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Excerpt: Interview with Arianna Huffington

By Don Hazen, Arianna Huffington, AlterNet. April 20, 2005.
Start Making Sense: An excerpt from the Start Making Sense section Understanding the Election: "Interview with Arianna Huffington."

Excerpt: Twelve-Step Program for Progressive Victories

By Don Hazen, AlterNet. April 20, 2005.
Start Making Sense: An excerpt from the section of Start Making Sense called Getting Active: "Twelve-Step Program for Progressive Victories."

Excerpt: Interview with Van Jones

By Terrence McNally, Van Jones, AlterNet. April 20, 2005.
Start Making Sense: An excerpt from the Start Making Sense section Understanding the Election.

Excerpt: Progressive Victories

By Evan Derkacz, AlterNet. April 20, 2005.
Start Making Sense: An excerpt from the Start Making Sense section Understanding the Election.

Excerpt: Interview with George Lakoff

By Jennifer Nix, George Lakoff, AlterNet. April 20, 2005.
Start Making Sense: An excerpt from the Start Making Sense section Understanding the Right Wing.

Excerpt: The Conservative Message Machine Money Matrix

By Don Hazen, AlterNet. April 20, 2005.
Start Making Sense: An excerpt from the Start Making Sense section Understanding the Right Wing.

Excerpt: The Blogging Revolution

By Markos Moulitsas ZÃºniga, AlterNet. April 20, 2005.
Start Making Sense: An excerpt from the Start Making Sense section Getting Active.

Excerpt: Election Reform

By Chellie Pingree, AlterNet. April 20, 2005.
Start Making Sense: An excerpt from the Start Making Sense section Action Reform.

By Riverbend, AlterNet. April 20, 2005.
World: Life in an occupied country is immensely difficult, sometimes terrifying, and always resilient. "Baghdad Burning" offers a window into one such life of an Iraqi blogger.

Start Making Sense: Table of Contents

AlterNet. April 19, 2005.
Start Making Sense: The full table of contents for Start Making Sense.

Start Making Sense: National Book Tour Events

April 19, 2005.
Start Making Sense: The following are Start Making Sense events happening around the country.

Beasts on the Bus

By Matt Taibbi, AlterNet. April 15, 2005.
Media and Technology: Being on the campaign trail is like being trapped in a zoo exhibit with no shelter from the crowd, where the penalty for touching your own genitals is death.

What Jesus Wouldn't Do

By Jim Wallis, AlterNet. March 9, 2005.
Excerpt: Much of the religious right's agenda is in direct contradiction to Christ's own teachings – and most devout Christians know it.

New World Order

By Jeff Chang, AlterNet. February 11, 2005.
WireTap: In an excerpt from 'Can't Stop Won't Stop,' author Jeff Chang looks at hip-hop feminism, neo-soul as marketing strategy and the endless cycle of cool.

A Path Paved with Bad Intentions

By Joshua L. Dratel, AlterNet. February 7, 2005.
Rights and Liberties: The message that the torture memos convey is unmistakable: these policy makers do not like our system of justice, with its checks and balances, that they have been sworn to uphold.

Canada, the "no spin" zone (video)

February 4, 2005.
FightFox: Bill O'Reilly showed once again why he's one of America's best improv comics. While threatening Toronto Globe & Mail's Heather Mallick with an American boycott of Canada (?), O'Reilly warned that they've "lost billions of dollars in France according to the Paris Business Review." You might describe this as a "faith-based" view considering...

Fox Vs Vanity Fair

January 24, 2005.
FightFox: Watch Vanity Fair editor Judy Bachrach ambush Fox News anchor Bridgette Quinn who expected the garden-variety Fox pap while discussing the Bush inauguration festivities. Instead...

Prisoners of Hope

By Cornel West, AlterNet. January 14, 2005.
Over 30 years after the cowardly murder of Martin Luther King, Jr., black America sits on the brink of collective disaster. We need a moral prophetic minority of all colors who muster the courage to question the powers that be.

George Clooney Vs. Bill O'Reilly

MSNBC. January 12, 2005.
FightFox: From one celebrity to another, Clooney challenges O'Reilly to put his: 'considerable money where [his] considerable mouth is' and to participate in a Tsunami relief telethon.

Down and Out in Discount America

By Liza Featherstone, The Nation. December 22, 2004.
To effectively battle corporate criminals like Wal-Mart, the public must be engaged as citizens, not merely as shoppers.

Baghdad 2-Way

Chat the Planet. October 8, 2004.
WireTap: An excerpt from the transcript of a live discussion betweeen American and Iraqi college students.

Montel's Five Minutes

By Montel Williams, AlterNet. September 25, 2004.
DrugReporter: In an impassioned plea to the president, talk show host and MS sufferer Montel Williams describes how medical marijuana has given him his life back.

Listen Up, Mr. President

AlterNet. September 24, 2004.
Election 2004: What would you say to George Bush if you had five minutes with the man? Janeane Garofalo, Minnie Driver, Montel Williams and Morgan Fairchild have their say.

How Greenpeace Got Its Name

By Rex Weyler, Dragonfly Review. September 9, 2004.
Environment: Inspiration, synchronicity and a nameless, imaginary boat led a band of determined activists to start the world's most famous environmental movement.

Will the Hip Hop Generation Go Green?

By Farai Chideya, AlterNet. September 9, 2004.
Election 2004: Will voters of color ever take to any of the smaller political parties out there? Farai Chideya explores this in her new book, "Trust: Reaching the 100 Million Missing Voters."

A Man of His Words

By George Lakoff, AlterNet. September 8, 2004.
Media and Technology: In this excerpt from his new book, "Don't Think of an Elephant!" George Lakoff talks about how transforming the language of politics can help win the good fight.

The Power of Framing

By Don Hazen, AlterNet. September 8, 2004.
Media and Technology: In this introduction to George Lakoff’s new book, we meet the master of the art and science of political framing.

The Bush Crusade

By James Carroll, Tomdispatch.com. September 4, 2004.
World: Are we reliving that dark, seething religious history of sacred violence that is the Crusades?

By Their Fruits Ye Shall Know Them

By Mark Crispin Miller, AlterNet. August 31, 2004.
Election 2004: A powerful excerpt from Miller's book, "Cruel and Unusual," arguing that Bush is inching us toward a theocratic White House.

My Problem with Her Anger

By Eric Bartels, AlterNet. August 17, 2004.
This is the kind of vitriol that should be reserved for lying politicians or corporate greed – not a dedicated marriage partner with garden-variety human foibles.

How Mad Can a Mother Get?

By Elissa Schappell, AlterNet. August 17, 2004.
Where once seeing a mother dragging a kid down the street like a wildebeest would have made me shake my head in horror, I now sigh in sympathy – for the mother, not the children.

The $200 Billion Colossus

By Marcia Angell, AlterNet. August 13, 2004.
Environment: "When I say this is a profitable industry, I mean really profitable. It is difficult to conceive of how awash in money big pharma is."

The Art of Jailing

By Mark Dow, AlterNet. August 12, 2004.
Rights and Liberties: Detained immigrants and prison guards speak about life inside a famed detention facility in this excerpt from the book American Gulag: Inside U.S. Immigration Prisons.

Sore Winners

By John Powers, AlterNet. August 6, 2004.
Election 2004: "Today's Winners don't simply win, they win badly: bragging, sneering, lording it over the Losers, and promoting themselves with a crassness that would leave Duddy Kravitz blushing."

Sales Clerk, Ph.D

By Jim Hightower, AlterNet. July 22, 2004.
Election 2004: The number one job-creator for America's future? Restaurant workers, including fast food. You don't need a high-tech degree, you need a hair net!

Red-State America Against Itself

By Thomas Frank, Tomdispatch.com. July 20, 2004.
Election 2004: Kansas, once part of the great progressive heart of America, is now a conservative "red" state. How liberalism lost Kansas – and a whole lot of working-class America with it.

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised

By Joe Trippi, AlterNet. July 12, 2004.
Election 2004: An excerpt from the new book by Joe Trippi, the mastermind of the Howard Dean campaign.

Homeland America

By Dale Maharidge, Michael Williamson, AlterNet. July 2, 2004.
In a new book, Dale Maharidge travels across the country with photographer Michael Williamson, the two of them seeking to capture this American moment in prose and images.

Soldier of Fortune

By Ian Williams, AlterNet. June 28, 2004.
A third of George Bush's public speeches have been in a military venue, often in uniform. There is nothing this draft-dodging, Ivy League jock loves as much as playing commander-in-chief.

Start Making Sense: Contributors

AlterNet. April 20, 2004.
Start Making Sense: A list of contributors to Start Making Sense.

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