Don't Give African-Americans a Pass for Homophobia

Clay Cane, The Advocate

My great-great-grandmother was born a slave in Virginia. Should I not have the right to marry, just like my grandmother, simply because I am gay?

Beaten, Tortured and Sentenced 25-to-Life for Minor Drug Offense

Randy Credico, Huffington Post

DrugReporter: Enough is enough. It's time to repeal the Rockefeller Drug Laws, a 36-year failed experiment in racism, injustice and government waste.

I'm an American Worker and I'm Tired of Getting Screwed

Rick Kepler, TruthOut.org

Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace: The American worker doesn't want a handout. Never did. We do want a hand up from our government.

Is It Wrong to Talk About Michelle Obama's Body?

Tamura Lomax, RH Reality Check

Sex and Relationships: A recent Salon article declared 'First Lady Got Back.' Does the piece tap into racist assumptions about black women's sexuality?

Too Much Stuff: How Our Profligate Consumerism Might Keep Us in Iraq

Tom Engelhardt, Tomdispatch.com

Wherever we go, our "stuff" goes with us -- in such large quantities that removing it could prove more daunting than invading in the first place.

The Time Has Come to Create a Real 'Liberal Media'

Robert Parry, Consortium News

Media and Technology: Deep-pocketed conservatives have long dominated the media landscape. If we want real change, it's time for progressives to fight fire with fire.

Dingell Loses to Waxman, and Auto Stocks Dive -- Call it What It Is: Corruption

Joshua Holland, AlterNet

When the Big Three's best Rep. lost a key committee spot, their share prices dropped. That's not just business as usual, it's a sign of corruption.

America in Free Fall

Robert L. Borosage, Campaign for America's Future

Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace: Congress might adjourn without acting on the deepening economic crisis, leaving Obama to inherit the catastrophe.

Honeytrap Lies and Women Spies

Rosie White, American Sexuality Magazine

Movie Mix: Female spies have been the subject of cultural fascination since Mata Hari, but the realities they face are quite different from fiction.

Where Are the Female Arnold Schwarzeneggers?

Marie Cocco, Washington Post Writers Group

Reproductive Justice and Gender: Unlike Ah-nold, no woman will ever burst into high political office without a lick of experience. And women with credentials don't fare much better.

Bailout or Bust: How to Save the Big Three From Themselves

Titus Levi, Truthdig

Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace: Letting Detroit's ailing auto makers fall makes economic sense, but can we afford the social costs?

This Is Change? 20 Hawks, Clintonites and Neocons to Watch for in Obama's White House

Jeremy Scahill, AlterNet

ForeignPolicy: A who's who guide to the people poised to shape Obama's foreign policy.

Are Pentagon Nerds Developing Packs of Man-Hunting Killer Robots?

Scott Thill, AlterNet

Media and Technology: A dystopian sci-fi fantasy may soon be coming to fruition on a battlefield near you.

How Our Gutless Media Helped Trigger the Credit Crisis

Trudy Lieberman, Columbia Journalism Review

Government and greedy bankers aren't the only ones to blame.

The Bitch and the Airhead: Blatant Women-Bashing Makes a Gut-Wrenching Comeback

Daphne Merkin, The Daily Beast

Change may well be coming to Washington. But the public discourse about women has taken several steps backward.

Why We Shouldn't Bail Out GM

Nicholas von Hoffman, The Nation

Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace: The bailout should be used to expand unemployment compensation instead of propping up a single, failing corporation.

Did Greenhouse Gases Cause the Earth's Greatest Mass Extinction?

Moises Velasquez-Manoff, Christian Science Monitor

Environment: Scientists now suspect that the earth's greatest mass extinction wasn't caused by an asteroid strike or any other single cataclysmic event.

How to Stop the Looming Depression Without Lining Fat-Cat CEOs' Pockets

Mike Davis, Tomdispatch.com

We are now at a crash site, and our priority should be to save the victims. Here's how we do that.

It Is Going to Be a Wal-Mart Christmas

Marie Cocco, Washington Post Writers Group

Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace: Wal-Mart is the only store where hard-squeezed consumers can afford anything, and so it keeps posting big profits amid the retail bloodbath.

End of the Road: Is the Auto Industry Dead?

Mark Brenner, Jane Slaughter, Labor Notes

Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace: With U.S. car makers billions of dollars in the red, jobs vanishing and factories closing, the industry's problems may be insurmountable.

How Lieberman Kept His Post: "The Meeting Was Political Theater"

Sam Stein, Huffington Post

By the time Lieberman's future came to a vote, the result was preordained.

Thin Is the New Miserable

Stephanie Losee, AlterNet

Reproductive Justice and Gender: A new book from Valerie Frankel shows how the only lasting effect dieting has is on people's mind-sets about their bodies.

Keep it Simple: Stop the Foreclosure Crisis with the Right to Rent

Dean Baker, TruthOut.org

Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace: There are a lot of complicated plans being discussed, but sometimes the simplest solution to a problem is best.

Make That Former Senator Ted Stevens

John Nichols, TheNation.com

Democrat Mark Begich unseats Stevens in Alaska, bringing Dems one step closer to a filibuster-proof Senate.

Naomi Klein: The Borderline Illegal Deals Behind the $700 Billion Bailout

Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!

Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace: The bailout is a parting gift to the people that George Bush once referred to jokingly as "my base."

Priority #1 for Working America -- Make It Easier to Unionize

Steven Greenhouse, The New York Times

Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace: Huge union campaign will hopefully counterbalance "corporate power and reverse the decline of the middle class."

Vancouver's Radical Approach to Drugs: Let Junkies Be Junkies

Vince Beiser, Miller-McCune Magazine

DrugReporter: Welcome to North America's only officially sanctioned "supervised injection site."

Dems' Big Risk: Lieberman Keeps Chairmanship, Caucus Membership

John Nichols, TheNation.com

Senate Democrats opted not to punish Joe Lieberman for backing John McCain. Will the risk pay off?

Why Prop 8 Passed in California: The Myth of the Black/Gay Divide

Sherry Wolf, CounterPunch

Election 2008: Institutionalized homophobia in American society is definitely a white monopoly.

Having a 'Better' Economist in Obama's Treasury Won't Cut It

Rebekah and Stephen Hren, Huffington Post

Democracy and Elections: We must restructure our economy from a foundation built on consumption to regeneration and maintenance.

2008 Results: Fewer White Voters, While Minorities Set Records

Steven Rosenfeld, AlterNet

Democracy and Elections: A preliminary study of 2008 results finds more than a million fewer white voters than in 2004 and nearly 7 million new minority voters.