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Unlocking the Power of Art to Counter Injustice

By Anthony Papa, AlterNet. August 21, 2008.
DrugReporter: The Drug Policy Alliance's re:FORM art auction benefit marries art with tackling the ridiculous "war on drugs."

Communication Breakdown: How Cell Phones Hurt Communities

By Benjamin Dangl, AlterNet. August 21, 2008.
Media and Technology: Have cell phone kept us better connected or driven us into our own little worlds?

The Things Women Go Through to Attract Men ...

By Cheryl Saban, Huffington Post. August 21, 2008.
Sex and Relationships: A mind-boggling variety of torture devices have been contrived throughout history to make women more 'attractive' to men.

I Spent Years as a POW with John McCain, and His Finger Should Not Be Near the Red Button

By Phillip Butler, Military.com. August 21, 2008.
Election 2008: A fellow Vietnam POW of McCain's warns of the candidate's "quick and explosive temper" and suggests McCain is exaggerating his imprisonment.

The Right's Five Most Hilariously Boneheaded Anti-Obama Smears

By Brad Reed, AlterNet. August 20, 2008.
Media and Technology: From birth certificates to Bernie Mac, a look at the goofiest attacks against the presumptive Democratic nominee.

Medical Neglect in Immigrant Prisons Reveals America at Its Worst

By Kyle Hussein de Beausset, New America Media. August 19, 2008.
Rights and Liberties: A spate of detainee deaths begs the question: what have we become?

How Many More Iraqis Can You Throw Behind Bars Without Trial?

By Fatih Abdulsalam, Azzaman. August 19, 2008.
War on Iraq: Among the U.S.'s most vociferous criticisms of Saddam's regime was its practice of inhumane, summary arrests. Now it is guilty of the same.

Russia's Return Bites the Neocons' Grand Energy Scheme in the Ass

By James Howard Kunstler, Kunstler.com. August 19, 2008.
ForeignPolicy: You have to ask what were they smoking over at the Pentagon and the CIA when they thought they could control Russia's close neighbor.

New Signs Of A Middle-Class Collapse

By Isaiah J. Poole, Campaign for America's Future. August 18, 2008.
Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace: The case keeps getting stronger for a new, bold change in economic policy explicitly designed to help working-class families regain their footing.

Texas Planning to Execute Another Prisoner for a Murder He Didn't Commit

By Maura Kelly, Comment Is Free. August 15, 2008.
Rights and Liberties: Jeff Wood was sentenced to death under Texas' draconian Law of Parties for a murder that he did not plan or witness. He faces execution next week.

Self-Deportation Program Finds Few Takers

By Ruben Navarrette, Washington Post Writers Group. August 13, 2008.
Immigration: Is the government shocked that illegal immigrants aren't rushing to turn themselves in to federal authorities?

Should Barack Obama and Cindy McCain be in Jail?

By Johann Hari, Huffington Post. August 13, 2008.
Rights and Liberties: Under the twisted logic of the "war on drugs," the answer is yes, along with Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and nearly half of the U.S. population.

Flight Rage Incident Reveals the Dark Side of Osteen's 'Prosperity Gospel'

By Barbara Ehrenreich, Barbaraehrenreich.com. August 13, 2008.
Rights and Liberties: The wife of get-rich-now pastor Joel Osteen faces a civil trial that embodies the sense of entitlement of those who preach the gospel of prosperity.

Female Orgasm and the Need for a New Definition of Sex

By Shere Hite, On The Issues Magazine. August 12, 2008.
Sex and Relationships: Decades after the publication of the Hite Report on Female Sexuality, society still clings to outdated notions about women and sex.

End Psychologists' Role in State Torture

By Stephen Soldz, Boston Globe. August 12, 2008.
Rights and Liberties: Psychologists have become accomplices to torture. They owe it to their profession to oppose abuses, not participate in them.

If I Were a Betting Man, I'd Wager that Cheney Was Behind the Anthrax Attacks

By Mark Karlin, BuzzFlash. August 12, 2008.
You'd have to be a terribly cautious and willfully blind person not to think that the Bush Admin was capable of orchestrating the anthrax attacks.

Why We Should Stop Demonizing John Edwards

By Michael Bader, AlterNet. August 12, 2008.
Sex and Relationships: If the public wants to get to the bottom of Edwards' affair we have to drop the moral platitudes and look at what led him to it.

Olympics Expose the Total Hypocrisy of U.S. Immigration Laws

By Sally Kohn, Movement Vision Lab. August 11, 2008.
Immigration: Americans aren't known for their rational views on immigration. So it's no wonder we attack low-wage workers while celebrating immigrant athletes.

John Edwards' Ken Doll Lust

By Gail Collins, The New York Times. August 9, 2008.
Edwards blames "an egotism, a narcissism that leads you to believe that you can do whatever you want." We could have figured that ourselves.

Krugman: GOP Is the Party for Fools

By Paul Krugman, The New York Times. August 9, 2008.
Election 2008: Partisan politics are unlikely to end any time soon -- not as long as the GOP believes that when it comes to politics, idiocy is the best policy.

The Democratic Convention Platform Must Include Guaranteed Health Care for All

By Norman Solomon, AlterNet. August 8, 2008.
Health and Wellness: Health care as a human right? What a concept.

Watch Meet the Bloggers: With Anti-War Candidate Darcy Burner

By Cenk Uygur, Meet the Bloggers. August 8, 2008.
Election 2008: Host Cenk Uygur interviews anti-war candidate Darcy Burner and big-time progressive bloggers Matt Stoller, David Goldstein and Joan McCarter.

Immigrant Raids Must Stop

By Rep. Luis Gutierrez, Rep. Joe Baca, Chicago Tribune. August 7, 2008.
Immigration: Why do we treat those who work the longest hours at the most undesirable jobs like terrorists?

Immigration: No Match, No Justice

By Marissa Graciosa, Center for Community Change. August 5, 2008.
Immigration: The Bush Administration is forcing government contractors to verify the status of their work force with the flawed system.

A Guide to the Sleaziest (and Most Contradictory) Smears on the Dem Nominee

By Mister Leonard Pierce, AlterNet. August 5, 2008.
Media and Technology: The Right appears to be having trouble pegging a consistent narrative to use against Obama; we're here to help.

Sex in Crisis: How the Religious Right Is Trying to Ruin Sex for Everyone

By Dagmar Herzog, Perseus Books. August 4, 2008.
Sex and Relationships: The religious has right co-opted the language of feminism and the sexual revolution to try and make you feel bad about sex.

It's Time for Obama to Get Tough

By Glenn Hurowitz, Huffington Post. August 4, 2008.
Election 2008: Americans are angry. They want and need a president who can channel their frustration and fight hard for himself and the American people.

Unauthorized Immigrants Getting Railroad Justice in Flashy ICE Raids

By Kathleen Walker, New America Media. August 2, 2008.
Immigration: Suspected unauthorized immigrants are getting the shaft from the judicial system.

Bush's Fierce Global War of Denial

By Tom Engelhardt, Tomdispatch.com. August 2, 2008.
ForeignPolicy: The motto of the Bush administration might have been: Pay any price. Or, rather, make everyone else pay the price for us to remain in denial.

Hollywood: Not a Good Place for Women With Opinions

By Melissa Silverstein, Huffington Post. July 31, 2008.
Reproductive Justice and Gender: Katherine Heigl regularly speaks up about sexism in Hollywood. For that, she is labeled ungrateful and her career has been declared dead.

Obama and McCain Offer Two Very Different Kinds of Heroism

By Ira Chernus, AlterNet. July 30, 2008.
Election 2008: Conservative cultural critics have been lamenting the decline of heroism in America for years. Now Obama is challenging their narrative.

Swingtown: Opening the American Marriage

By Lauren Cahn, Huffington Post. July 28, 2008.
Sex and Relationships: It's nice to live in an era where sexual freedom means I don't have to feel that a night out with friends is incomplete without an orgy.

What Trans Erotica Gets Wrong

By Andrea Zanin, Sex Geek. July 24, 2008.
Sex and Relationships: There's a vast difference between eroticizing trans people and exoticizing them in ways that scream "I'm clueless and disrespectful."

Did Hollywood Execs Finally Get the Memo That Women Can Carry Movies?

By Marjorie Rosen, Women's eNews. July 21, 2008.
Reproductive Justice and Gender: A bountiful crop of summer movies starring women is outshining the usual male-driven action flicks. Let's hope studio heads get the message.

D.C. Is Drowning in a Sea of Campaign Cash

By Bill Moyers, Michael Winship, Bill Moyers Journal. July 21, 2008.
Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace: Follow the money -- it goes from your gas tank to the wine bars and steak houses of DC, where the payoffs from big business to politicians go down.

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