Phil Nugent, Nerve.com. October 17, 2009. We can learn a lot about shifting mores by charting the careers of those caught in the spotlight with their zippers down.
Clive James, BBC. April 7, 2009. A political scandal rocking the UK over porn films charged to a govt. expense account raises the question: why do people enjoy skin flicks, anyway?
Melina Ripcoco, Brilliant at Breakfast AlterNet: PEEK. March 19, 2009. America is known for its great second acts, and we may be witnessing the curtain rising on Spitzer's.
Sam Stein, Huffington Post AlterNet: PEEK. December 10, 2008. A Twin Cities paper reports that a probe has been launched into Minnesota Sen. Norm Coleman's ties to businessman Nasser Kazeminy.
Brave New Films, Huffington Post AlterNet: Video. September 24, 2008. Two decades after his role in the savings and loan crisis, McCain is still bent on deregulation.
Annalee Newitz, AlterNet. March 19, 2008. Eliot Spitzer's decision to pay money for sex was personal. It's not like he issued a policy of mandatory hookers for everybody.
Stephen Pizzo, News for Real. February 25, 2008. Long before the Iseman controversy, John McCain's role in the Keating Five scandal nearly ruined his Senate career.
Jeffrey Klein, Paolo Pontoniere, New America Media. November 2, 2006. Recent kickback scandals involving Rep. Curt Weldon prove that Congress would do well to remember President Eisenhower's warning against "unwarranted influence."
Joshua Holland, AlterNet: The Mix. October 11, 2006. In what's sure to be my only post on Mastur-gate, a look at folks being mean to Mark Foley just because he's a Republican.
Celina R. De Leon, AlterNet. October 11, 2006. The Christian right has done its best to keep America obsessed with clean, friendly family values. But what constitutes 'decency' -- and where does the Foley scandal fit in?
