By Amy Goodman, Sharif Abdel Kouddous, Democracy Now!. January 13, 2010. World:Haiti has been devastated by a massive 7.0-magnitude earthquake. The extent of the disaster is still unknown, but there are fears that tens of thousands of people have died.
By Amy Goodman, Anjali Kamat, Democracy Now!. January 9, 2010. World:Author: "Obama seems to have killed more civilians during his first year than Bush did in his first year."
By Daniela Perdomo, AlterNet. December 31, 2009. News & Politics:Monopoly capitalism exemplifies everything that's gone wrong with American politics, and we need to do something about it -- soon.
By Sena Christian, AlterNet. December 5, 2009. Sex & Relationships:Ted Cox posed as a gay man to infiltrate gay-to-straight therapy programs. What he found was equal parts shocking and tragic.
By Kiera Butler, Mother Jones. December 5, 2009. Food:Foer's new book, Eating Animals, uncovers some ugly truths about America's meat production system, but he also weaves in stories from his own family history.
By Bill Moyers, Bill Moyers Journal. December 1, 2009. Environment:A fascinating and wide-ranging discussion with Jane Goodall on what chimps tell us about human beings and what we must do to save these animals from extinction.
By Amy Goodman, Juan Gonzalez, Democracy Now!. November 30, 2009. World:Border guards held Goodman and her colleagues for an hour and a half, searching their belongings and telling them they could only stay in the country for two days.
By Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!. November 26, 2009. World:Stephen Goose, director of Human Rights Watch's arms division, called the decision to keep the Bush-era policy "an appalling decision."
By Anis Shivani, 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.
By Bill Moyers, Bill Moyers Journal. November 20, 2009. World: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.
By Andy Kroll, AlterNet. November 20, 2009. World: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.
By Robert S. Eshelman, The Brooklyn Rail. November 10, 2009. World: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 9, 2009. Personal Health: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.
By Kathy Freston, AlterNet. October 31, 2009. Personal Health:A plant-based diet is both preventative and healing, whereas a diet high in animal protein is destructive to our health.
By Mark Engler, Foreign Policy in Focus. October 27, 2009. Movie Mix:The Yes Men pose as spokespeople for major companies or bodies like the World Trade Organization, and give presentations that highlight the logic of corporate greed.
By Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!. October 19, 2009. Immigration:The 287(g) program gives local law enforcement authority to enforce federal immigration laws, which has led to accusations of racial profiling.
By Bill Berkowitz, Religion Dispatches. October 12, 2009. News & Politics:It was a hot summer full of sex scandals for GOP members of "The Family," the exclusive conservative Christian group with designs on DC power.
By Emily Wilson, AlterNet. October 10, 2009. Personal Health:The author talks about how a plague of positive thinking is permeating our society, from medicine to business, and is even contributing to our financial crisis.
By Max Blumenthal, Fresh Air - NPR. October 8, 2009. News & Politics:Max Blumenthal, author of Republican Gomorrah, argues the right is incapable of anything but scorched-earth politics, and are trying to delegitimize the Obama presidency.
By Robert GreenwaldOctober 1, 2009. News & Politics:In this week’s show, director Michael Moore asks Sen. Sanders "what is wrong with American capitalism these days?"
By Amy Goodman, Juan Gonzalez, Democracy Now!. October 1, 2009. Civil Liberties:In its first review of the PATRIOT Act, the Court will rule on an anti-terror law outlawing any aid to groups on the State Department's list of terrorist groups.
By Makenna Goodman, Chelsea Green Publishing. September 28, 2009. Environment:More and more people are growing their own veggies, but what about grains?
By Kathy Freston, AlterNet. September 25, 2009. Personal Health:Experts are saying a plant-based diet is not only good for our health, but it's also curative of the very serious diseases we face.
By Naomi Klein, The Nation. September 25, 2009. Movie Mix:Moore discusses his new documentary film, widely praised as a call for a revolt against capitalist madness.
By Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!. September 24, 2009. Environment:Has the UN climate summit in New York just set the stage for disappointment in Copenhagen?
By Greta Christina, The Blowfish Blog. September 21, 2009. Sex & Relationships:Mike Rogers talks about why it's important to report on the secret sex lives of gay conservatives who are in bed with anti-gay forces.
By Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!. September 16, 2009. Water:Forty percent of the nation’s community water systems violated the Safe Drinking Water Act at least once, exposing over 23 million people to potential danger.
By Nathan Schneider, The Immanent Frame. September 8, 2009. Civil Liberties:A religion scholar discusses the failure of the courts to grapple with lived religion, the prison crisis and why we are all religious now.
By Juan Gonzalez, Democracy Now!. September 5, 2009. News & Politics:Max Blumenthal's new book traces the rise of the Radical Right and how it captured control of the GOP and turned it into the party of Sarah Palin.
By Joshua Holland, AlterNet. September 5, 2009. Movie Mix:An incredibly powerful new documentary finally lets those who've lived it tell the story -- from the "creative" financiers to the home buyers duped by brokers.
By Fred Gardner, O'Shaughnessy's. September 1, 2009. Drugs:Phillip Northcutt started legally cultivating medical marijuana to deal with PTSD from fighting in the Iraq. It wasn't long before the police and the courts caught up with him.
By Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!. August 10, 2009. Personal Health:The food industry has changed American eating habits and helped create the country's No. 1 public-health issue.
By Helaine Olen, AlterNet. August 7, 2009. Media:Author Doug Rushkoff warns of the dominance of profit and consumerism in our mindsets, and offers a way out of the corporate culture.
By Staff, Carnal Nation. August 6, 2009. Sex & Relationships:Paul Krassner talks about same-sex marriage, indecency, and our culture's hypocrisy about sex.
By Jeremy Scahill, The Nation. July 30, 2009. World:In an exclusive interview, Feingold argues why his lone vote to oppose expanding the military by 30,000 soldiers was the right one.
By Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!. July 27, 2009. World:"We are Hondurans. This is our land, these are our people, and this is our family. We do not want to go to another country."
By Sonali Kolhatkar, Uprising Radio. July 23, 2009. World:The past 8 years have done more harm than good to women's rights in Afghanistan -- the U.S. is waging a war, not winning a peace.
Monopoly Capitalism Is the Root of All of America's Problems
Going Undercover in the Crazy, Tragic World of Christian Gay-Conversion Therapy
Author Jonathan Safran Foer on Hunting, PETA, and Disagreeing with Michael Pollan
Bill Moyers & Jane Goodall: What Chimps Reveal About Human Brutality, Violence, Compassion and Hope
Amy Goodman Detained at Canadian Border; Guards Demand Notes For Speaking Event
Citing "National Defense Needs," Obama Administration Says it Won't Sign Ban on Land Mines
Barbara Ehrenreich: Our Maniacal Optimism Is Ruining the World
Why Is Congress Demonizing an Investigation of Israel's War Crimes in Gaza?
'The Things We Do to Make It Home' -- Novel Takes Us Back to Soldiers' Horrors of Vietnam
"Women Are Being Killed All Over the World": One Reporter's Fight Against So-Called "Honor Killings"
Despite Censorship By Beef Magnate, Michael Pollan Spreads Message About the Real Price of Cheap Food
Bill Moyers and James Galbraith: Our Free Market Makes Economic Collapse Inevitable
There Is a Way to Help Avoid Heart Disease and Diabetes: You Are What You Eat!
The Yes Men: Pranksters Out to Fix the World
Dept of Homeland Security Expands Controversial Program Empowering Local Police
Republican Senate Sex Scandals Point Back to Secretive Conservative Christian "Family"
Barbara Ehrenreich: The Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America
Republican Gomorrah: The Shattered GOP, Taken Over by Authoritarian Radicals, Is Incapable of Compromise
Senator Sanders and Michael Moore Talk Capitalism
Supreme Court to Take Up PATRIOT Act With Review of Humanitarian Aid Case
Farmer Gene Logsdon Explains How to Make Your Own Home-Grown 'Pancake Patch'
Is Eating a Plant-Based Diet a Cure for Cancer?
Naomi Klein Interviews Michael Moore on the Perils of Capitalism
G20 Interview: Planning New Global Financial Regulatory Frameworks
With Copenhagen Summit Approaching, Leading Polluters US and China Undercut Hopes of Substantial Pollution Cuts
Mike Rogers: The Man Who Outs Closeted Right-Wing Politicians
Are You Drinking Unsafe Water? Corporations Have Violated Clean Water Act Over 500,000 Times in Last Five Years
Republican Gomorrah: Inside the Movement That Shattered the Party
'American Casino': How Our Nation's Financial Sector Became a Massive and Unregulated Gambling Operation
Sgt. Northcutt's Post-Iraq Nightmare: Getting Arrested for Growing Pot
"When in Doubt, Add Bacon and Cheese": How the Food Industry Hijacked Our Brains and Made Us Fat
Corporate Dominance of Every Aspects of Our Lives Is Suffocating us
In Praise of Indecency: Paul Krassner Interviewed by Carol Queen
Sen. Russ Feingold: White House Is Whistling Past Afghan Graveyard
First Lady Xiomara Castro de Zelaya, Wife of Ousted Honduran President, Speaks Out About Coup
Afghan Presidential Candidate: The U.S. Occupation Must End