By Julie Martinez Ortega, Erin Johansson, AlterNet. September 13, 2004. Election 2004:A recent National Labor Relations Board decision has turned graduate students' "work" into "education," killing their right to unionize.
By James Galbraith, Washington Monthly. September 13, 2004. Election 2004:Bush's top economic priority has always been to cut taxes on the wealthy; his second term could finish the job.
By Dennis Keeney, Prairie Writers Circle. September 12, 2004. Environment:The capacity of the world's commercial agriculture to produce sufficient food faces some severe tests.
By Steven Rosenfeld, AlterNet. September 10, 2004. Media and Technology:We got mea culpas from the media for shoddy reporting about Iraq, but the presidential election coverage from this summer shows that the same mistakes are being repeated.
By Bill Moyers, NOW with Bill Moyers. September 10, 2004. Election 2004:Much of the truth about 9/11 is now public, thanks to the Commission's report: Key government officials failed the system, and they failed the American people.
By Doug Ireland, AlterNet. September 9, 2004. Election 2004:Ben Barnes' revelations on 60 Minutes have shaken the White House, but CBS' timidity has kept us from learning about the dirty politics Bush learned in Alabama.
By Michael Moore, AlterNet. September 8, 2004. Election 2004:A Republican pollster tells Moore: "Here's the bad news for Bush: Though 80% going in to your movie are Kerry voters, 100% of those coming out of your movie are Kerry voters."
By David Brock, Jamison Foser, AlterNet. September 8, 2004. Media and Technology:George Bush's image as a strong and decisive leader is a creation of journalists too lazy to notice that the president has a long history of changing his positions to suit his political needs.
By Baylen J. Linnekin, The D'Alliance. September 7, 2004. DrugReporter:A trashy new book resurfaces old allegations about Bush's substance abuse. But a closer look at the source reveals that the claims are less than reliable.
By Robert B. Reich, TomPaine.com. September 7, 2004. Election 2004:The Republicans are selling their vision of an "Ownership Society" to a nation of debtors.
By Frank Joyce, AlterNet. September 4, 2004. Operating union-free is a global trend. But workers shouldn't have to fight tooth and nail for fair representation.
By George Lakoff, AlterNet. September 3, 2004. Election 2004:George W. Bush yet again used the crutches of "liberty" and "freedom" to frame his candidacy.
By Nina Burleigh, AlterNet. September 3, 2004. Election 2004:The old conservative bulls in the Senate who have run the South for decades are giving way to a new kind of southern politics.
By The Editors, The Nation. September 3, 2004. Election 2004:The Republicans have exploited 9/11 with the hope that voters will abandon rational thought and rally around a "war president."
By James M. Lawson, Jr., AlterNet. September 3, 2004. We are a nation dependent on services provided by immigrants, women and people of color. Yet their employers refuse to accord them the respect, the dignity and the reward they deserve.
By George Lakoff, AlterNet. September 2, 2004. Election 2004:Wednesday's Republican convention speeches framed John Kerry using deceptive and dishonest language.
By Roberto Lovato, Pacific News Service. September 2, 2004. Election 2004:Immigration policy has been liberal on the podium and xenophobic in the hallways at the RNC.
By Katrina vanden Heuvel, The Nation. September 1, 2004. Election 2004:Democratic Sen. Zell Miller's speech at the Republican convention is the final stage of his bizarre political transformation.
By Laurie Spivak, AlterNet. September 1, 2004. Election 2004:With the death knell of small government pealing in the distance, will Republicans try to coopt progressivism?
By Rachel Neumann, AlterNet. August 31, 2004. Election 2004:In their creativity, spontaneity, and the lack of clear structure and organization, the protests on Tuesday were a marked contrast from the scene within the Convention.
By Michael Cudahy, AlterNet. August 30, 2004. Election 2004:A former staffer for Bush I says that the RNC isn't the best place to look for a clear sense of the GOP's agenda.
By John Stauber, Sheldon Rampton, AlterNet. August 28, 2004. Media and Technology:Bush & Co. used the old "third party technique" with their Swift Boat attacks on Kerry. The technique is simple: "Put your message in someone else's mouth that the public will listen to."
By Naomi Klein, The Nation. August 27, 2004. World:There is only one chance for Americans to express their wholehearted rejection of the ongoing war on Iraq: in the streets outside the Republican National Convention.
By Jan Frel, AlterNet. August 27, 2004. Election 2004:The time spent writing and discussing fictitious voter blocs like NASCAR dads, the redness or blueness of states, or the electoral scoreboard has turned our national elections into horse races.
By Laura Flanders, Air America Media. August 26, 2004. Election 2004:The story we have been hearing for years about demonstrators performing acts of violence at demonstrations doesn't fit with the facts.
By Ruth Rosen, AlterNet. August 24, 2004. The momentous events of the summer of 1964 – forty years ago – created many of our current cultural, social and political divisions.
By J. Douglas Allen-Taylor, Berkeley Daily Planet. August 21, 2004. Election 2004:Senator Kerry and his advisors have so far flubbed the explanation of his two key Iraqi war votes in a way that has put them on the defensive when they need not be.
By T. Eve Greenaway, AlterNet. August 20, 2004. Media and Technology:With a call to journey into a 'radical new future,' Adbusters magazine takes a step over the edge, leading readers blithely into a post-crash world.
By Medea Benjamin, AlterNet. August 18, 2004. Go to the barrios of Caracas, and it becomes obvious why the recall effort against Hugo Chavez failed: providing people with free health care, education, small business loans and job training is a good way to win the hearts and minds of the people.
By Ralph G. Neas, AlterNet. August 16, 2004. Election 2004:It would be nice if voter suppression and intimidation had truly been swept away in the '60s with the Voting Rights Act – recent events show it ain't so.
By Adam Williams, PopMatters. August 13, 2004. The late Rick James was a brilliant innovator and artist – one who will unfortunately forever be associated with the cliched trappings of sex, drugs and rock 'n roll.
By Caryl Rivers, Rosalind Barnett, Women's eNews. August 10, 2004. Media and Technology:Conventional wisdom, promoted by the media, suggests that the traditional wife is back in vogue. But research shows that financial independence, education and intelligence are really what's hot.
By Katha Pollitt, The Nation. August 10, 2004. Election 2004:Kerry stakes his claim to 'conservative values' – but it's a mistake to give the right a monopoly on values by agreeing with them in a half-baked, yes-but, wishy-washy way.
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