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Adele M. Stan is a journalist and editor. A contributor to The American Prospect Online and Guardian America's Comment Is Free site, Stan's work has also appeared in The New Republic, the Village Voice, The Nation, The Advocate, Salon.com, the Washington Blade and Mother Jones magazine, as well as on the op-ed pages of the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Chronicle and the New York Daily News. She began her media career at Ms. magazine, where she served both on staff and as a contributing editor.

Along the way, Stan developed expertise in covering the intersection of religion and politics, in addition to lifelong specialties in women's issues and pop culture. Her Mother Jones cover story on the religious right is considered by many to be a definitive primer on the movement; a special 10,000-copy reprint sold out its print run.

Those who graduated college with women's studies majors are familiar with Stan's book, Debating Sexual Correctness, in which the author details the porn wars, date rape controversy and theory on sexual harassment that helped define the modern feminist movement.

Stan has also served as a contributing writer to Mother Jones, and Washington correspondent for Working Woman.

Outside of the office, Stan indulges an array of interests, with music taking center stage. She is in the midst of planning a second career as a lounge-singing ukulele-player.

Blog Entries by Adele Stan

LGBT Activists Criticize Obama's Speech for What Wasn't There, But Miss a Very Big Thing That Was

4 Comments | Posted October 12, 2009 | 05:37 PM (EST)


If you needed evidence that the community of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people is not monolithic in its politics, reaction to President Obama's speech to the annual Human Rights Campaign dinner offers plenty. But in their criticism of the president's remarks as "been there, done that," LGBT critics...

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Religious Right Tells Followers: Tone Down the Racism

11 Comments | Posted September 22, 2009 | 08:53 AM (EST)


At this weekend's Values Voter summit, religious right leaders, who have long played to racial resentment, seem alarmed at how the overt racism of some of the Tea Partiers could harm their own movement -- decades in the making -- of politicized Christian evangelicals and conservative Catholics.

It was a...

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912 March: The Tea Party Movement Is the New Religious Right

4 Comments | Posted September 14, 2009 | 10:29 AM (EST)


The men behind the religious right make a comeback with the Tea Party movement.

Glenn Beck will tell you that this weekend's march of right-wing activists on Washington was six months in the making.

Don't believe a word of it. Try 40 years.

As disgruntled white taxpayers joined conspiracy...

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Fox News Teamed with Big Biz Astroturf Group to Force Out Van Jones

145 Comments | Posted September 8, 2009 | 08:47 AM (EST)


If you thought the targeting of Van Jones for vilification by the Right was about his race, his youthful flirtation with socialism, or a petition he signed about the 9/11 attacks, you'd only be a little bit right. And if you think it was about the Color of Change...

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Forget Glenn Beck: The Problem is Murdoch

360 Comments | Posted August 20, 2009 | 09:18 AM (EST)


Color of Change has done a remarkable thing: it has moved a host of major advertisers on the Fox News Channel's Glenn Beck show to withdraw their advertising from the program.

The catalyst was Beck's diatribes against President Obama -- calling him racist, and claiming that the president...

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Washington Post Joins Corporate Media Campaign to Spread the Hate

37 Comments | Posted August 2, 2009 | 02:40 PM (EST)


By now, you're likely familiar with the parade of racists, sexists, conspiracy theorists and hatemongers on the payrolls of mainstream media: CNN's Lou Dobbs advances the claims of unhinged birthers; FOX's Glenn Beck calls the president a racist; MSNBC pays as an analyst Pat Buchanan, who says...

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Women Reporters Ask the Best Questions

18 Comments | Posted July 24, 2009 | 04:22 PM (EST)


At Wednesday's press conference, President Obama called on only three women out of the 10 reporters from whom he took questions. The answer to every question asked by a woman made news, with Lynn Sweet's end-with-a-bang query on the arrest of Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., winning the night...

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Stop the Sexist Rants on Palin!

389 Comments | Posted July 6, 2009 | 02:48 PM (EST)


UPDATE: Jenn Pozner has a great analysis of the media's treatment of Palin at NPR.

UPDATE:At Writes Like She Talks, Jill Miller Zimon is on the #PalinSexism watch.

The ascent of Sarah Palin to the national political stage has yielded no shortage of material for legitimate criticism --...

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Sarah Palin Will Be Back

336 Comments | Posted July 3, 2009 | 05:41 PM (EST)


There's nothing surprising in Sarah Palin's decision not to run for re-election as governor of Alaska. After all, if you've got a shot to become leader of the free world, it helps to have nothing but time to give the people of Iowa and New Hampshire in the year leading...

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Michelle Pfeiffer Dazzles in Cherie

1 Comments | Posted June 25, 2009 | 08:37 PM (EST)


From the opening frames of Chérie, the viewer is drawn into an opulent, decadent world, at once foreign and familiar to those who have mixed with the denizens of high society in our own time. But the depiction of that world in director Stephen Frears' tour de force is no...

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Tiller Murder: Ann Coulter's Happy Day?

12 Comments | Posted May 31, 2009 | 04:51 PM (EST)


The killing of Dr. George Tiller, who provided abortion services to women with the hardest cases, will likely be attributed to some lone and deranged individual, acting on his own. Indeed, Operation Rescue, the hold-no-prisoners anti-abortion group, issued an immediate statement from Operation Rescue President Troy Newman, decrying...

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Sotomayor Nomination: Obama's Wedge Politics

109 Comments | Posted May 26, 2009 | 11:00 AM (EST)


President Obama's nomination of Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme Court is stunning on many levels: She's the third woman to serve on the high court, the first of Latino descent and the first to grow up in public housing.

On her own merits, Sotomayor is a deserving nominee. Yet...

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Charlie Crist: Bad News for the GOP?

4 Comments | Posted May 21, 2009 | 04:06 PM (EST)


Is Charlie Crist the face of a new Republican Party, or a harbinger of the GOP's demise?

He's handsome, personable and popular: a dream candidate for Florida's 2010 Senate race. And Charlie Crist, currently the Sunshine State's Republican governor, will probably win. That makes him a good thing for the...

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O'Reilly and Barbara Walters: A Very Limited View

Posted March 30, 2009 | 12:23 PM (EST)


One would think that with four women co-hosts, Bill O'Reilly would have been put to the test in today's appearance on "The View" (ABC), given his producer's stalking of blogger Amanda Terkel and the uproar that has followed. But not one question was asked about the Terkel stalking,...

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Bill O'Reilly's Woman Problem

Posted March 24, 2009 | 10:14 AM (EST)


UPDATE:

I have confirmed with blogger Amanda Terkel that no one at "The O'Reilly Factor" ever tried to book her for a proper, in-studio interview prior to sending out Bill-O's stalker squad to trail her on a two-hour drive for the purpose of ambushing her with a video camera on...

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God Wins Big At Academy Awards

Posted February 23, 2009 | 03:50 AM (EST)


At last night's Academy Awards America met the God to whom many progressives pray--the God who is justice and love.

Anyone who believes that all of God's children are created in God's image is likely celebrating the acceptance speeches of both Sean Penn, who won Best Actor for his portrayal...

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Name DeLauro to Health and Human Services!

Posted February 6, 2009 | 05:44 PM (EST)


"THIS IS WHAT A FEMINIST LOOKS LIKE," shouts the tee shirt worn by an illustrated Barack Obama on the cover of the current issue of Ms. magazine. Gosh, I sure hope so. But signals from the White House are coming a bit mixed in these first two weeks of...

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Transcendental Invocation: Surprise Me, Rick Warren!

Posted December 29, 2008 | 06:28 PM (EST)


Nearly two weeks after Barack Obama stunned his most passionate supporters by announcing his choice of Rev. Rick Warren to make the invocation at Obama's inauguration, you'd expect the thing to have blown over. That it has not says as much about the American people as does our election...

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Four Generations, Bad Music and Good Food

Posted November 27, 2008 | 12:48 AM (EST)


On Thanksgiving Day, four generations of my family will gather at my parents' home to consume a meal largely beige in color, and devoid of anything green (save for the peas that come, frozen, in a bag with the little white onions).

"I was going to put out celery...

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Palin on Today: Not Goin' Anywhere

Posted November 11, 2008 | 10:22 AM (EST)


There a lot of things one can say about Sarah Palin, but this one cannot be disputed: by one measure, at least, she is true to her word. Sarah Palin is not going anywhere.

That, you'll recall, is what the Alaska governor and former vice presidential candidate...

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