IPS News. November 24, 2009. Three contentious provisions are scheduled to expire next month; opponents of these sections have been pushing to roll them back. But Obama seems ready to renew them.
Agence France Presse. November 24, 2009. Obama faces a U.S. public sharply divided on the war and calls from some Democratic allies to set a flexible timetable for withdrawal.
Institute for War and Peace Reporting. November 24, 2009. Residents of Takht-e-Bazaar say U.S. commandos landed in their area on November 6 and began shooting indiscriminately during a search for missing U.S. troops.
AlterNet. November 24, 2009. She's an incompetent has-been. Yet she keeps getting our attention. Is it that she embodies a set of contradictions that many women grapple with?
The Nation. November 24, 2009. An elite division of Blackwater plans targeted assassinations of suspected Taliban and Al Qaeda operatives in Pakistan. And everyone's denying it.
Takepart. November 24, 2009. Here's what you need to know, from tips on a meatless meal to options for a humanely raised turkey to having diversity on your actual dinner table.
AlterNet. November 24, 2009. Some progressive opponents of the health care bill say it's so bad, we may as well drop it. That analysis ignores the millions of Americans who stand to get coverage.
AlterNet. November 24, 2009. Nearly 100,000 passengers were pulled aside by TSA behavior watchers last year, and it remains to be proven whether you can spot terrorists by the looks on their faces.
Tomdispatch.com. November 23, 2009. Any day now, Obama will make an announcement about the number of soldiers he wants in Afghanistan. Here's the speech he should give.
Tomdispatch.com. November 23, 2009. The news is focused on a future U.S. withdrawal from Iraq -- but the withdrawal isn't to send the military presence home -- it's into bases across the Persian Gulf.
The Loop. November 23, 2009. Black women get breast cancer at younger ages, but the new breast-cancer guidelines entirely ignore that fact. This is the very definition of institutionalized racism.
IPS News. November 23, 2009. "The End of Poverty?", a documentary by Philippe Diaz, paints a lurid picture of globalization's role in the First World/Third World rift.
Labor Notes. November 23, 2009. Because of domestic issues like health care reform, many unions have remained silent about Afghanistan. That's about to change.
The Nation. November 23, 2009. Good writing succeeds or fails on the strength of its ability to engage you, to make you think, to give you a glimpse into someone else's head.
AlterNet. November 23, 2009. Harry Reid may have gotten the Senate to move his health-care bill forward, but a handful of conservative Democrats could still keep the bill from getting a final vote.
AlterNet. November 23, 2009. El Salvador's President Funes has affirmed his commitment to seeking the full truth of the military's role in the massacre.
Hightower Lowdown. November 23, 2009. The war on marijuana is insane; our officials keep sacrificing tax dollars, lives, civil liberties, and their own credibility in this misguided and losing effort.
In These Times. November 23, 2009. Many people are not getting by. The human species faces dire ecological threats. Pretending everything will be OK helped get us into this mess, and it won't get us out.
AlterNet. November 23, 2009. That Maj. Hasan tried to get a military discharge before the massacre is largely being erased -- we're supposed to keep focusing on the Muslim part.
AlterNet. November 22, 2009. Imagine a choice between no intercourse or sex with unbearable pain. Then imagine that no doctor knows how to fix it. That's the world occupied by women with vulvodynia.
SeXis Magazine. November 22, 2009. The weaving of assertive sexuality and assertive spirituality is bizarre, untried terrain. Is it hypocritical for Christians to flaunt their assets in a flirtatious way?
Picador Press. November 21, 2009. In the new introduction to the re-release of her classic book, 'No Logo,' Klein explores how ad culture has thrived and adapted in the past decade.
AlterNet. November 21, 2009. Vegetarians aren't the only ones who should be concerned; there's soy in just about everything you eat these days -- including hamburgers, mac 'n cheese and salad dressing.
Think Progress. November 20, 2009. A new slogan is making its way onto t-shirts and even teddy bears: 'Pray for Obama: Psalm 109:8,' which reads, 'Let his days be few; and let another take his office.”
AlterNet. November 20, 2009. Author Beverly Gologorsky explores the tragic, scarring experiences for Vietnam vets in her new novel, and discusses the parallels she sees in Iraq and Afghanistan.
AlterNet. November 20, 2009. It's possible to keep the good parts of religion -- like the music, rituals and pageantry -- and get rid of the sex-hating dogma, the belief in god and other troublesome aspects.
AlterNet. November 20, 2009. Reagan was inspirational, but to claim he defeated Communism is a disservice to the millions of Eastern Europeans who struggled against great odds for their freedom.
RH Reality Check. November 20, 2009. Historically, the burden of family planning has almost always fallen on women. Isn't it about time for that to change?
Bill Moyers Journal. November 20, 2009. Recognition of human rights expert Richard Goldston's investigation is essential to the peace process in Israel and Palestine -- and the Congress is trying to demonize it.
AlterNet. November 20, 2009. Despite ever rosier economic predictions and a surging stock market, the body count from the economic crisis is destined only to grow in the weeks and months ahead.
AlterNet. November 19, 2009. No longer are our families guaranteed a healthy livelihood, not in the face of the current rates of cancer, diabetes, obesity, Alzheimers and allergies. We need a new food system.
Mother Jones. November 19, 2009. Obama recently tapped as chief agricultural negotiator for the office of the US Trade Representative a senior executive from one of the pesticide industry's main trade groups.
AlterNet. November 19, 2009. Organizers are putting together a series of “house parties” after the White House said it was preparing to push Congress on immigration reform early in 2010.
Miller-McCune.com. November 19, 2009. Thanks to lots of research (and, of course, to Jim Henson's genius), Sesame Street continues to aid in early childhood development.
Pacific Institute. November 19, 2009. After years of claiming that they needed no public support to build this plant, this claim has finally been proven false.
AlterNet. November 19, 2009. Schaeffer: "There is a crazy fringe [receiving] messages that have been pouring out of FOX News ... talking about doing away with Obama, asking God to kill him."
Health Beat. November 19, 2009. Controversial new recommendations on breast cancer prevention have caused a stir in the women's health community. But do yearly mammograms really change death rates?
AlterNet. November 19, 2009. A group of water oligarchs engineered a disastrous privatization scheme to make a fortune out of California's most precious natural resource.
Monbiot.com. November 19, 2009. The challenge of feeding 7 or 8 billion people while oil supplies are falling is stupefying. It'll be even greater if governments keep pretending that it isn't going to happen.
Mother Jones. November 18, 2009. Should we focus on industries paying to preserve distant trees rather than reducing emissions closer to home? It's the question of the day in Washington and Copenhagen.
Americans United for Separation of Church and State. November 18, 2009. The House health-care bill isn't just a threat to women's rights; with the Stupak amendment, it's a breach of the Constitution.
Pacific Institute. November 18, 2009. Despite the happy face being put on by some of the bill's supporters, including Governor Schwarzenegger, I doubt anyone is truly happy with the end result.
Chelsea Green Publishing. November 18, 2009. You don't need a red barn and rolling wheat fields. Urbanites, too, can grow their own food indoors, in cramped spaces, and without access to land! For real.
AlterNet. November 18, 2009. Top executives were initially hurt by the public's moral outrage. But their sense of entitlement quickly kicked in, and now they claim they're the good guys.
AlterNet. November 18, 2009. In 1989, six Jesuit priests, their housekeeper and her daughter, were brutally murdered in El Salvador. Two decades later, the extent of U.S. complicity remains largely unspoken.
Mother Jones Online. November 18, 2009. To liberals, she epitomizes the anti-choice far right of the GOP. But to American Right to Life, Sarah Palin is not pure enough.
ColorLines RaceWire. November 18, 2009. We can argue about the nuances of immigration reform all we want. But the real conversation begins when -- and only when -- we acknowledge elements of structural racism.
Miller-McCune.com. November 17, 2009. Can ADHD stimulants like Adderall be the answer for college students looking to increase academic performance? They think so.
Consortium News. November 17, 2009. As Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and the other alleged 9/11 conspirators go to trial, the corporate media's embargo on the truth about the Bush years will be under great strain.
Robert Reich's Blog. November 17, 2009. Nobody said this would be easy. But passing the health reform that America deserves involves a little political muscle.
The Huffington Post Investigative Fund. November 17, 2009. 12 year old Benjamin French lives in one of 33 states where insurance companies are allowed to set annual and lifetime caps on prosthetic coverage.
Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality. November 17, 2009. As the big bank bonus grab shifts into overdrive, doing "God's work" has never seemed so lucrative.
Chelsea Green Publishing. November 17, 2009. Solar saves money, benefits the planet and makes for a comfortable house that requires little in the name of back-up fuel.
AlterNet. November 17, 2009. Erectile dysfunction and ejaculation problems were two side effects in a recent study of men exposed to high levels of bisphenol A, or BPA.
Miller-McCune.com. November 17, 2009. In a recent study, prejudiced people were more likely to support the health plan when it was linked to Bill Clinton, than when it was linked to Obama.
AlterNet. November 17, 2009. Wall Street's raking in massive profits and paying its execs and traders record bonuses, thanks in part to government cash. What about ordinary Americans?
TreeHugger. November 16, 2009. Her book is hardly out the gates, and it's already facing a torrent of criticism from mainstream news sources for including various untruths and flat out lies.
Huffington Post. November 16, 2009. Thanks to grassroots advocacy and new legislation, important ecosystems across the globe will be guarded from harmful damming projects.
Chelsea Green Publishing. November 16, 2009. The local heritage food movement -- the raw milk movement -- is all about respecting and honoring indigenous wisdom.
The Nation. November 16, 2009. Ten years after the Seattle protests, climate activists are poised to make the U.N. climate change summit their "growing up party."
The Center for Public Integrity. November 16, 2009. Obama's negotiators have worked to lower expectations for what the world can expect from a nation where coal-fired, energy-gobbling industries dominate the political scene.
AlterNet. November 16, 2009. One of the principal concerns of the pending agreement had been the possibility of the bases’ use for aggression against neighboring countries.
No Mas. November 16, 2009. Perhaps the greatest athletic achievement while on a psychedelic journey, No Mas and artist James Blagden proudly present the animated tale of Dock Ellis' legendary LSD no-hitter.
AlterNet. November 16, 2009. Young people today face imprisonment, the prescription of psychotropic drugs, psychiatric confinement, and zero tolerance policies that model schools after prisons.
IPS News. November 16, 2009. At the same time, the Justice Department is being strongly criticized for keeping the military commissions in place to try some suspects.
AlterNet. November 16, 2009. The NY Times has just discovered that "douche" is used as an insult in mainstream media. Why do they seem to see the spread of a term derogatory to women as progress?
Kunstler.com. November 16, 2009. We continue to be childishly delusional about our dark economic and environmental prospects. Unfortunately, reality isn't amenable to lies and spin.
The New York Times. November 16, 2009. The young, the black and the poor are among those who are being hammered unmercifully in this long and cruel economic downturn that the financial elites are telling us is over.
Tomdispatch.com. November 16, 2009. Palin's influence on a party largely devoid of leadership is expanding. If she doesn't become the GOP's future queen, she may be its future king-maker -- and its destroyer.
America's Voice. November 16, 2009. Organized anti-immigrant groups range from extremist neo-Nazi organizations to respected Washington, D.C.-based think tanks.
AlterNet. November 16, 2009. First they threatened to take down health-care reform over abortion coverage. Now they're threatening services to the sick and poor of Washington, D.C., over same-sex marriage.
Immigration Impact. November 15, 2009. Napolitano challenged Congress to do its share, to be brave enough to give her the tools she needs to enforce and transform our immigration laws.
The Nation. November 14, 2009. Some may secretly relish the embarrassing spectacle that is Sarah Palin. But she's dangerous; the more we chuckle, the more indignant her army becomes.
Drug War Chronicle. November 14, 2009. The country's largest physician group, the AMA, has reversed its long-held position that marijuana has no medical worth.
AlterNet. November 14, 2009. Hundreds gather in Albuquerque to celebrate a new dawn of wider acceptance of drug reform, while still feeling a little nervous about the path ahead.
AlterNet. November 14, 2009. It's been 10 years since Washington repealed the Glass-Steagall Act, the moment we got royally screwed by the banking system -- and we're still paying the price.
The Nation. November 14, 2009. In the wake of the passage by Democrats of a radical anti-abortion measure, Democratic women are asking, "Whose party is this?"
AlterNet. November 14, 2009. As U.S. and British oil companies sign contracts with the Iraqi government, is it time to declare Big Oil the "victor" in the bloody venture?
CounterPunch. November 13, 2009. One reason Afghan villagers prefer dealing with the Taliban than govt. security forces is that the latter have a habit of seizing their sons at checkpoints and sodomizing them.
November 13, 2009. In my view, the real solution to the problem of how to reform health care in this country is a Medicare-for-all, single-payer system.
AlterNet. November 13, 2009. The military wants to integrate itself into campus life and therefore gain routine access to rank-and file students to recruit regular soldiers
AlterNet. November 13, 2009. Would-be revelers divided by a fake Berlin Wall shuffled along in the rain looking for a way out of a festival of freedom.
RoryOConnor.org. November 13, 2009. With money, media and promotion of a conservative political agenda, a self-styled Messiah and convicted felon became a frequent guest at the White House.
Agence France Presse. November 13, 2009. The trial will be held not far from Ground Zero, once the site of the World Trade Center destroyed by two hijacked planes in the September 11 attacks.
AlterNet. November 13, 2009. Fine-tuning the U.S. war in Afghanistan is no substitute for acknowledging -- with words and with policy -- that there will be no military solution.
The Smirking Chimp. November 13, 2009. The GOP's agenda, if fully implemented, would prove catastrophic. Here's what an unfettered Republican Party would do "for" America.
Truthdig. November 13, 2009. On the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, it's worthwhile to remember that ending a stupid, harmful war is the most admirable thing a great leader can do.
AlterNet. November 13, 2009. Religion is uniquely armored against anything that might stop it from spinning into extreme absurdity, extreme denial of reality and extreme, grotesque immorality.
AlterNet. November 13, 2009. The same language the bishops thought too weak to truly ban public funding for abortion maintains their charities' own access to public money.
The Nation. November 13, 2009. The U.S. government is funding the very forces its troops are fighting -- funds that add up to a huge amount of money for the Taliban.
AlterNet. November 13, 2009. If and when lab-grown meat begins filling the processed-food troughs of the masses, will the Oscar Mayer wiener-eaters of the world even notice?
AlterNet. November 12, 2009. Groups like BastaDobbs have done in Dobbs, who used his media platform to stir up racist, anti-immigrant hysteria for years.
New America Media. November 12, 2009. Though anti-Muslim hysteria has leveled off somewhat since September 11, Muslims still routinely get the blame for anything that even remotely smacks of a terrorist act.
The Guardian. November 12, 2009. Warning of a deliberate underplay at the International Energy Agency of a looming shortage for fear of triggering panic buying.
AlterNet. November 12, 2009. More people than ever grasp the need to shift from criminalization to a public health model -- the Drug Policy Alliance's conference leads the way on this discussion.
AlterNet. November 12, 2009. ChristianChirp.com, which promises to be a "family friendly" site, was founded by a man who claims to have been banned from Twitter for defending Rush Limbaugh.
AlterNet. November 12, 2009. It took a virulently anti-choice measure to pass the House's health care reform legislation. Progressives are strategizing how to keep it from the final bill.
The Smirking Chimp. November 11, 2009. If Al Gore (or even Ralph Nader) had been President in 2001, the Ft. Hood massacre almost certainly wouldn't have happened. Because George W. Bush was president, it did.
AlterNet. November 11, 2009. When it comes to meat, change is almost always cast as an absolute. You are a vegetarian or you are not. It's a strange formulation, and it's distracting.
AlterNet. November 11, 2009. "How will the corporations save themselves from that onerous rule that you can‘t use slaves and prisoners and children to make your products"?
November 11, 2009. News reports indicate that in the next few weeks, President Obama plans to announce his decision to send up to 40,000 more troops to Afghanistan.
New America Media. November 11, 2009. Congress inexplicably restricts low-income legal immigrants from the federal Medicaid and Medicare programs, which provide a modicum of security for the most vulnerable.
Media Matters for America. November 11, 2009. The right-wing media are trying to play "king-maker." But they are incapable of picking winners and stand poised to rip the Republican Party apart.
Raw Story. November 11, 2009. A Justice Department subpoena requesting information on visitors to an independent news site is raising serious privacy concerns.
AlterNet. November 11, 2009. The U.S. stands alone in the world in condemning thousands of juveniles to life without parole. And race is a huge factor. Will the Supreme Court even consider it?
The Women's Media Center. November 10, 2009. The success of this harrowing new movie undermines the conventional wisdom about what audiences want to watch.
TruthOut.org. November 10, 2009. Americans harbor a quaint belief a new president takes charge of a govt. eagerly awaiting his orders. But there are huge power centers that have their own agendas.
New America Media. November 10, 2009. NAM Editor Aaron Glantz spoke to former Marine Corps Cpl. Dave Hassan, who served in Iraq. Hassan said that while he was there, racist language was so pervasive he used it himself.
New America Media. November 10, 2009. The House's shift is modest. But it might be just what's needed to enact meaningful changes to our immigration policy.
Dollars and Sense. November 10, 2009. Whether the gears of a capitalist economy mesh or not depends on the institutional framework in which capitalist companies operate.
The Brooklyn Rail. November 10, 2009. A new book tells the story of so-called "honor killings" in Jordan. Author Rana Husseini discusses the growing movement against this deadly form of violence against women.
AlterNet. November 10, 2009. Wanting kids isn't just the social norm, it's said to be a biological imperative, the only supposed "duh" of evolution. But yet, some of us choose not to -- and for good reason.
Daily Kos. November 10, 2009. A new book points out that the ancient Christians -- and even early Americans -- did not share the blind faith of today's fundamentalists.
The Huffington Post Investigative Fund. November 10, 2009. Soft drink makers, supermarket companies, agriculture and the fast-food business have poured millions into campaigning against taxes on sweetened beverages.
Asia Times. November 10, 2009. The shooting tragedy at Fort Hood on Friday points to a much larger problem of combat stress and overdeployment in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The Nation. November 9, 2009. Informed and engaged progressives aren't entirely enthusiastic about the measure. Here are some of the most serious complaints.
The Wonk Room. November 9, 2009. The health-care bill passed by the House will expand access to health care. But millions of women are about to lose coverage they currently have and need.
E Magazine. November 9, 2009. Momentum is building to block new coal-fired power plants and end mountaintop removal mining. Is there enough political will to make the break?
Tomdispatch.com. November 9, 2009. Forget the "debates" in Washington over Afghan War policy. Construction activity and the flow of money suggests that the Pentagon plans to be there for a long, long time.
Mother Jones Online. November 9, 2009. Igor Panarin warns that the U.S. will splinter into separate states controlled by foreign powers in 2010. Conservative activists think he may be on to something.
AlterNet. November 9, 2009. The economic crisis revealed late-capitalism's central offense: Human beings are being transparently treated if they were mere transactions. And they're going postal over it.
AlterNet. November 9, 2009. Pollan took on Big Ag and cheap food in a panel discussion, after the protests of a meat industry chairman led to his speech at a University being canceled.
Washington Times. November 7, 2009. The proposed Ian's law, named after a victim of muscular dystrophy who requires an electronic device to speak would protect the most vulnerable from losing coverage.
Campaign for America's Future. November 7, 2009. Obama will increasingly have to choose -- whether to hold to his vision and raise the stakes, or compromise his vision to cut the deal.
AlterNet. November 7, 2009. Digitally-enabled mating culture has opened up the mate-finding process while also generating a whole new set of dating anxieties.
AlterNet. November 7, 2009. Wild, over-the-top rhetoric and bizarre conspiracy theories about health reform aren't just coming from the right-wing blogs and talk-radio loudmouths.
Chelsea Green Publishing. November 6, 2009. Bees teach us how to live our life in a way that by taking what we need from the world around us, we leave the world better than we found it.
New America Media. November 6, 2009. Perhaps the most depressing aspect of Thursday's shoot-out at Fort Hood is that none of the people who died will be counted as casualties of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Church and State. November 6, 2009. Falwell spent months developing the students at his university into a Republican voting bloc. But was what he did legal?
CODEPINK Women for Peace: Action Blog. November 6, 2009. Meddling in Afghanistan’s elections and U.S. failure at every turn to deliver security and justice is increasing the potency of the Taliban.
AlterNet. November 6, 2009. Days before a health bill is expected to pass the House, Republicans rallied their flock with the help of Fox News, Michele Bachmann and leading conservative groups.
Health Beat. November 6, 2009. The health care bills wending through Congress are getting a bad rap. And the major culprit is the Congressional Budget Office, and its chief, Doug Elmendorf.
The Progressive. November 6, 2009. The same nation that created a Works Progress Administration in the 1930s should create another one in the 21st century.
E Magazine. November 6, 2009. While the rest of rural America is being hit hard with the economic downturn, Greensburg's emphasis on green living has given the town a buffer.
AlterNet. November 5, 2009. Natural gas is "clean" only in contrast to coal -- just as a bacon cheeseburger can only be regarded as healthful compared with a double bacon cheeseburger.
AlterNet. November 5, 2009. Army psychiatrist suspected of massacre survived return fire from authorities and is in custody and hospitalized in stable condition.
AlterNet. November 5, 2009. Coal River Mountain can be a wind farm that provides 85,000 households with electricity, creates 700 long-term green jobs but inside it is being dynamited.
Huffington Post. November 5, 2009. After 27 million cubic meters of concrete have been poured, 1.3 million people have been displaced and up to $88 billion have been spent, it is now time to take stock.
AlterNet. November 5, 2009. This is George W. Bush's foreign policy legacy, which — through this resolution — the Democrats, no less than their Republican counterparts, have now eagerly embraced.
Foreign Policy in Focus. November 5, 2009. The "cow-boy" model of capitalism has failed dramatically, but corporate America still wants to roam the planet free of regulation.
CounterPunch. November 5, 2009. The whistleblowing agent depicted in "Syriana," Bob Baer is back in Silverton, Colo, where "people who messed up in some other life and come here to be nobody."
Mother Jones. November 5, 2009. What if they gave a Tea Party and nobody came? Michele Bachmann and company promised a barrage of protest calls to the Capitol but, so far, things are kind of quiet.
Robert Reich's Blog. November 5, 2009. Has Obama spent too much political capital on health-care reform, and not enough on keeping families afloat in a flailing economy?
The Nation. November 4, 2009. The former Soviet leader on his push for a peaceful dissolution of the Russian empire, and his idea that the US should follow suit.
Tomdispatch.com. November 4, 2009. Can we avoid an approach to Afghanistan where impending disaster is seen as an invitation to make things even worse?
Foreign Policy in Focus. November 4, 2009. It will take time and complexity, as well as trial and error, to help rebuild Afghanistan for ordinary Afghans, and by extension make Americans safer.
Agence France Presse. November 4, 2009. The CIA's Milan station chief at the time, Robert Seldon Lady, was sentenced to eight years in prison and othersto five years, all in their absence in the landmark trial.
Miller-McCune.com. November 4, 2009. Researchers looking at beliefs about al-Qaeda and Saddam Hussein have made some surprising discoveries about why peopl
Pacific Institute. November 4, 2009. It is possible to improve the efficiency of water use and such improvements eliminate the need for expensive and environmentally damaging new supply.
AlterNet. November 4, 2009. The federal govt. is still blocking the process that would allow the marijuana plant to be brought to market as a prescription medicine.
TruthOut.org. November 4, 2009. With its populist business model, the Bank of North Dakota provides a template for sustainable fiscal policy at the state level.
IPS News. November 4, 2009. StandWithUs, a pro-Israel group known for challenging the credentials of more moderate Israel lobbyists, has accepted contributions from a slew of hard-right beneficiaries.
Pacific Institute. November 4, 2009. We must stop pretending that water is free and unlimited, available to anyone who can put a siphon in a river or drill another groundwater well.
MediaChannel.org. November 4, 2009. One NY Times reporter finally 'fesses up that the invasion of Iraq wasn't presented truthfully by the big media outlets. It's still not too late to tell the truth.
Chelsea Green Publishing. November 4, 2009. Restoring the American railroad system is an excellent place to start recovering our sense of national purpose and faith in collective enterprise.
Miller-McCune.com. November 4, 2009. A new study calls for standardizing aircraft maintenance across the globe, but until then, the answer just might be yes.
AlterNet. November 4, 2009. Critics have praised the film as a realistic, Academy Award-worthy piece of filmmaking. But is there really anything realistic about it?
Asia Times. November 4, 2009. According to villagers, several U.S. soldiers burned Korans when they couldn't locate insurgents they believed had blown up part of their convoy.
Earth Island Journal. November 3, 2009. The future of this ecologically rich area is now in the hands of oil and gas companies that have leased thousands of acres to drill in the Marcellus Shale.
The Nation. November 3, 2009. Come out of the closet about your drug use; hire a formerly incarcerated person; vote for politicians who are smart on crime.
Immigration Impact. November 3, 2009. It's a matter of priorities -- every dollar spent on the deportation iss a dollar not spent on improving immigration services and processing applications quickly and efficiently.
Dollars and Sense. November 3, 2009. We don’t want our tax dollars aiding companies that increase social inequalities. So why do we let our tax dollars help companies that increase economic inequality?
Global Comment. November 3, 2009. Antonino D'Ambrosio, the author of "A Heartbeat and a Guitar: Johnny Cash and the Making of "Bitter Tears," " talks about the intersections of politics and pop.
Air America Media. November 3, 2009. From the battle between moderate Republicans and the teabaggers, to marriage equality legislation, there is hot political action in the voting booths this year.
Institute for War and Peace Reporting. November 3, 2009. Concerns that violence could deter voters in upcoming polls come amid widespread anger at government’s security failings.
AlterNet. November 3, 2009. There's momentum to repair our fractured health care system -- but activism is desperately needed to keep the process honest.
JoeBageant.com. November 3, 2009. We've been reduced to "human assets" in a relentless economic machine. And we can't even complain: appearing cheerful is vital when all of life is monitored by an employer.
In These Times. November 3, 2009. The pharmaceutical industry wants you to think that if you don't have sex like a porn star, you're in need of their drugs.
AlterNet. November 3, 2009. I went undercover to a Pro-Life Federation conference. What I found there was not "middle America" or even conservative America. It was fringe America.
Your Tango. November 3, 2009. Despite criticism, Ashley Madison -- a website that facilitates affairs between married men and women -- attracts an unprecedented percentage of female users. Why?
AlterNet. November 3, 2009. The most aggressive members of the "New Atheism" movement have quite a bit in common with religious extremists like Pat Robertson and Ted Haggard.
Andy Worthington's Blog. November 2, 2009. This latest release still leaves seven Uighurs in Guantánamo -- not to mention the 60 or so other prisoners who have been cleared for release
AlterNet. November 2, 2009. All the projections show that the unemployment rate is likely to continue to rising for the immediate future and remain high for years to come.
AlterNet. November 2, 2009. Just as the GOP candidate has for more than 100 years, Dede Scozzafava was supposed to win the congressional seat in New York's 23rd district. Then Palin stepped in.
EcoSalon. November 2, 2009. Over the past decade many small organic food brands have been snapped up by giant corporations. Clearly, this can be bad for standards and quality.
ColorLines. November 2, 2009. After growing up in the U.S., Calvin James was separated from his family by and sent by immigration authorities to an alien "homeland."
