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."
