ALEC Talking Points: Duck the Tough Questions!
WASHINGTON -- When the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) first started facing public scrutiny about its extraordinary ability to turn "mode...
WASHINGTON -- When the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) first started facing public scrutiny about its extraordinary ability to turn "mode...
Jason Salzman | Posted 05.02.2012
You hear the Marxist card thrown around so much these days on conservative talk radio that it's become standard fare.
Daniel Gross | Posted 04.23.2012
When exposed to the light, the NRA's agenda becomes toxic. And Americans want nothing to do with those who conspire to bring about the gun lobby's dangerous "guns everywhere" vision they saw played out that February night in Sanford, Florida.
Elliott Negin | Posted 04.20.2012
With ALEC in the spotlight, what has still gone unmentioned is its longtime stealth campaign to scuttle state -- and federal -- climate change initiatives, despite the fact that a number of its corporate members publicly acknowledge that global warming is a serious problem.
Robert Greenwald and Jesse Lava | Posted 04.17.2012
Charles and David Koch appear to be pushing their right-wing ideology to the bitter end. And it's time for Americans to stop helping them. The Koch b...
The New York Times | Paul Krugman | Posted 03.26.2012
Florida’s now-infamous Stand Your Ground law, which lets you shoot someone you consider threatening without facing arrest, let alone prosecution, so...
Wendy Block | Posted 02.08.2012
Hey Stephen Colbert. There's an existential challenge to your shadowy Colbert Super PAC S.H.H. and I've been trying to give you a heads up. But you're not making it easy.
Kert Davies | Posted 01.01.2012
"People and Power" on Al Jazeera has been working for months on the Koch Brothers expose. It premiered last night and is the best TV story of the Kochs thus far.
G.W. Schulz | Posted 05.25.2011
A little-known company that specializes in protecting the public image of Fortune 500 companies is quietly buying up hundreds of domain names that could be used to host online criticism of Bank of America.
Wendy Block | Posted 05.25.2011
Thanks to my work last year on the Huffington Post's citizen journalism unit, I stumped an opponent of Proposition 15, the California Fair Elections Act (CFEA).
Jeremy Scahill | Posted 05.25.2011
Independent journalists have tried to shine a spotlight on how groups like the Center for American Progress and MoveOn are now supporting the continuation of wars because their guy is now commander-in-chief.
HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 05.14.2012