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Why Are People Obsessed with Their Kids?

By Vanessa Richmond, The Tyee. June 29, 2009.
Sex and Relationships: Our current interest in children and parenting is neither normal nor historical. Nor is it very healthy for kids, parents and society at large.

Sanford's Sordid Sex Saga: Why We Like Publicly Shaming Hypocrite Politicians

By David Rosen, CounterPunch. June 29, 2009.
Sex and Relationships: Last week, Gov. Mark Sanford participated in one of the oldest social rituals in American history: public shaming of the moral hypocrite.

Abyss of Joblessness: The Economy Can't Improve Unless We Put People Back to Work

By Bob Herbert, The New York Times. June 29, 2009.
Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace: How do you put together a consumer economy that works when the consumers are out of work?

Michael Jackson Was a Freak -- Just Like You and Me

By Richard Kim, The Nation. June 27, 2009.
Media and Technology: Lodged somewhere between the superhuman and the alien, aspiration and disgust, he was a grotesque reflection of our collective desires.

Was the Economic Meltdown a Crisis of Masculinity Run Amuck? It's Time for Women to Step In

By Courtney E. Martin, AlterNet. June 27, 2009.
Reproductive Justice and Gender: If it had been Lehman Brothers and Sisters, would the financial meltdown have shaken out in the same way?

Rating the Greatest GOP Sex Scandals of the Past 20 Years

By Brad Reed, AlterNet. June 26, 2009.
Sex and Relationships: From Clarence Thomas to Mark Sanford, the definitive guide to randy Republicans

Western Governors, We Need to Start Making Big Changes to Water Management

By Peter Gleick, Pacific Institute. June 26, 2009.
Water: We need big changes out west when it comes to water policy. These are the changes I've told governors we need to make.

Why Do Atheists Have to Talk About Atheism?

By Greta Christina, AlterNet. June 26, 2009.
Thinking you're right and trying to persuade other people you're right is not intolerant or close-minded -- it's a cornerstone of democracy.

Can Gardening Make Your Sex Life Better?

By Makenna Goodman, Chelsea Green Publishing. June 25, 2009.
Sex and Relationships: The skeptical reader will probably go, say what? But I believe gardening is a good model to go off of -- in terms of getting off.

Jingoism Isn't Journalism: Why I Don't Trust Corporate Media on Iran

By Linda Milazzo, AlterNet. June 25, 2009.
Media and Technology: Why is corporate media so eager to cover the people's movement in Iran, but unwilling to cover the anti-war movement here?

Congress, Think Small: We Don't Need a National Supergrid, We Need Microgrids

By Kurt Yeager, AlterNet. June 25, 2009.
Environment: Congress is fast-tracking legislation for a national grid that does little to improve energy efficiency or reliability.

Obama's False Financial Reform Is Nothing But Smooth Talk and Some Fuzzy Plans

By William Greider, The Nation. June 25, 2009.
Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace: Missing in the Obama plan are hard rules -- the classic quality of laws that command behavior by prescribing "thou shalt" or 'thou shalt not."

Gas Pump Thievery: Who's Really Behind the Rising Prices at the Pumps?

By Jim Hightower, AlterNet. June 25, 2009.
Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace: What's going on here is not the "magic of the marketplace," but some hocus-pocus by brand-name dealers.

So What Happened to That Talk About Reining in CEO Pay?

By Chuck Collins, Sam Pizzigati, AlterNet. June 25, 2009.
Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace: The Obama administration has watered down the rules on executive pay into mushy prescriptions that pose no real threat to the Big Boys' windfalls.

The Real ID Act Is an Unfixable Disaster... Why Tinkering with it Won't Help

By Joan Friedland, Immigration Impact. June 24, 2009.
Immigration: PASS ID would repeal the REAL ID Act, a burdensome, unfunded mandate that's akin to creation of a national ID system.

McDonald's Is Poisoning Consumers -- And Blaming Everyone Else for the Catastrophic Societal Costs

By Stacey Folsom, AlterNet. June 24, 2009.
Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace: McDonald's refuses to take responsibility for the skyrocketing rates of obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular disease.

Americans Demand a Public Option in Health Care -- When Will Politicians Listen?

By Robert Parry, Consortium News. June 23, 2009.
Health and Wellness: Even in special-interest-dominated Washington, it's rare for politicians to so blatantly privilege a private industry over the will of the people.

Iran Had a Democracy Before We Took It Away

By Chris Hedges, Truthdig. June 23, 2009.
World: Iranians do not need or want us to teach them about liberty and representative government. It is we who need to be taught.

Virginity Movement on the Defensive, Scrambling to Rebrand

By Jessica Valenti, The Nation. June 23, 2009.
Sex and Relationships: Progressives have to fight to ensure that abstinence groups don't regain their cultural footing.

A Plea To President Obama: End Mountaintop Coal Mining

By James Hansen, Yale Environment 360. June 22, 2009.
Environment: The climate crisis demands a moratorium on new coal-fired power plants. Obama is the best hope, perhaps the only hope, for real change.

Neocons Are Clueless About Iran

By Leslie Savan, The Nation. June 22, 2009.
World: The Iran protests have thrown Republican ideologues into such a tizzy of circular logic that they're stepping on their own propaganda.

Obama Must Dare To Be Revolutionary

By David Sirota, AlterNet. June 22, 2009.
For all the positive steps Obama's America seems poised to take, the aspirations still seem too confined by old conceptions of how things must work.

Right-Wing Hypocrites: 10 Reasons Conservatives Should Shut Up About Letterman's Sarah Palin Gaffe

By Karl Frisch, Media Matters for America. June 22, 2009.
Media and Technology: Each and every day conservative radio hosts, cable-news hosts, pundits and columnists use divisive, insensitive, and downright hateful rhetoric.

Whiny Conservatives: How Dare Rich White Guys Cry About Oppression?

By Christopher Deis, AlterNet. June 22, 2009.
Media and Technology: The right-wing media have crafted an absurd -- and dangerous -- political narrative of white male oppression, exclusion and victimization.

Men, Take a Stand Against Domestic Violence

By Rob Okun, AlterNet. June 21, 2009.
Reproductive Justice and Gender: For decades women have been doing the heavy lifting to prevent domestic violence. More men need to join. Now.

Warning: Health Care Lobbyists Are Winning the Battle to Screw All of Us

By Marie Cocco, Washington Post Writers Group. June 18, 2009.
Health and Wellness: Lobbyists sense that their chances of protecting big insurers, drug companies, medical specialties, technology companies are improving.

Iran's Balance of Power Has Been Upended -- Is the Country Teetering Toward Civil War?

By Robert Dreyfuss, The Nation. June 18, 2009.
World: Things are ugly now. But they could rapidly get a lot uglier, more violent, and more civil war-like. Will opposition maintain its momentum?

Right-Wing Extremists Threaten Women's Rights All Over the World

By Gillian Kane, AlterNet. June 17, 2009.
Reproductive Justice and Gender: Around the world, antiabortion organizations use their political influence and dangerous rhetoric to punish and endanger women.

Shame: The 'Anti-War' Democrats Who Sold Out

By Jeremy Scahill, AlterNet. June 17, 2009.
World: In a historic vote, only 30 of 256 Democrats stood against $100 billion for more war.

I Know What Rape Really Looks Like; How Can the Media Glamorize It?

By Charlotte Hilton Andersen, Huffington Post. June 17, 2009.
Reproductive Justice and Gender: Rape is vicious, cruel, painful and damaging. I shouldn't have to explain this to you. But from the way our media treats rape, apparently I do.

Is Fox So Crazy That It's Even Alienating Some Conservatives?

By Eric Boehlert, Media Matters for America. June 17, 2009.
Media and Technology: The hate-filled rhetoric spewed by Fox pundits like Glenn Beck and Bill O'Reilly is even alarming some of the people who work there.

Higher Education Is Stuck in the Middle Ages -- Will Universities Adapt or Die Off in Our Digital World?

By Don Tapscott, Edge. June 17, 2009.
There is a huge clash between the model of learning offered by big universities and the natural way that young people who have grown up digital learn.

Atheism: Living Life Unfettered by Supernaturalism and Groupthink -- Interview With Sikivu Hutchinson

By Greta Christina, Greta Christina's Blog. June 17, 2009.
African-American atheist Sikivu Hutchinson calls on black atheists to play a critical role in the atheism movement.

What I Learned at My First Orgy

By Greta Christina, Greta Christina's Blog. June 15, 2009.
Sex and Relationships: There's nothing quite like seeing six naked people having sex. I undressed, joined in and learned lessons that are with me to this day.

Eating Meat Is Not Natural

By Kathy Freston, AlterNet. June 15, 2009.
Eating meat is a relatively recent phenomenon in human evolution. And our bodies have never adapted to it.

Iran's Stolen Election Has Sparked an Uprising -- What Should the U.S. Do?

By Stephen Zunes, AlterNet. June 15, 2009.
World: Can the United States speed the process for greater freedom in Iran? Yes. By staying out of the way as much as possible.

White House Tries to Strong Arm Progressive Dems -- We Can't Let That Happen

By Robert Naiman, AlterNet. June 15, 2009.
The White House wants progressive House Democrats to abandon their constituents and their principles and vote for the War/IMF supplemental.

Hey Kids, Have Lots of Sex -- It's What Your Parents Did at Your Age

By Jeff Schult, AlterNet. June 13, 2009.
Sex and Relationships: The media is freaking out about young people "hooking up." That's what we did in the '70s, and we turned out great!

No One Deserves to Die by Overdose

By Jill Harris, AlterNet. June 12, 2009.
DrugReporter: We must learn how to reduce the harms from drug use, including reducing the unconscionable and unnecessary number of deaths from overdose.

Nasty Ads and Shady Campaign Contributions Take Over Judicial Races

By Marie Cocco, Washington Post Writers Group. June 12, 2009.
With 39 states now electing judges, the threat to impartial justice is frightening.

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