Pregnancy Pact Myth Refuses to Die

Amanda Marcotte, Pandagon

PEEK: Social conservatives refuse to give up on titillating conspiracy theory.

The World Health Organization Documents Failure of U.S. Drug Policies

Bruce Mirken, AlterNet

DrugReporter: WHO survey of 17 countries finds that we have the highest rates of marijuana and cocaine use.

Surviving a Weekend with America's Premiere Pro-White Activist Group

Gabriel Thompson, AlterNet

Immigration: Meet the Council of Conservative Citizens -- a group that offers a biblical defense of slavery and laments the surivival of African babies.

Google: Good or Evil When It Comes to the Environment?

Scott Thill, AlterNet

Environment: Google's motto is "Don't be evil." But when it comes to its environmental impact, some think the company can't live up to its own hype.

Why Can't Women Sleep?

Gayle Greene, Ms. Magazine

Reproductive Justice and Gender: And why is the high level of insomnia among women ignored by researchers?

Hitchens Gets Waterboarded, Withdraws from Iraq in 11 Seconds

John Dolan, AlterNet

Rights and Liberties: Warmongerer and neocon Christopher Hitchens just noticed that waterboarding is torture!

Christian Nation: Bush Moves Big Bucks to Religious Organizations

Frederick Lane, Beacon Press

Even worse, Bush wants to ensure that faith-based organizations receiving federal funds can discriminate in their hiring on the basis of religion.

The Intolerant States of America -- Why My Middle Name Is Now 'Hussein'

Kyle de Beausset, AlterNet

Immigration: Intolerance isn't just popular among the ignorant. It is within every one of us.

It's About Time for Online Voting

Allison H. Fine, Personal Democracy Forum

Media and Technology: Historians will undoubtedly consider our current era of voting machines the technological equivalent of the 8-track tape machine.

World Yawns at McCain's Coalition of Democracies

Melinda Brouwer, AlterNet

ForeignPolicy: Creating a "League of Democracies" is a central tenet of John McCain's foreign policy "vision," but in other democracies, the idea's a non-starter.

Ignorant America: Just How Stupid Are We?

Rick Shenkman, Tomdispatch.com

Democracy and Elections: Millions of Americans are embarrassingly ill-informed and they do not care that they are.

Bringing Ireland to Baghdad: How the Resistance Will Eventually Kick the Americans Out

Gary Brecher, AlterNet

War on Iraq: One thing the United States doesn't get about guerrilla warfare: It's not over until the guerrillas win.

Seeking the Hairless Porn Star Ideal

Heather Wood, Sirens Magazine

Sex and Relationships: The temptations and hype surrounding the Brazilian wax turn into a case of buyer's remorse for this author.

Inside Obama's Christian Crusade

Max Blumenthal, TheNation.com

Election 2008: Obama has made a major effort to woo evangelicals, but at what cost to church-state separation?

Republican Campaign Against Likely Democratic Voters Begins

Steven Rosenfeld, AlterNet

Democracy and Elections: The GOP’s latest accusations are long on rhetoric but short on facts.

Is a Big Hunk of Steak Worth Almost 2,000 Gallons of Water?

Collin Dunn, Huffington Post

Water: Sometimes the kick we need to green our lives is a hard look at the numbers.

Exercising Ballot Power to Push Back Attacks on Immigrant Communities

Jackie Mahendra, AlterNet

Immigration: The message has never been clearer: Become a citizen and then vote… before it’s too late.

The 10 Most Awesomely Bad Moments of the Bush Presidency

Brad Reed, AlterNet

Election 2008: A shorter version of our long national nightmare.

Sy Hersh: Congress Is Funding Major Escalation in Secret Operations Against Iran

Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!

ForeignPolicy: Hersh reports on a secret Congress-approved plan for activities ranging from supporting dissident groups to spying on Iran's nuclear program.

The Strange Journey of Larry Johnson

David Weigel, The American Prospect

The former CIA officer has morphed from defender of Valerie Plame to crazed purveyor of a debunked Michelle Obama rumor. What happened?

McCain the Reformer? You've Got to Be Joking

Ari Berman, The Nation

Election 2008: The level of John McCain's ties to lobbyists has reached dizzying proportions.

Fighting Against Radio's Hate-Spreading Shock Jocks

AlterNet Books

Media and Technology: Right-wing radio shock jocks are filling the airwaves with racist and sexist hate speech. Our new book takes the issue head on. With video.

Revisiting the Execution of Willie Francis: Race, Murder and the Search for Justice

Eleanor J. Bader, Public Eye

Rights and Liberties: It took two trips to the electric chair to kill murder suspect Francis, whose unfair trial catapulted racial justice into public consciousness.

Global Warming's Twin Evil: Wildfires and Drought

Dr. Reese Halter, AlterNet

Water: The 850 fires burning in California alone should be a wake up call that we're unprepared for rapid climate change.

U.S. Continues to Brutalize Iraqis in the Cause of the 'Surge'

Tom Engelhardt, Tomdispatch.com

War on Iraq: Five years after the invasion, to speak of this urge to surge and its results as "success" or as "good news" is essentially obscene.

Pretending That Bush is Not a Tyrant

Robert Parry, Consortium News

Rights and Liberties: If you listen to Bush's legal advisors, questions about the limits of his authority might not be hypothetical anymore.

The 'Mortgage Meltdown' Was No Accident

Kai Wright, The Nation

Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace: How the mortgage industry stole black America's hard-won wealth.

Obama Supporters Organize to Protest Candidate's Stance on Spying

Ari Melber,

PEEK: Concerned netizens taking the fight to campaign's official website.

10 Things You Should Know About McCain Advisor Charlie Black

Jon Ponder, Pensito Review

Election 2008: Black was an early innovator of the GOP attack machine, and a very successful lobbyist and political strategist in the Reagan and Bush eras.

Women Have the Voting Power to Control This Election

Martha Burk, Ms. Magazine

Reproductive Justice and Gender: The economy, war, the health care crisis and tax policies all affect women differently than men. And women have the power to change them all.

How Long Does Drug Prohibition Need to Continue Before It's Declared a Failure?

David Borden, Drug War Chronicle

DrugReporter: The day we legalize drugs is the day we can begin to clean up the mess that the drug prohibition experiment has created.

In Egypt, "Prostitute" Is a Slippery Term

L.L. Wynn, American Sexuality Magazine

Sex and Relationships: In Egypt the label "prostitute" is often applied to women who defy traditional social and sexual codes of conduct.