Alternet News4294977146 stories between 05/28/2009 at 16:49:53 and 02/08/2012 03:28:57
Has the Market Rejected the Religious Right's Hateful Social Agenda?
It's clear from advertising that the market does not favor the GOP's social agenda.
03:28 AM Alternet I'm on Food Stamps: My Shame and Pride in Signing up for the Most Stigmatized Benefit
I call myself frayed white collar -- part of the privileged poor. I'm a semi-accomplished, mid-career journalist and writer, but now I'm hurtling precipitously toward poverty.
03:28 AM Alternet 5 Amazing Places in the US in Danger of Being Destroyed by Dirty Energy
We've won a temporary reprieve from the Keystone XL Pipeline, but there are still places greatly at risk in the country.
03:28 AM Alternet Obama Campaign Copies Gingrich -- Decries Then Embraces Super-PACs
The 2012 money race is on, with both sides looking to secretive groups to fuel their ad wars.
03:28 AM Alternet How a Few Ãœber-Wealthy Donors Helped Buy Republicans a Presidential Field They Hate
In the era of Citizens United, early money from deep-pocketed donors played a major role in shaping the GOP field.
03:28 AM Alternet 5 Big Lies About the Phony 'War on Religion'
Right-wingers claim Obama and Democrats across the country are waging a war on religion -- and of course, conservatives are the civilian casualties.
03:28 AM Alternet One of Congress's Most Damaging (and Racist) Budget Cuts That Flew Under the Radar
The fund for lead-poisoning prevention was almost entirely eliminated. And here's why this is such a big deal.
08:53 PM on 02/07/2012 Alternet Is It Time for Fair Trade Porn?
Like people once thought little about their food's provenance, porn consumers think little about where their porn is sourced. But that could change.
08:53 PM on 02/07/2012 Alternet How Soul Train's Don Cornelius Helped Make Black America Visible
Looking at the legacy of the beloved show host and newsman, who passed last week at age 75.
08:53 PM on 02/07/2012 Alternet Join Us: AlterNet Expands its Coverage of Labor and Workers' Rights
Conservatives' anti-worker crusade will not go unchallenged. We're ratcheting up our worker coverage by establishing a unique Labor special coverage area.
07:12 PM on 02/07/2012 Alternet Profiting From Catastrophe: If Fossil Fuel Companies Burn All Their Reserves We're Undeniably Screwed
Here are the facts: The business models at the center of our economy are in the deepest possible conflict with physics and chemistry.
04:59 PM on 02/07/2012 Alternet Report: "Enforcement-Only" Immigration Strategy Still an Utter Disaster
The result has been undermining human rights, devastating families and communities, hurting local economies and placing unnecessary burdens on all Americans.
01:05 PM on 02/07/2012 Alternet Revealed: How Syngenta Investigated the Press and Shaped the News About its Controversial Weed-Killer Atrazine
A new investigation shows the global chemical company spent millions spinning news coverage and tracking journalists as concern grew over potential health risks of atrazine.
12:24 PM on 02/07/2012 Alternet How Soul Train’s Don Cornelius Helped Make Black America Visible
Looking at the legacy of the beloved show host and newsman, who passed last week at age 75
11:57 AM on 02/07/2012 Alternet Has Personal Finance Goddess Suze Orman Lost Her Luster?
If she doesn't find a way to offer a mea culpa, some of her devotees may desert her shrine and find another idol.
03:08 AM on 02/07/2012 Alternet Dennis Kucinich v. Marcy Kaptur: How GOP Redistricting Will Force Out a Top Progressive Congressmember
Two progressive champions are facing off for one seat in Congress. What's a voter to do?
03:08 AM on 02/07/2012 Alternet Busting Through the Media Firestorm: 6 Essential Facts About the Komen Controversy
How many of the rumors are inflated, and how many get at the real heart of why people responded to this decision with so much outrage?
03:08 AM on 02/07/2012 Alternet Sex Therapist Shares the Secret to Hot Sex (Hint: It Has More to Do With the Mind Than the Body)
Sex therapist Marty Klein's message is antithetical to the sex advice found everywhere from self-help books to the supermarket checkout line.
03:08 AM on 02/07/2012 Alternet Why the Right Wing Is Petrified of Letting Voters, Instead of the Electoral College, Pick Presidents
A movement to reform the Electoral College and elect the president based on the national popular vote has half the states it needs.
03:08 AM on 02/07/2012 Alternet How Deep Is the Republican Christian Right's Connection to the Anti-Gay Bills Sweeping Sub-Saharan Africa?
As the horrific "kill-the-gays" bill resurfaces in Uganda, Republican politicians deny connections, but their rhetoric is frighteningly similar.
03:08 AM on 02/07/2012 Alternet How Rich Executives Extract Concessions From Workers -- While Playing the Good Guy in Public
That's what's on the rise: Management attempting to exercise control over their workers -- in a brutal display of power. Give in to us or lose your paycheck right now.
10:36 PM on 02/06/2012 Alternet New Evidence Reveals U.S. Has Used Drones to Target Rescue Workers and Funerals in Pakistan
A report found that since President Obama took office between 282 and 535 civilians have been reported as killed in Pakistan, including more than 60 children.
10:36 PM on 02/06/2012 Alternet Thomas Frank Talks to Joshua Holland About the 'Hard-Times Swindle' and the Unlikely Comeback of the Right
Frank talks about Communism, the Tea Party and his new book, "Pity the Billionaire."
10:36 PM on 02/06/2012 Alternet Fighting Banks, Helping 100s of Families: 'Occupy Our Homes' Is One of the Occupy Movement's Great Success Stories
Occupy Our Homes takes the Occupy movement's general critique of inequality -- something often expressed in abstract charts and tables -- and makes the issue concrete.
03:06 PM on 02/06/2012 Alternet Occupy vs. Monsanto: Activists, Farmers Fight the Corporation They Fear Will Take Over All America's Crops
Occupy comes out to support a lawsuit that hopes to turn the tables on corporate farming behemoth Monsanto.
01:04 PM on 02/06/2012 Alternet Colorado 'Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol' Campaign Was Short on Signatures, But...
The campaign was found to have an unusually high number of invalid signatures, and now has 15 days to collect enough valid signatures to cover the shortfall.
07:53 AM on 02/06/2012 Alternet US Empire Is Changing its Stripes: Drones, Special Operations Forces and the US Navy Are Changing the Way We Do War
Make no mistake: we’re entering a new world of military planning. It won't make the Pentagon smaller, but it will change the nature of empire.
03:08 AM on 02/06/2012 Alternet How the Sexual Revolution Changed America Forever
With a little pharmaceutical ingenuity, the double standard relaxed its clawing grip on female humanity.
02:27 AM on 02/06/2012 Alternet 6 Things You Should Know About Arizona's Worse-Than-Wisconsin's Attack on Public Workers
Jan Brewer has decided to get in on the union-busting action, introducing a bill that makes Ohio's and Wisconsin's attacks on public workers look mild.
02:27 AM on 02/06/2012 Alternet Meet Gov. Scott Walker’s New Political Hit Women
The embattled Wisconsin governor hires two young Republicans who are veterans of no-holds-barred campaigns and propaganda efforts.
02:27 AM on 02/06/2012 Alternet Elect Romney, Get War in Iran?
Should Mitt Romney make it to the White House, his Middle East policy and plan for Iran may be as hawkish as that of Bush Junior, thanks to Eliot Cohen.
02:27 AM on 02/06/2012 Alternet Are Conservatives More Fearful Than Liberals?
The GOP seems to understand a psychological phenomenon that researchers are studying: conservatives appear to be motivated by fear in a way that liberals are not.
02:27 AM on 02/06/2012 Alternet How Privatizing Government Shovels Cash to Parasitic Corporations and Undermines Democracy
From schools to prisons, outsourcing government's works typically ends with cronyism, waste and unaccountability
01:05 AM on 02/06/2012 Alternet Why the "Liberal" Media Leaves Hawkish Foreign Policy Unchallenged
The New York Times' foreign affairs coverage belies its "liberal" reputation--but reinforces the class biases of its readers.
01:05 AM on 02/06/2012 Alternet Obama Brags on Saving Detroit--But Auto Industry Bailout Came on the Backs of Working People
To make the deal that saved the auto industry, Treasury demanded concessions from workers and a ban on strikes. Now Obama's bragging that he saved workers.
09:51 PM on 02/05/2012 Alternet Romney Wins Big in Nevada Caucuses; Gingrich Lashes Out, Vowing to Fight On11:14 AM on 02/05/2012 Alternet Why Closure of the Strait of Hormuz Could Ignite a War and a Global Depression
Why, of all locales, has it become so explosive?
09:54 AM on 02/05/2012 Alternet The Tragic Story of Christianity: How a Pacifist Religion Was Hijacked by Rabid Warmongering Elites
Though founded by a pacifist, Christianity has justified some of the most brutal slaughters in human history, but we may be able to recapture its peaceful essence.
09:54 AM on 02/05/2012 Alternet Why Don't We Pay People Enough? 8 Facts About America's Struggling Working People
Millions of people in the U.S. work and are still poor.
09:54 AM on 02/05/2012 Alternet How the Super Bowl Became the Center of a Political Showdown for Players and Workers
The NFL’s Players Association, the union that represents the league’s athletes, has come out in opposition to Indiana's proposed Right to Work legislation.
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