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Our Media Have Been So Wrong for So Long

By Jayne Lyn Stahl, AlterNet. May 9, 2008.
War on Iraq: In his new book, E&P editor Greg Mitchell offers a stinging indictment of the media's complicity with Washington's war-marketing machine.

Sexless in the City: A Frigid Evangelical Can't Find Love in the Big Apple

By Hadley Suter, AlterNet. May 3, 2008.
Sex and Relationships: Author Anna Broadway shares her odd tale about the men who wander in and out of her life -- but never into her bed.

Artificial Foods and Corporate Crops: Can We Escape the 'Frankenstate'?

By Claire Hope Cummings, Beacon Press. May 2, 2008.
Environment: Taking a technological approach to agriculture has put the future of the world's food supply in jeopardy.

Our Political Leaders Are to Blame in World Water Crisis

By Maude Barlow, The New Press. April 24, 2008.
Water: As Barlow's new book shows, the world does not lack the knowledge about how to build a water-secure future; it lacks the political will.

Gun Rights and Our National Identity Crisis

By Daniel Lazare, The Nation. April 22, 2008.
Rights and Liberties: When it comes to the Second Amendment, Americans are largely at the mercy of 18th-century attitudes they don't know how to escape.

How Many Earth Days Do We Have Left?

By Terrence McNally, AlterNet. April 22, 2008.
Environment: Lester Brown, author of Plan B 3.0, shows us how we can change in enough time to save life on earth, as we know it.

What Do Evangelicals Listen to on Their iPods?

By Alexander Zaitchik, AlterNet. April 22, 2008.
MediaCulture: Daniel Radosh takes readers on a trip to the parallel universe of Christian pop culture -- be prepared for a very weird, tame ride.

Sending a Son off to War: a Mother's Anguish

By Penny Coleman, AlterNet. April 21, 2008.
War on Iraq: "How will I survive the wait and the not-knowing, and will I survive at all if my worst fears are realized?"

Defeated in Iraq: How America Lost the War

By Suzi Steffen, AlterNet. April 19, 2008.
War on Iraq: Jonathan Steele on why -- and how -- the U.S. and Britain screwed up the Iraq project.

Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation

By Onnesha Roychoudhuri, AlterNet. April 17, 2008.
Health and Wellness: Author Charles Barber discusses Americans' unrealistic notions about happiness. We've medicalized a lot of life issues that aren't mental illnesses.

Brokaw's Blind Spot on Vietnam

By Fred Branfman, Truthdig. April 16, 2008.
ForeignPolicy: How is it possible to write a book about the '60s without an in-depth discussion of the Vietnam War?

Goodbye Charm School: The Case for More Women Leaders

By Madeleine M. Kunin, Chelsea Green Publishing. April 16, 2008.
Reproductive Justice and Gender: If we want a more representative and effective government, we should consider backing away from the traditional male style of leadership.

Why Is Coke Glamorous and Heroin Scary? Because of Halfwits Like Nikki Sixx

By John Dolan, AlterNet. April 12, 2008.
MediaCulture: Sixx, the '80s hair rocking bassist for Motley Crue, offers to the public the memoirs of his drug-addled stardom -- if only he could admit he had fun.

How the American Medical Association Got Rich

By Dana Ullman, North Atlantic Books. April 10, 2008.
Health and Wellness: The "AMA Seal of Approval" on drugs and food becomes a legal form of bribery.

A Yuppie Heads 'Back to the Land'

By Anneli Rufus, AlterNet. April 5, 2008.
Environment: Author Doug Fine traded his metropolitan lifestyle for an eco-lifestyle on a New Mexico farm. If only the rest of us could afford to do the same.

Go for an 'Edible Estate': The Case Against Lawns

By Fritz Haeg, Metropolis Books. April 4, 2008.
Environment: Why do we dedicate so much property to something that requires precious resources, endless hours and contaminates our air and water?

Lust in Translation: Which Country Has the Highest Rates of Infidelity?

By Pamela Druckerman, Penguin Books. April 2, 2008.
Sex and Relationships: Infidelity is universal. But which country boasts the most cheaters?

Brewing Trouble: How to Drink Beer and Save the World

By Benjamin Dangl, AlterNet. April 1, 2008.
Can corporate "globeerization" be fought through "beeroregionalism"?

McCain's 'Maverick' Myth Is the Media's Creation

By David Brock, Paul Waldman, Anchor Books. March 31, 2008.
MediaCulture: The bizarre tale of how the media turned a crooked Republican into the mirage of a principled politician.

Are Gender-Segregated "Leagues of Their Own" Bad for Women?

By Robert Lipsyte, The Nation. March 28, 2008.
Reproductive Justice and Gender: A new book advocates equality for men and women on the playing field. But is that field of dreams everything it's cracked up to be?

Two Angry Men: Revisiting the Duke Lacrosse Case

By Robert Perkinson, The Nation. March 11, 2008.
Rights and Liberties: Beyond the sensationalism and sound bites, the Duke 'rape' case makes for an ironic example of the perils of prosecutorial power.

The Banana Kings' Reign of Terror

By Emily Biuso, The Nation. March 10, 2008.
ForeignPolicy: "Today's advocates of multinational power would have us all as banana republics."

Literary Frauds Strike Again ... and Again

By John Dolan, AlterNet. March 8, 2008.
MediaCulture: A Valley Girl masquerades as an L.A. gangster and a Catholic woman says she's a Jew raised by wolves. Why do people keep falling for such frauds?

Will the Clash of Faiths Go On Forever?

By Daniel Lazare, The Nation. March 4, 2008.
Religious conflict rages on, despite claims we live in a "secular age" -- two authors explore the clash of beliefs.

Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Who's the Cruelest Species of Them All?

By Anneli Rufus, AlterNet. February 23, 2008.
Rights and Liberties: We are, of course, but a new book on animal cruelty will make your jaw drop about how vicious humans can be to other animals.

How the Mountains of Appalachia Are Disappearing

By Amanda Paulson, Christian Science Monitor. February 5, 2008.
Environment: A new book reveals the environmental battle raging across one of America's poorest regions.

Tom Friedman's Folly: The Lies Behind 'Free Trade'

By Chalmers Johnson, Truthdig. February 5, 2008.
A new book on disastrous trade policies makes it clear that it's time to dismantle the barriers that keep so much of the world so poor.

Dark Truths About the Israeli Occupation

By Daniel Levy, Washington Monthly. January 29, 2008.
ForeignPolicy: Can Israelis ever recover from the self-inflicted damage of becoming a brutal occupier?

Iraq: See no Evil, Hear no Evil

By Brian Katulis, Comment Is Free. January 23, 2008.
War on Iraq: The US has deluded itself for far too long by projecting its own paradigms and internal debates onto Iraq.

New Book Makes Dangerous Claim That Inequality Is Genetic

By Jesse Reynolds, AlterNet. January 18, 2008.
Rights and Liberties: Gregory Clark's book A Farewell to Alms suggests that race- and class-based inequality is inherent -- perhaps even deserved.

Jonah Goldberg's 'Liberal Facism' Brings Historical Revisionism to Comical New Heights

By Brad Reed, AlterNet. January 11, 2008.
The welfare-wingnut king has decided that fascism is a phenomenon of the left.

The Man Who United Labor and the Environment

By Will Tanzman, AlterNet. January 3, 2008.
Environment: Tony Mazzocchi was a leader in the movement to make industrial production less harmful to workers and the natural environment.

Books That Will Change the World

By Rebecca Solnit, Tomdispatch.com. January 2, 2008.
MediaCulture: Twelve authors on war and peace, dissent, the environment and the empowerment of the poor provide inspiration to transform the world in 2008.

Blame It All on the '70s?

By Anneli Rufus, AlterNet. December 30, 2007.
Author Thomas Hine argues we're still suffering from that "slum of a decade" that brought us gas lines, pantsuits and shag rugs.

The Stillborn God

By Zachary Karabell, Truthdig. December 29, 2007.
Is separation of church and state a myth in America?

Buy Some Stuff, Enslave Somebody

By Josh Rosenblatt, Texas Observer. December 27, 2007.
Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace: Why are we so disconnected from the slave labor that produces so many of our products?

Prude: New Book Rolls Sexuality Back Centuries

By Rachel Kramer Bussel, AlterNet. December 14, 2007.
Carol Platt Liebau's new book is the worst in a recent spate of teen-sex-shockfests.

Does Susan Faludi's Terror Dream Oversimplify Post-9/11 America?

By Bree Nordenson, Columbia Journalism Review. December 12, 2007.
MediaCulture: Faludi loads a lot of conclusions on a thin strand of history.

The Health Industry's Secret History of Delaying the Fight Against Cancer

By Christine Wenc, AlterNet. December 6, 2007.
Health and Wellness: In her new book, Devra Davis exposes scientists and government officials who have worked to downplay or dismiss preventable causes of cancer.

Is the Environmental Movement on the Wrong Track?

By David Morris, AlterNet. December 3, 2007.
Environment: The new book Breakthrough believes we need hope to counteract environmentalists' dreary pessimism. But is this new "politics of hope" actually hopeful?

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