ill-founded attacks on Barack Obama are doing no credit to the former President, his legacy, or his wife’s campaign.
Will Durst, AlterNet. January 18, 2008. The GOP could roll into their National Convention with an entire starting basketball team of prospective candidates posing as Ronald Reagan.
Jim Hightower, AlterNet AlterNet: Election 2008. January 16, 2008. The real Reagan certainly doesn't deserve the heights of Rushmore, but neither did he fall to the depth of today's extremists who claim his image.
Adam Howard, AlterNet AlterNet: Election 2008. January 15, 2008. Sam Seder asks a McCain supporter, "If Reagan is a 10, what is McCain?", "An 8," replies the Republican.
Steve Benen, The Carpetbagger Report AlterNet: Video. January 11, 2008. The remaining GOP '08 contenders desperately try to out-Reagan each other, oblivious to how pathetic it makes all of them seem.
Amanda Marcotte, Pandagon AlterNet: PEEK. November 15, 2007. Amanda Marcotte: For instance there's Reagan's non-subtle signaling of support for the murders of 3 civil rights workers in Mississippi in 1964.
Steve Benen, The Carpetbagger Report AlterNet: PEEK. November 12, 2007. Steve Benen: It's rather unusual for high-profile columnists at the same newspaper to engage in a public quarrel,
Earl Ofari Hutchinson, AlterNet. September 28, 2007. Is it as simple as saying that the GOP's leading candidates for presidency just don't care about black people?
Pam Spaulding, AlterNet: PEEK. August 20, 2007. Pam Spaulding: During the peak of the AIDS epidemic, Griffin, a close friend of the Reagans, chose not to leverage his personal influence.
Pam Spaulding, AlterNet: PEEK. August 13, 2007. Pam Spaulding: I guess you could look at it this way -- the more he's on vacation, the less damage he can do to the country.
Guest Blogger, AlterNet: PEEK. June 12, 2007. Taylor Marsh: The GOP's obsession with Reagan as some sort of Christ figure is revisionist history at its worst.
Elana Levin, AlterNet: PEEK. May 9, 2007. Reagan's presidency began a deliberate erosion of the public's right to a trial by jury. 20 years later his political heirs continue to feed the myth of "tort reform" and ignore the Constitution in favor of corporate interests.
Dean Baker, AlterNet. April 27, 2007. Economist Dean Baker's new book lays waste to the Reagan Revolution's unprecedented assault on working Americans' economic security.