By Beth Werlin, Immigration Impact. January 25, 2010. Immigration:The decision not only preserves federal court review as a necessary check on executive powers, but it also affirms the basic principle that immigrants are entitled to fair process.
By Andres Caballero, New America Media. January 25, 2010. Immigration:The Black Alliance for Just Immigration hopes to highlight the struggles shared by both African-American and immigrant groups.
By Brad Friedman, Brad Blog. January 25, 2010. World:Following the discovery that American guns were inscribed with biblical passages, the Military Religious Freedom Foundation received anti-Semitic emails.
By Rick Gell, AlterNet. January 24, 2010. No doubt Senator Ted Kennedy is rolling in his grave -- but if you listen very closely -- he isn't sighing -- he is saying "sign it."
By Jeremy Scahill, The Nation. January 22, 2010. No sooner did Defense Secretary Gates admit during a visit to Islamabad that Blackwater is in the country, than the Pentagon rushed to "clarify" his remarks.
By Rebecca Solnit, Tomdispatch.com. January 22, 2010. In the wake of the Haiti earthquake, false depictions of victims as criminals hinder the relief effort.
By Esther M. Gentile, New America Media. January 22, 2010. Civil Liberties:According to lawyers from the ACLU, the techniques are intrusive and ineffectual -- tantamount to racial profiling.
By Sahil Kapur, Raw Story. January 22, 2010. Congressman says of recent Supreme Court ruling removing decades of campaign spending limits on corporations "opens the floodgates for the purchases and sale of the law."
By Phillip S. Smith, Drug War Chronicle. January 22, 2010. Will the second time be the charm in South Dakota? Four years ago, a medical marijuana initiative there lost by four points. Now, advocates are ready to try again
By Jerrold Kessel, Pierre Klochendler, IPS News. January 22, 2010. Israel's President Shimon Peres recently referred to the Israeli Defense Forces as the "Israeli forces for saving mankind."
By Garry Pierre-Pierre, New America Media. January 22, 2010. A gallon of cooking oil that cost $10 only days ago now fetches US$20. What will they cost tomorrow? No one knows.
By Scott Klinger, AlterNet. January 22, 2010. Civil Liberties:Corporations now have all the privileges of citizenship, without any of the responsibilities.
By Jim Hightower, AlterNet. January 22, 2010. News & Politics:Our financial rulers were so intoxicated with the fumes of their own omnipotence that they failed abjectly as regulators, as public servants and, most certainly, as gods.
By Liliana Segura, AlterNet. January 21, 2010. Take Action:One expert calls the Citizens United decision 'the most radical and destructive campaign finance decision in the history of the Supreme Court.'
By Zach Carter, AlterNet. January 21, 2010. Obama's endorsement of Volcker's plan is truly an extraordinary step forward for economic policy, but there's a long way to go.
By Guy T. Saperstein, AlterNet. January 21, 2010. The first thing Dems need to do is stop feeling sorry for themselves. They still control the presidency and have large majorities in the Congress.
By Joe Bageant, JoeBageant.com. January 21, 2010. Like "populism," many Americans don't know what democracy really is, but believe it's tied to the free market capitalism that issues forth such things as bass fishing boats.
By Shannon Rupp, AlterNet. January 21, 2010. Media and Culture:Gretchen Rubin's book flogs American enthusiasm for positive thinking, despite facts to the contrary; just the sort of denial that prompted the economic meltdown.
By Bill Scher, Campaign for America's Future. January 21, 2010. News & Politics:Two senators want to blackmail the rest by saddling a spending bill with a "debt commission." Progressive leaders are crying foul.
By Renée Feltz, Texas Observer. January 21, 2010. Civil Liberties:Despite a U.S. Supreme Court ban, Texas still sends mentally retarded people to the execution chamber. Now, one Mexican immigrant's case could change this.
By Brian Merchant, TreeHugger. January 20, 2010. Environment:Scott Brown's ascension may indeed have severe implications for the Democratic agenda -- including a climate change and energy bill.
By Faiz Shakir, The Progress Report. January 20, 2010. Environment:Her "Dirty Air Act" resolution would threaten the hopes for a clean energy economic recovery for the nation.
By Robin Madel, Green Fork Blog. January 20, 2010. Water:As scary as tap can be in certain places, there even more reason to be concerned with bottled water.
By Robert Parry, Consortium News. January 20, 2010. Media and Culture:MSNBC's Chris Matthews personifies the puffed-up self-importance and total lack of self-awareness that has come to define America's media punditocracy.
By Stephen Piggott, Imagine 2050. January 20, 2010. Immigration:Among those in attendance were Linda Ronstadt and Zach de la Rocha, the lead singer of Rage Against the Machine.
By David Edwards, Daniel Tencer, Raw Story. January 20, 2010. News & Politics:After Sen. elect Brown offered his daughters as "available," at his victory speech, Beck remarked: "I don't trust this guy. This one could end with a dead intern."
By William Greider, The Nation. January 20, 2010. News & Politics:The Dems' loss in Massachusetts put on display the monumental miscalculations by which Obama has governed. Now it's time for him to change.
By Gabriel LernerJanuary 20, 2010. Civil Liberties:Last week, Cuentame streamed my video discussing Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s importance for Latinos in the US.
By Allison Kilkenny, AlterNet. January 20, 2010. Civil Liberties:You'll get more radiation from traveling in an airplane. But there are plenty of other reasons to hate the scanners.
By Glenn Greenwald, Salon. January 20, 2010. Civil Liberties:Recent paper by Obama adviser Cass Sunstein proposes bizarre methods to stamp out "false conspiracy theories," including taxing the people who engage in them.
By John Nichols, TheNation.com. January 19, 2010. News & Politics:Dems need to recognize that they've mismanaged the health care debate, spent too little time focused on jobs and haven't held Wall Street and the big banks to account.
By Jeffrey S. Kaye, TruthOut.org. January 19, 2010. World:According to a new report, "self-immolation is being used by increasing numbers of Afghan women to escape their dire circumstances."
By Dan Bacher, AlterNet. January 19, 2010. Water:Don't be surprised if Schwarzenegger will now use the threat of catastrophic flooding of Biblical proportions to promote the $11.1 water bond on the November ballot.
By Jeff Biggers, AlterNet. January 19, 2010. Environment:Stephen Colbert hosted scientist Margaret Palmer in a brilliant takedown of the Obama administration's recent decision to green light more mountaintop removal permits.
By Bill Moyers, Thomas Frank, Bill Moyers Journal. January 19, 2010. Bill Moyers interviews Thomas Frank on how our short attention span has allowed conservatives to escape blame for their role in the economic meltdown.
By Michael Bader, AlterNet. January 19, 2010. Sex & Relationships:Sexual compulsions are real and they harm the person in their grip as well as others. But treating them like a problem -- something to be 'fixed' -- isn't working.
By Lee Drutman, Miller-McCune.com. January 18, 2010. News & Politics:Conservative ideas, like support for the status quo and justifications for inequality, can make the world seem like a more secure place for those who don't like uncertainty.
By Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins, AlterNet. January 18, 2010. Economy:Dr. King did not know green-collar jobs or the clean-energy economy. But the principles of equality, justice and opportunity remain the same.
