The Poblano Effect: Obama Could Score Huge Electoral Victory over McCain

Josh Kalven, Progress Illinois

Election 2008: If the huge African-American turnout numbers Obama received in the primaries occurs on Nov. 5, Obama could win 350 electoral votes.

U.S. Sergeant Refuses to Go to Iraq: "This Occupation is Unconstitutional and Illegal"

Karin Zeitvogel, Middle East Online

War on Iraq: On Capitol Hill yesterday, an American soldier named Matthis Chiroux publicly announced his refusal to deploy to Iraq.

Myanmar's Junta Gets a Pass from Powerful Neighbors

Andrew Lam, New American Media

Many wealthy Asian countries are more concerned with appeasing Myanmar's junta than helping victims of the cyclone.

Toxic Chemicals Are Maiming Thousands Around the World

Aquene Freechild, Environmental Health Fund

Health and Wellness: Over time, our bodies lose their ability to cope with toxic chemicals, and each exposure has a more severe effect.

America's Frightening Alzheimer's Epidemic

Rebecca Hyman, AlterNet

Health and Wellness: By 2030, one in four adults over 65 will have Alzheimer's. This unforgiving brain damage can cripple patients, families and the economy.

CNN's Lou Dobbs Is Clueless When It Comes to the Drug War

Tony Newman, AlterNet

DrugReporter: Lou Dobbs talks nonsense to explain Mexican drug violence. Face it: Drug prohibition creates a profit motive that people are willing to kill for.

U.S. Sergeant Refuses to Go to Iraq: "This Occupation is Unconstitutional and Illegal"

Karin Zeitvogel, Middle East Online

War on Iraq: On Capitol Hill yesterday, an American soldier named Matthis Chiroux publicly announced his refusal to deploy to Iraq.

Election 08: Misogyny I Will Not Miss

Marie Cocco, Washington Post Writers Group

Reproductive Justice and Gender: When the Democratic primaries end, we might finally get a break from this country's orgiastic display of woman-hating.

Dire Consequences with a McCain Supreme Court?

Robert Parry, Consortium News

Election 2008: Imagine the dire consequences if McCain appoints a fifth radical Supreme Court justice who believes in an all-powerful Executive Branch.

California Gay Marriage Ban Overturned

Huffington Post

The California Supreme Court has ruled that same-sex couples have the right to marry; Schwarzenegger vows to uphold the ruling.

Three Things That Won't Help End the Foreclosure Crisis

Dean Baker, Liz Chimienti, Center for Economic and Policy Research

Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace: Falling home prices, rising foreclosures rates, and a slowing economy have created a perfect storm for U.S. homeowners.

Juan Crow: The Deep South's New Second-Class Citizens

Roberto Lovato, The Nation

Immigration: Latinos' subordinate status in Georgia strongly resembles that of African-Americans who lived under Jim Crow.

What Michael Pollan Hasn't Told You About Food

Onnesha Roychoudhuri, AlterNet

Environment: As both obesity and hunger are on the rise, a new book shows why we shouldn't feel guilty about our food choices but angry with a corrupt food system.

Arianna Huffington Storms NYC With New Book, Skewering McCain as a 'Pandering Pawn of the Right'

Don Hazen, AlterNet

Huffington blasts corporate media and lampoons McCain. She tells all in an interview with Grit TV's Laura Flanders and AlterNet's Don Hazen.

Why is Burger King Spying on Student Labor Organizers?

Katrina Vanden Heuvel, The Nation

PEEK: The fast-food company tries to hide its anti-labor practices.

A Jew's Eye View of Iran

Larry Beinhart, AlterNet

ForeignPolicy: The condition of the Jews in Iran is a matter of political significance.

How Advertisers Psychologically Mug Women

Sheila Gibbons, Women's eNews

Reproductive Justice and Gender: Though women make 85 percent of all consumer purchases, marketers rarely recognize the extent of women's buying power, technical savvy or confidence.

Radioactive Hypocrisy: American Hubris Threatens Perpetual Nuclear Proliferation

Tad Daley, AlterNet

Non-nuclear weapon states shouldn't tolerate the nuclear double standard.

A Critical Look at the Forced Spread of Democracy

Tony Smith, MIT Center for International Studies

ForeignPolicy: American imperialism in the name of democracy promotion is counterproductive.

Rush Limbaugh Wins as Election's Biggest Manipulator

Rory O'Connor, AlterNet

MediaCulture: The media and Democrats need to stop buying into -- and promoting -- the so-called "Limbaugh effect."

Get Ready to Spend $6,000 a Year on Gas

Mark Clayton, Christian Science Monitor

With prices at $120 a barrel, Americans are feeling the pain.

Is Clinton Staying In the Race To Say, 'I Told You So'?

David Corn, Mother Jones Online

Election 2008: Clinton may be bolstering her position for a possible run in 2012.

Food Crisis Hits Fallujah

Dahr Jamail, Ali Al-Fadhily, IPS News

War on Iraq: Sharp increases in food prices have generated a new wave of anti-occupation and anti-U.S. sentiment in Fallujah.

The Terrifying Normalcy of Assaulting Women

Ann Jones, Tomdispatch.com

Reproductive Justice and Gender: In West Africa, the war against women doesn't end just because grim wars between men finally do.

How We Lost Knowledge of Where Food Comes from and Why We Need to Get It Back

Ann Vileisis, Island Press

Environment: A new book explores how we got into the modern situation where we know so little about what we eat and yet regard it as entirely normal.

Is Who Becomes the Next President All That Matters?

Danny Schechter, AlterNet

MediaCulture: In many ways, Mao was right: The occupant of the oval office is a paper tiger.

Concentrated Wealth Is Killing the Horse-Racing Industry -- and Horses

Sam Pizzigati, Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality

Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace: Americans used to follow horse racing more fervently than all other sports save baseball and boxing.

My Strange Relationship With Sex

Raj Bandyopadhyay, Open Magazine

Sex and Relationships: As an Indian studying in the U.S., I have been subjected to the sexual hang-ups of two cultures. This is not a good recipe for getting laid.

Hedge Fund Titans Are Treating Us Like Pawns in Their Economic Chess Games

Scott Thill, AlterNet

Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace: Hedge funds exploited the misfortunes of those caught beneath currency, housing and internet bubbles, and got paid by the boatload.

Why Harsh Immigration Crackdowns Will Never Work

Joshua Holland, AlterNet

Immigration: Tough-minded immigration policies keep backfiring, and the debate over them obscures the question of what really works and what doesn't.

How Pot Became Demonized: the Fine Line Between Good Medicine and 'Dangerous Drugs'

Wendy Chapkis, Richard J. Webb, NYU Press

DrugReporter: A history of the battle between politics and science over the use of marijuana as a medicine.

McCain Aides Forced to Quit over Ties to Burmese Military Junta

Leonard Doyle, The Independent

Election 2008: The McCain campaign reeks of special interests.

Why the Police Wouldn't Tase Me When I Asked Them to

Danielle Egan, The Tyee

Rights and Liberties: Police explain to a journalist who wants to know what being tasered feels like, "we really don't fully understand and know the risks."

Proof of Citizenship? Missouri Vies for the Worst Voting Law in the Country

Art Levine, Huffington Post

Democracy and Elections: Missouri lawmakers are rushing to pass a law that would, among other things, deny some nuns the right to vote.

Misogyny Rampant in the Armed Forces: 1 in 3 Military Women Experience Sexual Abuse

Nancy Van Ness, The Wip

War on Iraq: Speaking out against the war, female veterans describe regular abuse at the hands of their peers -- and the military's failure to address it.

Will Bush Crony Scott Bloch's Gay-Hating Finally Catch Up with Him?

Bill Berkowitz, Talk To Action

Election 2008: The FBI is now investigating the man who declared war on equal protection for gays in federal workplaces.