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Now Let's Talk About Populism for Real

By Ruth Rosen, Truthdig. July 5, 2008.
Democracy and Elections: A new book explores the real populist vision that lies behind the shallow rhetoric to which we've been subjected during this election year.

Christian Nation: Bush Moves Big Bucks to Religious Organizations

By Frederick Lane, Beacon Press. July 3, 2008.
Even worse, Bush wants to ensure that faith-based organizations receiving federal funds can discriminate in their hiring on the basis of religion.

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

By Eleanor J. Bader, Public Eye. July 1, 2008.
Reproductive Justice and Gender: It took two trips to the electric chair to kill murder suspect Francis, whose unfair trial catapulted racial justice into public consciousness.

Party Crashing: How the Facebook Generation Does Politics

By Courtney E. Martin, AlterNet. June 26, 2008.
Election 2008: Author Keli Goff on how today's youth -- black youth in particular -- choose their leaders. Hint: It's not by skin color or party affiliation.

What Happens When a School Board of Religious Zealots Will 'Lie for Jesus'?

By Onnesha Roychoudhuri, AlterNet. June 20, 2008.
Media and Technology: Lauri Lebo, author of Devil in Dover, gives an insider's account of a historic court battle about dogma and Darwin in small-town America.

Is Congress the Problem with Health Care?

By Ezra Klein, The American Prospect. June 20, 2008.
Health and Wellness: Tom Daschle thinks so. The former Senate minority leader and author of the new book, Critical, explains why.

Iraq in Pictures

By Robert Fisk, Independent UK. June 19, 2008.
War on Iraq: The dangerous face of ordinary life has been captured by Iraqis on their cell phones.

Can the U.S. Thrive as Other Powers Rise?

By Terrence McNally, AlterNet. June 18, 2008.
ForeignPolicy: Author Nina Hachigian shows that some of the biggest threats to our security don't come from rival nations. They come from us.

What's the Best Way to Be Earth-Friendly? Meet the Guy with the Answers

By Bob Schildgen, Sierra Club Books. June 16, 2008.
Environment: Mr. Green -- the Sierra Club green living guru has a new book that may be have the answers you've been looking for.

The Family's Values: America's Most Influential (and Secretive) Religious Organization

By ZP Heller, AlterNet. June 16, 2008.
Rights and Liberties: Jeff Sharlet's The Family will leave you stunned by the religious motivations behind seemingly every political decision in the last 70 years.

Zapped! How Irradiation Is Threatening Our Food System

By Wenonah Hauter, Food & Water Watch. June 13, 2008.
Environment: Lab animals fed irradiated food have developed illnesses from cancer to immune system failure. So why is the government pushing the same food on you?

Flunk the Electoral College: Getting Rid of the Exploding Cigar of American Politics

By Michael Waldman, Brennan Center for Justice. June 12, 2008.
Rights and Liberties: The Electoral College is an affront to basic democracy, warping competition and subverting political equality -- even when it works.

Boots on the Ground by Dusk: My Tribute to Pat Tillman

By Mary Tillman, Rodale Inc. June 12, 2008.
War on Iraq: Mary Tillman writes about when her family first began hearing conflicting details of the Army's account of her son Pat's death.

Worse Than Fascists: Christian Political Group 'The Family' Openly Reveres Hitler

By Lindsay Beyerstein, AlterNet. June 12, 2008.
Rights and Liberties: In his new book, The Family, author Jeff Sharlet reveals sordid details about this power-hungry, inside-the-Beltway fundamentalist group.

Soldiers: Know Your Rights!

By Jonathan Hutto, Sr., The Nation Institute. June 11, 2008.
Rights and Liberties: What every soldier should know before resisting.

Population: What to Do When There Are Too Many of Us

By Robert Engelman, Island Press. June 10, 2008.
Reproductive Justice and Gender: The author of "More: Population, Nature, and What Women Want" writes that we can tackle a population-induced environmental crisis by empowering women.

What Kind of Adulterer Are You?

By Andy McSmith, Independent UK. June 10, 2008.
Sex and Relationships: There are 17 reasons people cheat, Mira Kirshenbaum says in her book "When Good People Have Affairs," and they're not all selfish or immoral.

Dispatches from the Workplace: the Big Squeeze

By Kim Bobo, Religion Dispatches. June 9, 2008.
Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace: Steven Greenhouse's new book charts the growing economic pain faced by the middle class.

Women and the New Economic Revolution

By Avivah Wittenberg-Cox, Alison Maitland, Jossey-Bass/Wiley. June 9, 2008.
Reproductive Justice and Gender: Women have entered the workforce in unprecedented numbers over the past 30 years. How is business adapting?

Squeezing the American Dream: Workers Face Diminishing Returns

By Nicholas von Hoffman, Truthdig. June 9, 2008.
Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace: A new book on plight of white-collar and blue-collar workers lays bare how the American dream is now out of the reach of tens of millions.

How Important Is a Fair Election in November? How Important Is AlterNet to You?

By Don Hazen, AlterNet. June 9, 2008.
Democracy and Elections: AlterNet is stepping up to help make sure elections are fair and all votes are counted in November. But we need your help.

Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World's Food System

By Raj Patel, Melville House Publishing. June 2, 2008.
Health and Wellness: Hunger and obesity stem from the same problem -- the corporations that sell our food determine what we eat and how we think about food.

Apocalypse in the Oceans

By Anneli Rufus, AlterNet. May 30, 2008.
Water: With 150 dead zones in our oceans, some the size of Ireland, author Taras Grescoe argues that there's been a massive die out of sea life.

'Sharp Teeth': A Ferociously Good Read

By Vivian Dent, AlterNet. May 29, 2008.
Media and Technology: Author Toby Barlow's epic poem about werewolves in Los Angeles is a page-turner with insights and imagery that will resonate long after you read it.

Sick Planet: Our Obsession with Dieting Boosts the Economy But Destroys the Earth

By Stan Cox, Pluto Press. May 28, 2008.
Health and Wellness: Our obsession with dieting, including the low-carb Atkins fad, may be good for our economy but it's a nightmare for the environment and our health.

The Courage of Rachel Corrie

By Amy Wilentz, Truthdig. May 26, 2008.
Rights and Liberties: The journals of protester Rachel Corrie, killed by an Israeli bulldozer in Palestine, reveal her untimely death all the more tragic.

Martin Amis & Chris Hitchens: Vicious Racism Concealed by a British Accent

By John Dolan, AlterNet. May 24, 2008.
Media and Technology: The American right wing, desperate for articulate hate mongers, is importing UK polemicists to stir the base up against the Muslim/Arab "enemy."

The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder

By Vincent Bugliosi, Vanguard Press. May 24, 2008.
Rights and Liberties: Why do so many in the liberal media simply move on to another topic after stating that Bush took the nation to war based on a lie?

The Most Savage Shock Jock of Them All

By Rory O'Connor, Aaron Cutler, AlterNet Books. May 23, 2008.
Media and Technology: An excerpt from AlterNet's newest book, Shock Jocks: Hate Speech & Talk Radio.

Right Is Wrong -- How the Lunatic Fringe Hijacked America

By Arianna Huffington, Knopf Publishing. May 22, 2008.
The GOP is now a dark, putrefied party of Bush, Cheney, Rove, Limbaugh and Coulter. And we're all the worse because of it.

'Opting In' to Progressive Parenthood: A Personal Challenge to Modern Mothers

By Courtney E. Martin, AlterNet. May 21, 2008.
Reproductive Justice and Gender: Author Amy Richards explains how to close the gap between feminist ideology and our daily lives.

Bottlemania: How Water Went on Sale and Why We Bought It

By Elizabeth Royte, Bloomsbury USA. May 20, 2008.
Water: Elizabeth Royte's new book explains why bottled water is one of the greatest marketing coups of the 20th and 21st centuries.

Inverted Totalitarianism: A New Way of Understanding How the U.S. Is Controlled

By Chalmers Johnson, Truthdig. May 19, 2008.
Democracy and Elections: A new book offers a controversial but ultimately convincing diagnosis of how the U.S. has succumbed to an unacknowledged totalitarian temptation.

What Michael Pollan Hasn't Told You About Food

By Onnesha Roychoudhuri, AlterNet. May 15, 2008.
Health and Wellness: As both obesity and hunger are on the rise, a new book shows why we shouldn't feel guilty about our food choices but angry with a corrupt food system.

How We Lost Knowledge of Where Food Comes from and Why We Need to Get It Back

By Ann Vileisis, Island Press. May 14, 2008.
Environment: A new book explores how we got into the modern situation where we know so little about what we eat and yet regard it as entirely normal.

Nixon's Savage Attack on the Greatest Anti-War Movement in U.S. History

By Rick Perlstein, AlterNet. May 12, 2008.
ForeignPolicy: As millions of Americans came together to fight the war in Vietnam, Nixon's politics became more ruthless.

Our Media Have Been So Wrong for So Long

By Jayne Lyn Stahl, AlterNet. May 9, 2008.
War on Iraq: In his new book, E&P editor Greg Mitchell offers a stinging indictment of the media's complicity with Washington's war-marketing machine.

Sexless in the City: A Frigid Evangelical Can't Find Love in the Big Apple

By Hadley Suter, AlterNet. May 3, 2008.
Sex and Relationships: Author Anna Broadway shares her odd tale about the men who wander in and out of her life -- but never into her bed.

Artificial Foods and Corporate Crops: Can We Escape the 'Frankenstate'?

By Claire Hope Cummings, Beacon Press. May 2, 2008.
Environment: Taking a technological approach to agriculture has put the future of the world's food supply in jeopardy.

Our Political Leaders Are to Blame in World Water Crisis

By Maude Barlow, The New Press. April 24, 2008.
Water: As Barlow's new book shows, the world does not lack the knowledge about how to build a water-secure future; it lacks the political will.

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