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The Cards Are Stacked Against Mothers in America -- Here's How We Can Fix It

By Don Hazen, AlterNet. May 10, 2008.
Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace: Joan Blades, founder of MomsRising.org, discusses bias against mothers in the workplace and the "mommy wars." (with video)

Let's Talk About Sex

By Bonnie Zylbergold, American Sexuality Magazine. May 8, 2008.
Reproductive Justice and Gender: A health educator uses hip-hop to talk to girls about gender and sexuality.

Evangelical Doctor Touts Better Health Care Plan Than Clinton, Obama

By Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!. May 6, 2008.
Health and Wellness: Unlike Clinton or Obama, Dr. Rocky White, an Evangelical from a conservative background, is promoting a single-payer health care system.

Using Higher Ed.'s $340 Billion in Endowments to Make the World a Better Place

By Don Hazen, Jan Frel, AlterNet. May 5, 2008.
Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace: Morgan Simon of the Responsible Endowment Coalition is helping student activists across the U.S. leverage their school endowments.

Ignore the Youth Vote at Your Own Peril

By Matisse Bustos Hawkes, AlterNet. May 2, 2008.
Election 2008: Mike Connery on why progressive leaders should stop lamenting 'youth apathy' and start engaging the most diverse, tolerant, generation in history.

Cruising the Cubicles: The Do's and Don'ts of Office Romance

American Sexuality Magazine. April 29, 2008.
Sex and Relationships: Stephanie Losee and Helaine Olen on finding and managing romantic relationships in the workplace.

Survival Guide for Life in a Sexist Society

By Jill Filipovic, AlterNet. April 25, 2008.
Reproductive Justice and Gender: Amanda Marcotte, author of It's a Jungle Out There, tells you how to fight modern-day misogyny and have fun at the same time. Excerpt follows.

'Bonk' Tells Us Some Amazing Things About Sex

By Don Hazen, Tana Ganeva, AlterNet. April 24, 2008.
Sex and Relationships: Author Mary Roach on why you're lucky that you're not a rhesus monkey and other interesting tidbits from scientific sex research.

Economist Fears Historic Loss of Assets for Minorities

By Sandip Roy, New American Media. April 19, 2008.
Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace: A warning that the current economic downturn could lead to the greatest loss of assets for communities of color that's ever happened.

Poland's Painful Past

By Vera von Kreutzbruck, The Women's International Perspective. April 18, 2008.
Movie Mix: Legendary Polish director Andrzej Wajda talks about the Katyn massacre.

Private Security Firm Spied on Environmental Groups for Corporate Clients

By Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!. April 15, 2008.
Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace: A private security firm infiltrated environmental groups, collected their phone records and confidential internal documents.

Pras Michel on Skid Row

By Katie Halper, AlterNet. April 12, 2008.
Movie Mix: Pras Michel went undercover in LA's Skid Row to experience first-hand the hardships faced by homeless people.

Pollan: Nutrition 'Science' Has Hijacked Our Meals -- and Our Health

By Terrence McNally, AlterNet. April 3, 2008.
Health and Wellness: Much of what lines supermarket aisles is not food. It's merely foodlike, and it's making us sick.

The Hypocrisy Gospel: Get Rich for Jesus?

Americans United for Separation of Church and State. April 2, 2008.
How the religious right uses the 'prosperity gospel' to win foot soldiers and continue its culture war.

Women Rise Up to Tackle the Water Crisis

By Rhyen Coombs, World Pulse. April 1, 2008.
Water: How community-based women's groups are taking part in the global water movement.

Sedatives and Sex Hormones in Our Water Supply

By Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!. March 25, 2008.
Water: An AP journalist who helped lead an frightening investigative report considers the dangers posed to the country's drinking water.

What the Government Doesn't Want You To Know About Global Warming

By Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!. March 24, 2008.
Environment: Famed NASA scientist Dr. James Hansen tells the depressing story of government censorship of years of impeccable research.

How Generation X Got the Shaft But Can Still Keep Everything From Sucking

By Helaine Olen, AlterNet. March 22, 2008.
Gen X'ers don't deserve their slacker reputation, argues the author of X Saves the World. After all, they can boast Google and Barack Obama.

How the Boomers Transformed Sex

American Sexuality Magazine. March 18, 2008.
Sex and Relationships: Richard Croker, author of the "Boomer Century," discusses the impact of 1960s and '70s sexual rebellion.

System of a Down's Serj Tankian Sings of Hope and Utter Despair

By Rose Aguilar, AlterNet. March 11, 2008.
MediaCulture: The former lead singer of System of a Down shares his feelings of hope, inspiration and utter dejection about our current state of affairs.

Michael Pollan: Don't Eat Anything That Doesn't Rot

By Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!. March 8, 2008.
Health and Wellness: Consumers are getting duped by the food industry, paying the price with their health.

Kenya in Translation: An Interview with Ngugi wa Thiong'o

By Emily Wilson, AlterNet. March 2, 2008.
Rights and Liberties: Ngugi wa Thiong'o was imprisoned for writing in his own language. He speaks to AlterNet about the importance of language in battling oppression.

The Corporate Threat to Water and the Water Justice Movement's Fight to Protect it

By Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!. March 2, 2008.
Water: An interview with international water guru Maude Barlow and clips from the new documentary Flow: For Love of Water.

Afghanistan: The Brutal and Unnecessary War the Media Aren't Telling You About

By Joshua Holland, AlterNet. February 26, 2008.
ForeignPolicy: It's easy to forget that the road to Guantánamo began in places like Kandahar and Jalalabad.

Self Help: $10 Billion for What?

By Emily Wilson, AlterNet. February 26, 2008.
Self-help is everywhere, but does it work? One writer immersed herself in the industry for a year to find out.

Iraq: Experiencing the War at Home

By Courtney E. Martin, AlterNet. February 21, 2008.
War on Iraq: Author Benjamin Percy discusses masculinity, fiction writing about Iraq, and how he got into writing to impress a girl.

Michael Pollan Debunks Food Myths

By Onnesha Roychoudhuri, AlterNet. February 20, 2008.
Health and Wellness: Pollan's new book, In Defense of Food, is a scathing indictment of the food industry and a call for a return to unprocessed food.

Bush Won't Let Facts Stand in the Way of Regime Change in Iran

By James Harris, Truthdig. February 15, 2008.
ForeignPolicy: Former UN chief weapons inspector Scott Ritter warns that another war is inevitable, unless we defy Bush's attempts to spin the facts about Iran.

The Key to Winning Ohio

By Katrina vanden Heuvel, The Nation. February 15, 2008.
Election 2008: Economic populism is the ticket.

Maude Barlow: The Growing Battle for the Right to Water

By Tara Lohan, AlterNet. February 14, 2008.
Water: Maude Barlow's new book about the water crisis is a call to arms to protect a fundamental human right.

A View of Iraq From Beyond the Green Zone

By Jeremy Scahill, The Nation. February 13, 2008.
War on Iraq: Journalist Dahr Jamail talks about the current state of Iraq and why an immediate withdrawal of American troops is necessary.

How America Can Be a Superpower the World Respects

By Jason Marsh, Greater Good. February 13, 2008.
ForeignPolicy: Seven principles that could offer a new model of American power -- one that inspires and mobilizes other nations to work with us.

Chomsky: Poorer Countries Find a Way to Escape U.S. Dominance

By Michael Shank, Foreign Policy in Focus. February 12, 2008.
ForeignPolicy: The famous critic lays out the emerging alternatives to the U.S.-dominated international financial institutions of the last century.

Reporting Iraq: Journalists' Coverage of a Censored War

By Onnesha Roychoudhuri, AlterNet. February 8, 2008.
War on Iraq: A new book takes a close look at the triumphs, challenges and regrets of reporters working to cover the first three years of the Iraq war.

Thirty Ways of Looking at Hillary

By Helaine Olen, AlterNet. January 31, 2008.
Some heroize her. Some hate her. There's something about Hillary, but what is it?

How the Mega-Rich Treat Our Treasury Like a Buffet (And Stick You With the Bill)

By Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!. January 21, 2008.
Political connections are worth their weight in gold for America's wealthy.

Dennis Kucinich's Fight to Bring Credibility to the Democratic Party

By Chris Hedges, Philadelphia Inquirer. January 19, 2008.
The resilient 2008 candidate attacks the "inside game between competing corporate interests" in U.S. politics.

Harold Bloom: 'What We Are Seeing Is the Fall of America'

By Eva Sohlman, The Wip. January 15, 2008.
MediaCulture: The long-time cultural critic warns that the war in Iraq is destroying the American empire.

"We Should Start Eating Insects"

By Marco Visscher, Ode. January 14, 2008.
Why Arnold van Huis wants us to eat cricket pies, fried grasshoppers and mealworm quiche. With four insectalicious recipes.

Consuming Our Way to Unhappiness

By Terrence McNally, AlterNet. January 10, 2008.
Our excessive consumption is trashing more than just the planet.

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