2011

• The Tea Party Propaganda Factory You Probably Don’t Know About, AlterNet, April 20, 2011.

• TV Wars, Filmmaker Magazine, Spring 2011.

• Salons:  A New Intellectual Culture is Taking Shape Throughout the Country, AlterNet, May 8, 2011.
• Its Time to Break Up AT&T, Verizon, Comcast, TimeWarner and the Rest of the Telecoms,AlterNet, May 11, 2011.

• The Big Squeeze, AlterNet, May 19, 2011.

• Points of Moral Friction:  When Classes Confront Each Other, Brooklyn Rail, May  2011.

• Arnold’s Decade of Deceit:  Schwarzenegger’s Sexcapades and the Plight of the GOP, CounterPunch, May 27-29, 2011.

• AT&T  and T-Mobile Edge Closer to Merger, What’s In It For Customers?, Very Little, AlterNet, June 9, 201

• Pessimism, USA: Living While Holding Your Breath. CounterPunch, June 10-12, 2011.
• Weiner Roast: The Politics of Narcissism. CounterPunch, June 15, 2011.
• The Secret $8 Billion Wireless Scam:  How AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon Game the System, AlterNet, June 20, 2011.

• Shill R Us:  Organizations That Get AT&T Cash Endorse its Mega-Merger with T-Mobile, AlterNet, June 22, 2011.

• America’s Tahrir Square: The Lessons of the Bonus Army. CounterPunch, June 24-26, 2011.
• The Smart Phone Con Job:  Your So-Called 4G Phone Isn’t What Its Cracked Up to Be. AlterNet, June 30, 2011.
• AIDS at 30: Things Will Likely Get Worse for the Most Vulnerable. CounterPunch, July 8-10, 2011.
• Questions Plague Bachman:  Playing the New Political Shell Game.  ANDmagazine, July 2011.
• Remembering the Bonus Army: Where Are Today’s Mass Nonviolent Protests? AlterNet, July 27, 2011.

• The Pledge Plague:  The Cheap Price of Virtue.  ANDmagazine, July 2011.

• Praying for Votes:  The New Way to Buy an Election.  CounterPunch, August 8-10, 2011.

• One Nation, Under God:  The World According to Pastor Rich.  CounterPunch, August 19-20, 2011.

• Christian Theocrats Stealth Plan to Seize Power.ANDmgazine, August 2011,

• Drugged Out America: The Failed War on Drugs.  CounterPunch.  September 2, 2011 .
• The Politics of Fashion. ANDmagazine,  September  2011. 
• Least We Forget: Illegal Arrests During Period of National Crisis.  CounterPunch, September 10-11, 2011.

• Decline or Restructuring?: Welcome to the Post-Modern Gilded Age.  CounterPunch.  September 17-18, 2011.
• 5 Takeaways from the IPF’s Independent Film Market.  DocumentaryTelevision, September 25,  2011.
• American Vengeance:  The Roots of Social Terror.  CounterPunch,  September 30-October 1, 2011.
• The 1920s:  The Good Times?,  The Brooklyn Rail,  October 2011.
• Are You What You Wear?:  The Politics of Fashion,  The Brooklyn Rail,  October 2011.
• The Great Fear is Democracy:  Will Bloomburg Pull the Plug on Occupy Wall Street?  CounterPunch,  October 7-9, 2011.
• “End Regulation Now”:  Dreaming the Tea Party Nightmare,  CounterPunch,  October 28-30, 2011.
• The Politics of Obesity: The Fattening of the Nation.  CounterPunch,  October 28-30, 2011.
• America’s Illegal Drug Complex:  Another Capitalist Racket.  CounterPunch,  November 11-13, 2011.
• The Telecom Scam: 5 Behemoths That Strangle Innovation and Ensure You Pay Two Much for Bad Service,  AlterNet.  November 11 , 2011.
• The Telecom Scam: 5 Behemoths That Strangle Innovation and Ensure You Pay Two Much for Bad Service,  AlterNet.  November 11 , 2011.
• Sex, Scandals & Cover-Ups:  Waiting for the Second Shoe to Fall.  CounterPunch,  November 15, 2011.
• Occupy Telecom, Occupy the FCC:  How the Communications Trust is Harming America’s Future.  AlterNet,  November 18, 2011.
• How I Got Scammed:  A Schmuck is Born Everyday.   CounterPunch,  December 2-4, 2011.
• The Gathering Storm: Austerity & Social Unrest.  CounterPunch,  December 9-10, 2011.
• State Crime & Villainy:  Eugenics in America.  CounterPunch,  December 16-18, 2011.
• Shame of the Nation:  Sexual Violence in America.  CounterPunch,  December 23-25, 2011.
• Social Television Summit: Five Takeaways for Factual TV,  December 28, 2011.
• Are You Being Tracked?:  8 Ways Your Privacy is Being Eroded Online and Off.  AlterNet,  December 28, 2011.

• Lust Murder: Prostitutes as Victims of Throwaway Capitalism, CounterPunch, April 15-17, 2011.
• A New Dark Ages:  Sexual Health and the Republican Counter-Revolution, CounterPunch, April 8-10, 2011.

• Cyber Wars 2.0, Brooklyn Rail, April 2011.

• How Politicians Are Using 911 Emergency Services to Scam Millions of Consumers, with Bruce Kushnick, AlterNet, March 5, 2011.

• The Party’s Over: Welcome to the “New Normal,” Brooklyn Rail, March 2011.
• Condoms and Skins: America’s Changing Sexual Appetites, CounterPunch, February 25-26, 2011.

• How Does the Drug Industry Get Away with Broadcasting Those Deceptive Ads?, AlterNet, February 23, 2011

• Notorious Pro-Corporate Group ALEC’s Hidden Role in Stoking Class War in Wisconsin and the Rest of America, AlterNet, February 22, 2011.

• Celebrating Presidents’ Day: Two Centuries of Presidential Sex Scandals, CounterPunch, February 21, 2011.

• The Outrageous Ways Your Phone Company May Be Stealing from You, with Bruce Kushnick, AlterNet, February 9, 2011.

• Bottoms-Up American History; book review of  Thaddeus Russell’s A Renegade History of the United States, Brooklyn Rail, February 2011.
• America’s Moral Crisis:  The Return to Social Darwinism, CounterPunch, January 28-30, 2011.

• Will Only Another Great Depression Save America?, AlterNet, January 20, 2011.

• The Myth of American Primacy: Just How Exceptional is the US?, CounterPunch, January 7-9, 2011.
• How AT&T, Verizon and the Telecom Giants Have Captured the Regulator Supposed to Control Them, with Bruce Kushnick, AlterNet, January 8, 2011.


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• December 2011: You Should be Paranoid
• December 2011: Your TV Future
• December 2011: The Shell Game
• November 2011: The IP Wars
• November 2011: Is Net Neutrality Dead?
• November 2011: The AT&T Merger Update
• October 2011:  The IFP Market
• September 2011:Remembering 9/11
• August 2011:  The Big Squeeze

2010

• Sinner Men: The Rehabilitation of the Sex Sinner, CounterPunch, February 18, 2010.
• The New Morality Police:  The Crisis in America’s Telecommunications Network, CounterPunch, March 12-14, 2010.
• Network Failure: The Crisis in America’s Telecommunications Network, CounterPunch, March 12-14, 2010.
• The Third Front: Sexual Assault in the U.S. Military, CounterPunch, March 19-21, 2010.
• The GOP in Freewill?:  They Don’t Call It the Grand Old Party for Nothing, CounterPunch, March 31, 2010.
• Globalizing the Culture Wars: Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill, CounterPunch, April 2, 2010.
• Selective Journalism?: The New York Times vs. the Pope, CounterPunch, April 16, 2010.
• Obama’s Rwanda?:  Halt the Slaughter in the Congo Now, No Apologies Later, CounterPunch, May 2, 2010.
• Come Out George, Come Out!: Scandal Again Rocks the Christian Right, AlterNet, May 9, 2010.
• The Great Telecom Rip-Off:  Or Why Aunt Ethel Hung-up on AT&T, CounterPunch, May 28, 2010.
• The New Abortion Wars:  Recalling the Lessons of the 1929s, CounterPunch, June 25-27, 2010.
• Blood on the Floor:  The Mounting Social Crisis & the Fate of the Working Class, CounterPunch, August 8, 2010.
• Know-Nothings of 2010, Part 1:  The Tyranny of False Consciousness, CounterPunch, August 13, 2010.
• Know-Nothings of 2010, Part 2:  The Tyranny of False Consciousness, CounterPunch, August 20-22, 2010.
• End of “the American Century”?:  Suffering the New Normal, CounterPunch, September 10, 2010.
• Tea Party Panic:  The Fear of Sex & Race & Interracial Sex, CounterPunch, September 17, 2010.
• How the Phone Companies Are Screwing America: The $320 Billion Broadband Rip-Off. AlterNet, October 6, 2010.
• The Sexy Sisters:  Tea Party Infatuation with the “New” Republican Woman, CounterPunch, October 15, 2010.
• Conservatives’ Big Hypocrisy: Turning Women Candidates (Who Are Anti-Sex and Anti-Woman) into Sex Symbols, AlterNet, October 15, 2010.
• Class War in America:  The War That Dares Not Speak Its Name, CounterPunch, October 29-31, 2010.
• Class War Spurs Violent Clashes in Europe — Why Are Americans Just Letting the Super Rich Win?, AlterNet, November 1, 2010.
• Class War Redux:  The Tea Party Congress and Likely Return to Social Purity, CounterPunch, December 3-5, 2010.

 

2014

• AIDS: Rise of Killer Virus. Documentary Television, November 30, 2014
• HIV & Ebola & the Zoonoses Wars: The Other Ecological Crisis. CounterPunch, November 21-23, 2014.
• Ambitious new documentary, airing on World AIDS Day, will trace origins of HIV. 429magazine, November 26, 2014
•  The Ritual of Beheading: A History of Political Terror. CounterPunch, November 21-23, 2014.
• Sex Toy Industry Has Quietly Turned Into Multi-Billion-Dollar Business. AlterNet, November 18, 2014.
• Point of No Return?: Gay Marriage and the 2014 Elections. CounterPunch, November 3, 2014.
• Has the U.S. finally reached a tipping point with same-sex marriage?  429magazine, Oct 14, 2014.
• Meet the New Proletariat: The Political Economy of Freelancing. CounterPunch, October 24-26, 2014.
• To See the Bleak Future of U.S. Workers, Look What Happened to an NBC Contractor Covering the Ebola Outbreak, AlterNet, October 12, 2014.
• Thomas Page McBee’s “Man Alive.“ 429magazine, Oct 14, 2014.
• Does Folsom Street Fair signal the death of leather? 429magazine, September 16, 2014
• 5 Scams and Rackets That Can Turn You Into a 21st-Century Indentured Servant, AlterNet, July 2, 2014
• Meet the Rockefellers: American Oligarchs & the Influence They Wield. CounterPunch, May 16-18, 2014.
• Meet the Waltons: American Oligarchs & the Influence They Wield. CounterPunch, May 9-11, 2014.
• Plutocrats v. Oligarchs: America’s Superrich & the Influence They Wield. CounterPunch, May 2-4, 2014.
• Save Net Neutrality: Make the Internet a Common Carrier, CounterPunch, April 25-27, 2014.
• How Much Sexting Do Americans Do? Ask the British Surveillance State. AlterNet, March 21, 2014
• Who’s a Virgin?: The Sexual Practices of Young Americans, CounterPunch, March 21-23, 2014.
• Alienated Bodies: The Boom in Plastic Surgery, CounterPunch, March 7-9, 2014.
• The Five Horsemen of the Cyber Apocalypse, Cyber Defense Magazine, February 2014.
• Incest Panic in America!: Woody Allen and the Oldest Taboo, CounterPunch, February 14-16, 2014.
• Media Consolidation Intensifies: Can the Comcast and Time/Warner Cable Merger be Stopped?, CounterPunch, February 13, 2014.
• The School Broadband Scam: Kids Suffer as Telecoms Profits Soar, CounterPunch, February 7-9, 2014.
• Super Bowl Sex: The Sex Trade and the Crisis of Masculinity, CounterPunch, January 31-February 2, 2014.
• Will 2014 Be the Year That Smartphone Filmmaking Goes Mainstream?, IndieWire, January 29, 2013.
• Privatizing the Public Good: Is This the End of Net Neutrality? CounterPunch, January 15, 2014.

2013

• Obama Disses Digital Promise to U.S. Kids: Broadband to the Classroom. CounterPunch, August 9-11, 2013.
• Trading Flesh for Cash: Inside the Strip Club.  AlterNet, August 8, 2013.
• Sex Crime Charade:  Why Have Prostitution Arrests Dropped by 50 Percent?  CounterPunch, August 2-4, 2013.
• Could Porn Be Censored in America?  AlterNet, July 31, 2013
• A Tale of Two Pols: Carlos Danger v. Beau James.  CounterPunch, July 26-28, 2013
• The Flesh Trade: Sex Work in America.  AlterNet, July 18, 2013.
• The Great Sandy Shell Game: American Telecom Users Will Be the Real Losers.  CounterPunch, July 18, 2013.
• New Pornographers Claim Their Work Is Ethical, Feminist and ‘Sex-Positive,’ But Will It Sell?  AlterNet, July 4, 2013.
• sex, lies and the great recession:  What’s the Sexual Health of the Nation?  CounterPunch, June 21-13, 2013.
• Village People, a review of John Strausbaugh’s
 The Village: 400 Years of Beats and Bohemians, Radicals and Rogues, a History of Greenwich Village.  Brooklyn Rail, June 2013. 
• Is the Rise of Filthy Gonzo Porn Actually Dangerous, Or Are People Overreacting?  AlterNet, June 7, 2013.
• Is Success Killing the Porn Industry? AlterNet, May 27, 2013.
• Regulatory Capture at the FCC:  Corporate Corruption and the Special Interest State.  CounterPunch,  May 24-26, 2013.
• Weiner Redux:  Political Rehabilitation & the End of the Culture Wars. CounterPunch, May 23, 2013.
• The Real Gatsby: The One-and-Owney. CounterPunch, May 14, 2013.
• Arresting a Teen Girl for Dozing Off in Class? Why Normal Kid Behavior Is Treated As a Crime or Psychiatric Disorder.  AlterNet,  May 6, 2013.
• Tribeca Interactive: New Voices in Indie New Media.  CounterPunch, AlterNet, April 12-14, 2013.
• How the Women of Good Vibrations and Babeland Have Helped to Liberate Female Orgasms. AlterNet, April 18, 2013.
• Another Internet is Possible: Some Questions for the New FCC Chairperson.  CounterPunch, April 5-7, 2013.
• What Academic Freedom?, a review  Marjorie Heins,
Priests of Our Democracy: The Supreme Court, Academic Freedom and the Anti-Communist Purge, The Brooklyn Rail, April 2013.
• Republicans Rev Up Conservative Cinema, Filmmaker, March 25, 2013.
• Amazon Sells 60,000 Sex Toys and Related Products? Welcome to Sex 4.0. AlterNet, March 22, 2013.
• What the $15 Billion Sex Toy Industry Tells Us About Sexuality Today.  AlterNet, March 8, 2013.
• AT&T Wants New Digital Dead Zones, with Bruce Kushnick.  Huffington Post, March 7, 2013.
• The Great One, Two Punch: Socialize Costs, Privatize Profits.  CounterPunch, March 1-3, 2013.
• The Telecom Crisis: Opium of the 21st Century.  CounterPunch, January 25-27, 2013.
  
• The Body Politic, a review Nancy Cohen’s Delirium:  The Politics of Sex in America, The Brooklyn Rail, February 2013.
• End of the Culture Wars?: Is the Christian Right’s Fury Spent for Now?.  CounterPunch, January 25-27 , 2013.
• Consumer Beware:  You Are Being Tracked.  AlterNet,  January 17, 2013. 

• “Sexual Politics in the Age of Obama,” in Hopeless:  Barack Obama and the Politics of Illusion, ed.  by Jeffrey St. Clair, AK Press (2012).

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  A column for Filmmaker magazine.
  • August 2013:  In the Age of Digital Disruption, What is a Movie?
  • July 2013:  Will “Unbundling” Kill Cable?
  • July 2013:  Amazon Studios Ups the Ante in the Content Wars
  • June 2013:  VOD Wars Heat Up
    
  • June 2013:  What Indie Filmmakers Need to Know About Mobile Video Viewing
    
  • May 2013:  Will Tom Wheeler Kill Net Neutrality?
  • April 2013:  Just How Healthy Is Independent Film Distribution?
  • April 2013:  YouTube’s Aggressive Move into Original Content
  • March 2013: Republicans Rev Up Conservative Cinema.
  • March 2013:  Six Strikes and You’re Out.
  • February 2013:  Opportunities for Indies?
  • February 2013: Neutralizing Net Neutrality
  • January 2013: Video Streaming & Indies
  • January 2013:  Will Data Caps Kill Indie Film?

2012

• MEDIA CURRENT: News & Analysis for Indie Makers
• A column for Filmmaker magazine.

• December 2012:  Internet Alternatives
• December 2012:  Murdock’s Media Monopoly
• November 2012:  Will Comcast Get Disney?
• November 2012: VOD for Indies
• October 2012: Encrypting Basic TV
• October 2012: Pay to View
• September 2012: Another Web is Possible
• September 2012:The Screen Matters
• August 2012:  Google Fiber
• August 2012:  What’s Happening, Mr. Jones?
• July 2012:  Film Business Shrinking
• July 2012:  Cell Phone Policing
• June 2012: Artful Dodgers
• June 2012: Personal Democracy

May 2012: Is Crowdfunding for You

• May 2012:The New Hollywood
• April 2012:What Privacy
• April 2012: Cable Woes
• April 2012: Hollywood Shuffle
• March 2012:Are You Being Throttled?
• March 2012: Aereo & the New TV Wars
• February 2012: Bruised Apple
• February 2012:Broadband Failure

January 2012: End to Cross-Ownership Rules?

2019

• Where Do the Democratic Candidates Stand?, CounterPunch, March 29, 2019.
• America’s Puppet: Meet Juan Guaido, CounterPunch, March 15, 2019.
• “Death by Despair”: Trump and the White Working Class, CounterPunch, March 8, 2019.
• Remember the Maine?: CIA Intervention in Venezuela, CounterPunch, March 3, 2019.
• Will Venezuela Crisis Split Democrats?, CounterPunch, February 22, 2019.
• Will Trump Resign Before the 2020 Election?, CounterPunch, February 12, 2019.
• After the Rise and Stall of American Feminism: Taking Back a Revolution by Lynn Chancer, New York Journal of Books, February 5, 2019.
• The Denier-in-Chief: Trump and the Legitimation of False Consciousness, CounterPunch, February 1, 2019.
• Roe: Preparing for the Worst, CounterPunch, January 24, 2019.
• Handbook for a Post-Roe America by Robin Marty, New York Journal of Books, January 21, 2019.
• The Biden Band-Aid: Will Democrats Contain the Insurgency?, CounterPunch, January 18, 2018.
• Sexual Predators in the Era of Trump, CounterPunch, January 11, 2019.
• Nixon and Trump: Bookends to the Culture Wars, CounterPunch, January 2, 2019.

2018

• December 17th: International Day to End the Violence against Sex Workers, CounterPunch, December 17, 2018.
• The Swamp Stinks: Trump & Washington’s Rot, CounterPunch, December 9, 2018.
• Conversion Therapy is Fake Medicine, Progressive, November 30, 2018.
• The Abortion Battle Continues, CounterPunch, November 30, 2018.
• Amazon Deal: New York Taxpayers Fund World’s Biggest Sex-Toy Retailer, CounterPunch, November 19, 2018.
• It’s Time to Decriminalize Sex Work, CounterPunch, November 9, 2018.
• What Is To Be Done?:  Looking Past Trump’s Tyranny, CounterPunch, November 2, 2018.
• Trump”s HHS & the Renewed Culture Wars, CounterPunch, October 26, 2018.
• America’s Lost Souls: The New Lumpen-Proletariat?, CounterPunch, October 19, 2018.
• Packing the Court in the 21st Century, CounterPunch, October 12, 2018.
• Fake Abortion Clinics: “We’re Fighting Satan, CounterPunch, October, 5, 2018.
• Is the U.S. in a Pre-Fascist Period?, CounterPunch, September 28, 2018.
• Time to Decriminalize Prostitution, The Progressive, August 4, 2018.
• The Value of Everything:Making and Taking in the Global Economy, by Mariana Mazzucato, a review, New York Journal of Books, September 25, 2018.
• As the World Turns: From Empire to Imperialism to Globalization?, CounterPunch, September 21, 2018.
• Why Stop at Roe: How “Settled Law” Can be Overturned, CounterPunch, September 21, 2018.
• When a Kiss is Not a Kiss, CounterPunch, September 7, 2018.
• Prostitution in the Age of Trump, CounterPunch, July 27, 2018.
• Trump’s Fake Boom: Growing Despair Amidst Insecure Economic Recovery, Counterpunch, August 31, 2018.
• Hate Gets it Done: Why America is Far Scarier Than Trump, CounterPunch, August 24, 2018.
• It’s Time to Decriminalize Sex Work, The Progressive, August 14, 2018.
• Trump’s Politics: Power, Powerlessness and the Perfect Target, CounterPunch, August 7, 2018,
• Prostitution in the Age of Trump, CounterPunch, July 27, 2018.
• Trump’s Supreme Pick Escalates America’s War on Sex, CounterPunch, July 20, 2018.
• The New McCarthyism: Is the Electric Chair Next for the Left?, CounterPunch, July 13, 2018.
• Lest We Forget: Recalling the Second Culture Wars, CounterPunch, June 29, 2018.
• The Trials of Nina McCall: Sex, Surveillance, and the Decades-Long Government Plan to Imprison “Promiscuous” Women by Scott W. Stern, New York Journal of Books, June 26, 2018
• Thin Red Line: Flirting v Harassment, CounterPunch, May 9, 2018.
• The War on Sex Trafficking: A Culture Wars’ Racket, CounterPunch, April 27, 2018.
• Trump v. Kennedy: Presidential Sex Scandals and the Transformation of Shame, CounterPunch, April 13, 2018.
• Its Time to Radically Redistribute Social Wealth, CounterPunch, April 6, 2018.
• The Future Adventures of the President and the Porn Star, CounterPunch, March 22, 2018.
• The Most Dangerous Man in the World: Timothy Leary, Richard Nixon and the Hunt for the Fugitive Kind of LSD by  Bill Minutanglio and Steven L. Davis, New York Journal of Books, March 13, 2018.
• Can Class Struggle and Identity Politics Be Reconciled?, CounterPunch, March 9, 2018.
• Killing by the Number: How Many More to Follow?, CounterPunch, March 1, 2018.
• For Some Reason, Being White Still Matter, CounterPunch, February, 23, 2018.
• Donald Trump’s Pathetic Sex Life, CounterPunch, February 13, 2018.
• Will Tump Make It Through Year Two, Counterpunch, February 8, 2018.
• Why Trump’s Support is Slipping, CounterPunch, January 31, 2018.
• From Moral Outrage to Moral Panic: the Limits of Public Rage, CounterPunch, January 29, 2018
• The New Gilded Age: First Time Arrogance, the Second Time Vengeance, CounterPunch, January 9, 2018.

2017

• • What Happened to the 40-hr Workweek?, CounterPunch, December 29, 2017.
  • Is It Time to Decriminalize Prostitution?, CouterPunch, December 18, 2017.
  • The Second Coming of the KKK: The Klu Klux Klan of the 1920s and the American Political Tradition, by Linda Gordon, New York Journal of Book, December 17, 2017.
  • Politics Trumps Religion: The Immorality of the Republican “Christian” Morality, CounterPunch, December 12, 2017
  • Century of the National Security State: A New Subversives List?, CounterPunch, November 29, 2017.
  • Lone-Wolf Terrorism: A Symptom of the Deepening Social Crisis, New Politics, November 10, 2017.
  • Of Sex Abusers and Sex Offenders, CounterPunch, November 17, 2017.
  • Terrorism & White Men’s Murderous Rage, CounterPunch, November 7, 2017.
  • Paul Robeson v. Jackie Robinson: A Lost Moment in American History, Black Star News, November 7, 2017
  • Is God Finally Dead?: The Triumph of Halloween’s Sacrilegious Celebrations, Counterpunch November 3, 2017.
  • The Naughty Nineties: The Triumph of the American Libido by David Friend, New York Journal of Books, November 3, 2017.
  • Male Sexual Violence: As American as Cherry Pie, CounterPunch, October 20, 2017.

• Trump & the 21^st Century Family, CounterPunch, October 10, 2017.
• True Sex: The Lives of Trans Men at the Turn of the Twentieth Century by Emily Skidmore, New York Journal of Books, October 2, 2017.
• “Bag-the-Fag”: Entrapping Sex Offenders, CounterPunch, September 29, 2017.
• Populist vs. Progressives: Are They Still Relevant?, CounterPunch, September 15, 2017.
• What Gender?: The Evolving Definition of Sexual Identity, CounterPunch, September 15, 2017.
• Reactionary Rage: The Wars Against Those Who Threaten Those in Power, CounterPunch, September 7, 2017.
• Do Americans Have a Right to Sexual Pleasure?, CounterPunch, September 1, 2017.
• No More Politics as Usual, American Herald Tribune, August 30, 2017.
• When He Was King: Ali’s Come Back in Atlanta, Black Star News, August 29, 2017.
• Sex Robots: The Sad Future of Sexual Fantasy, CounterPunch, August 25, 2017.
• Would Trump Execute a False Terrorist Attack to Forestall Loss of Political Power, American Herald Tribune, August 23, 2017
• Permanent War, Permanent Failure, CounterPunch, August 18, 2017.
• Trump & Sex: From Up-Market Hedonist to Down-Market Moralists, CounterPunch, August 11, 2017.
• America’s Five Sex Panics, CounterPunch, July 21, 2017.
• Trump & the Commodity of Self, CounterPunch, July 14, 2017.
• Has the “Working Class” Lost Its Meaning?, CounterPunch, June 30, 2017.
• The Sex Offender: The 21^st Century Witch, CounterPunch, June 23, 2017.
• An End to Conversion Therapy?, CounterPunch, June 12, 2017.
• The War on Sex, David M. Halperin and Trevor Hoppe, editors, New York Journal of Book, June 5, 2017.
• What’s Going on in New York?, CounterPunch, June 2, 2017.
• Fear City: New York’s Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics by Kim Phillips-Fein, New York Journal of Book, May 26, 2017.
• Politics and the Agent of Social Change, CounterPunch, May 12, 2017.
• The Sexual State of the Nation: Less Sex, Higher Anxiety, CounterPunch, May 12, 2017.
• Melania Trump: Another First Lady as Good Wife?, CounterPunch, May 5, 2017.
• Inequality: Trump’s Challenge, Trump’s Failure, CounterPunch, May 1, 2017.
• Fiction, Fake News and Trump’s Sexual Politics, CounterPunch, April 21, 2017.
• Sex and the Constitution: Sex, Religion, and Law from America’s Origins to the Twenty-First Century, by Geoffrey R.   New York Journal of Books, April 11, 2017.
• Countdown to Disaster: Trump’s Looning Afghan Crisis, CounterPunch, March 31, 2017.
• Why Did Trump Target Transgender Youth?, CounterPunch, March 24, 2017.
• Popular Insurgency: Reshaping the Politican Landscape, CounterPunch, March 21, 2017.
• Respectability on Trial: Sex Crimes in New York City, 1900–1918,by Brian Donovan, New York Journal of Books, March 20, 2017.  
• Clueless in the Face of Crisis: Democrats Continue to Flounder, CounterPunch, March 10, 2017.
• Sexual Violence: Who Perpetrates It & Who Suffers, CounterPunch, March 3, 2017.
• Suspect Feedoms: The Racial and Sexual Politics of Cubanidad in New York, 1823-1957, by Nancy Raquel Mirabel, book review, New York Review of Books, February 13, 2017.
• Pigs at the Trough: Privatization of the Public Good, CounterPunch, February 3, 2017.
• The New Censorship Wars Begin: Porn, Sex Trafficking & Backpage, CounterPunch, January 27, 2017.
• Globalization vs Empire: Can Trump Contain the Growing Split?, CounterPunch, January 20, 2017.
• Return of the Repressed: Trump & the Renewal of the Culture Wars, CounterPunch, January 13, 2017.
• Secrets of the Bible Belt: Trump, Porn & the Making of the New South, CounterPunch, January 6, 2017.

2016

• Could It Have Been Different?, CounterPunch, December 30, 2016.
• What Happens When the Trump Bubble Bursts?, CounterPunch, December 20, 2106.
• State Power & Terror: From Wounded Knee to Standing Rock, CounterPunch, December 6,, 2016.
• Return of HUAC?, CounterPunch, December 2, 2016.
• Perversions of Power: Trump’s Hedonism vs. Pence’s Puritanism, CounterPunch, November 25, 2016.
• A New Conception of Sexual Violence, CounterPunch, November 11, 2016.
• 16 And Not Pregnant: A Shift in the Culture War Unearthed by This Election, AlterNet, November 7, 2016.
• The War on Drugs is a Racket, CounterPunch, October 21, 2016.
• Was Bill Clinton the Most Sexist President?, CounterPunch, October 20, 2016.
• What Happened to the Culture War?  CounterPunch, October 7, 2016.
• The Great Fear:  Miscegenation, Race “Pollution” and the 2016 Election.  CounterPunch. August 19, 2016.
• The Crack-Up: Is the Two-Party System Splintering?, CounterPunch, August 12, 2016.
• Meet Ela Darling: The 21st Century’s First VR Porn Star, AlterNet, August 8, 2016.
• Culture War & 2016 Election, CounterPunch, August 5, 2016.
• Lone-Wolf Terrorism: The Chickens Are Coming Home to Roost, CounterPunch, July 15, 2016.
• Are We Entering an Era of Postmodern Serfdom?, CounterPunch, July 8, 2016.
• What Happened to Utopia?, CounterPunch, July 1, 2016.
• Birth-Control Wars: Two Centuries of Struggle, CounterPunch, June 29, 2016.
• Americans Work to Long for Too Little, CounterPunch, June 24-26, 2016.
• The 1% Have Always Ruled America, Truthout, June 20, 2016.
• Privatization of the Public Sphere, CounterPunch, May 20, 2016.
• Verizon Strike Exposes Broader Shifts in Telecom Labor Conditions, TruthOut, May 13, 2016.
• VR Sex: The Future of Porn?, CounterPunch,  May 13, 2016.
• Job Satisfaction Under Perpetual Stagnation, CounterPunch, April 29-31, 2016.
• Crime & Public Shaming, CounterPunch, April 15-17, 2016.
• Culture War Zombies: The Latest Anti-Gay Campaign, CounterPunch, April 8-10, 2016.
• Will America Ever Be Great Again?, CounterPunch, March 25, 2016.
• Illegal Drugs, Race & the 2016 Election, CounterPunch, March 18-20, 2016.
• An American Nightmare: Pres. Donald Trump Faces a National Security Crisis, CounterPunch, March 16, 2016.
• Corruption, USA, CounterPunch, March 11-13, 2016.
• Trump & the Crisis of Masculinity, CounterPunch, February 26-28, 2016.
• 21st Century Public Shaming, CounterPunch, February 19-21, 2016.
• When Trump Confronted a Transsexual Beauty, CounterPunch, February 12-14, 2016.
• New Dogs, Old Barks: The Culture Wars Recalibrated, CounterPunch, January 29-31, 2016.
• The Brooklyn Thrill-Kill Gang and the Great Comic Book Scare of the 1950s, Mariah Adlin (review), Sexuality and Culture, #20, v. 1, pp. 192-94 (January 2016).
• Trump and GOP Promise to Maintain Diminishing “White Skin” Privilege, Black Star News, January 11, 2016.

2015

• Trump’s Enemies List: A Trial Balloon for More Repression, CounterPunch, November 24, 2015.
• NYPD: The New Red Squad, CounterPunch, November 13-15, 2015.
• If Donald Dump Was President, CounterPunch, October 9, 2015.`
• The Night Josephine Baker Never Got Her Steak, Black Star News, October 7, 2015.
• New York City’s 1900 “Race Riot,” Black Star News, September 21, 2015.
• The Great Disillusionment, CounterPunch, September 11-13, 2015.
• 16 and Pregnant: Can Realty TV Promote Positive Social Change?, Documentary Television, September 1, 2015.
• Rebellion Or Riots?: History Of Race-Based Confrontations In The United States, Black Star News, August 31, 2015.
• Billie Holiday: Enduring Relevance of “Strange Fruit,” Black Star New, August 27, 2015.
• Class vs. Culture: Reframing Political Struggle, CounterPunch, August 21-23, 2015.
• Hillary Clinton: Learn From Your Sisters, CounterPunch, July 31-August 2, 2015.

2014

• AIDS: Rise of Killer Virus. Documentary Television, November 30, 2014

• HIV & Ebola & the Zoonoses Wars: The Other Ecological Crisis. CounterPunch, November 21-23, 2014.

• Ambitious new documentary, airing on World AIDS Day, will trace origins of HIV. 429magazine, November 26, 2014.

•  The Ritual of Beheading: A History of Political Terror. CounterPunch, November 21-23, 2014.

•  Sex Toy Industry Has Quietly Turned Into Multi-Billion-Dollar Business. AlterNet, November 18, 2014.

• Point of No Return?: Gay Marriage and the 2014 Elections. CounterPunch, November 3, 2014.

•  Has the U.S. finally reached a tipping point with same-sex marriage?  429magazine, Oct 14, 2014.

• Meet the New Proletariat: The Political Economy of Freelancing. CounterPunch, October 24-26, 2014.

• To See the Bleak Future of U.S. Workers, Look What Happened to an NBC Contractor Covering the Ebola Outbreak, AlterNet, October 12, 2014.

• Thomas Page McBee’s “Man Alive.“ 429magazine, Oct 14, 2014.

• Does Folsom Street Fair signal the death of leather? 429magazine, September 16, 2014

• 5 Scams and Rackets That Can Turn You Into a 21st-Century Indentured Servant, AlterNet, July 2, 2014

• Meet the Rockefellers: American Oligarchs & the Influence They Wield. CounterPunch, May 16-18, 2014.

• Meet the Waltons: American Oligarchs & the Influence They Wield. CounterPunch, May 9-11, 2014.

• Plutocrats v. Oligarchs: America’s Superrich & the Influence They Wield. CounterPunch, May 2-4, 2014.

• Save Net Neutrality: Make the Internet a Common Carrier, CounterPunch, April 25-27, 2014.

• How Much Sexting Do Americans Do? Ask the British Surveillance State. AlterNet, March 21, 2014

• Who’s a Virgin?: The Sexual Practices of Young Americans, CounterPunch, March 21-23, 2014.

• Alienated Bodies: The Boom in Plastic Surgery, CounterPunch, March 7-9, 2014.

• The Five Horsemen of the Cyber Apocalypse, Cyber Defense Magazine, February 2014.

• Incest Panic in America!: Woody Allen and the Oldest Taboo, CounterPunch, February 14-16, 2014.

• Media Consolidation Intensifies: Can the Comcast and Time/Warner Cable Merger be Stopped?, CounterPunch, February 13, 2014.

• The School Broadband Scam: Kids Suffer as Telecoms Profits Soar, CounterPunch, February 7-9, 2014.

• Super Bowl Sex: The Sex Trade and the Crisis of Masculinity, CounterPunch, January 31-February 2, 2014.

• Will 2014 Be the Year That Smartphone Filmmaking Goes Mainstream?, IndieWire, January 29, 2013.

• Privatizing the Public Good: Is This the End of Net Neutrality? CounterPunch, January 15, 2014.

2013

• Obama Disses Digital Promise to U.S. Kids: Broadband to the Classroom. CounterPunch, August 9-11, 2013.

• Trading Flesh for Cash: Inside the Strip Club.  AlterNet, August 8, 2013.

• Sex Crime Charade:  Why Have Prostitution Arrests Dropped by 50 Percent?  CounterPunch, August 2-4, 2013.

• Could Porn Be Censored in America?  AlterNet, July 31, 2013

• A Tale of Two Pols: Carlos Danger v. Beau James.  CounterPunch, July 26-28, 2013

• The Flesh Trade: Sex Work in America.  AlterNet, July 18, 2013.

• The Great Sandy Shell Game: American Telecom Users Will Be the Real Losers.  CounterPunch, July 18, 2013.

• New Pornographers Claim Their Work Is Ethical, Feminist and ‘Sex-Positive,’ But Will It Sell?  AlterNet, July 4, 2013.

• sex, lies and the great recession:  What’s the Sexual Health of the Nation?  CounterPunch, June 21-13, 2013.

• Village People, a review of John Strausbaugh’s
 The Village: 400 Years of Beats and Bohemians, Radicals and Rogues, a History of Greenwich Village.  Brooklyn Rail, June 2013. 

• Is the Rise of Filthy Gonzo Porn Actually Dangerous, Or Are People Overreacting?  AlterNet, June 7, 2013.

• Is Success Killing the Porn Industry? AlterNet, May 27, 2013.

• Regulatory Capture at the FCC:  Corporate Corruption and the Special Interest State.  CounterPunch,  May 24-26, 2013.

• Weiner Redux:  Political Rehabilitation & the End of the Culture Wars. CounterPunch, May 23, 2013.

• The Real Gatsby: The One-and-Owney. CounterPunch, May 14, 2013.

• Arresting a Teen Girl for Dozing Off in Class? Why Normal Kid Behavior Is Treated As a Crime or Psychiatric Disorder.  AlterNet,  May 6, 2013.

• Tribeca Interactive: New Voices in Indie New Media.  CounterPunch, AlterNet, April 12-14, 2013.

• How the Women of Good Vibrations and Babeland Have Helped to Liberate Female Orgasms. AlterNet, April 18, 2013.

• Another Internet is Possible: Some Questions for the New FCC Chairperson.  CounterPunch, April 5-7, 2013.

• What Academic Freedom?, a review  Marjorie Heins,
Priests of Our Democracy: The Supreme Court, Academic Freedom and the Anti-Communist Purge, The Brooklyn Rail, April 2013.

• Republicans Rev Up Conservative Cinema, Filmmaker, March 25, 2013.

• Amazon Sells 60,000 Sex Toys and Related Products? Welcome to Sex 4.0. AlterNet, March 22, 2013.

• What the $15 Billion Sex Toy Industry Tells Us About Sexuality Today.  AlterNet, March 8, 2013.

• AT&T Wants New Digital Dead Zones, with Bruce Kushnick.  Huffington Post, March 7, 2013.

• The Great One, Two Punch: Socialize Costs, Privatize Profits.  CounterPunch, March 1-3, 2013.

• The Telecom Crisis: Opium of the 21st Century.  CounterPunch, January 25-27, 2013.
  

• The Body Politic, a review Nancy Cohen’s Delirium:  The Politics of Sex in America, The Brooklyn Rail, February 2013.
  

• End of the Culture Wars?: Is the Christian Right’s Fury Spent for Now?.  CounterPunch, January 25-27 , 2013.

• Consumer Beware:  You Are Being Tracked.  AlterNet,  January 17, 2013. 

“Sexual Politics in the Age of Obama,” in Hopeless:  Barack Obama and the Politics of Illusion, ed.  by Jeffrey St. Clair, AK Press (2012).

• MEDIA CURRENT: News & Analysis for Indie Makers
  A column for Filmmaker magazine.
  • August 2013:  In the Age of Digital Disruption, What is a Movie?
  • July 2013:  Will “Unbundling” Kill Cable?
  • July 2013:  Amazon Studios Ups the Ante in the Content Wars
  • June 2013:  VOD Wars Heat Up
    
  • June 2013:  What Indie Filmmakers Need to Know About Mobile Video Viewing
    
  • May 2013:  Will Tom Wheeler Kill Net Neutrality?
  • April 2013:  Just How Healthy Is Independent Film Distribution?
  • April 2013:  YouTube’s Aggressive Move into Original Content
  • March 2013: Republicans Rev Up Conservative Cinema.
  • March 2013:  Six Strikes and You’re Out.
  • February 2013:  Opportunities for Indies?
  • February 2013: Neutralizing Net Neutrality
  • January 2013: Video Streaming & Indies
  • January 2013:  Will Data Caps Kill Indie Film?

• • December 2012:  Internet Alternatives
  • December 2012:  Murdock’s Media Monopoly
  • November 2012:  Will Comcast Get Disney?
  • November 2012: VOD for Indies
  • October 2012: Encrypting Basic TV
  • October 2012: Pay to View
  • September 2012: Another Web is Possible
  • September 2012: The Screen Matters
  • August 2012:  Google Fiber
  • August 2012:  What’s Happening, Mr. Jones?
  • July 2012:  Film Business Shrinking
  • July 2012:  Cell Phone Policing
  • June 2012: Artful Dodgers
  • June 2012: Personal Democracy
  • May 2012: Is Crowdfunding for You?
  • May 2012: The New Hollywood
  • April 2012: What Privacy
  • April 2012: Cable Woes
    
  • April 2012: Hollywood Shuffle
    
  • March 2012: Are You Being Throttled?
    
  • March 2012: Aereo & the New TV Wars
    
  • February 2012: Bruised Apple
    
  • February 2012: Broadband Failure
    
  • January 2012: End to Cross-Ownership Rules?
  • December 2011: You Should be Paranoid
  • December 2011: Your TV Future
  • December 2011: The Shell Game
  • November 2011: The IP Wars
  • November 2011: Is Net Neutrality Dead?
  • November 2011: The AT&T Merger Update
  • October 2011:  The IFP Market
  • September 2011:  Remembering 9/11
  • August 2011:  The Big Squeeze

2012

• Obama’s Broadband Vision vs.  the Communications Trust, with Bruce Kushnick.   Huffington Post, June 25, 2012.
  To fulfill the promise US Ignite and NPB, we propose eight correctives, enhancements, to the Obama administration’s initative.

• The Other Sex War: Porn, Sex Toys & Consensual Adult Get-Togethers.  CounterPunch, June 15-17, 2012.
  There is another sex war and lots of people are involved.

• 6 Government Surveillance Programs Designed to What What You Do Online.  AlterNet, June 6, 2012.
  If you use Facebook, Twitter, et al., the U.S. security state is watching you.

• Deviant Reflections: A Voice of Sexual Freedom, a review of “Deviations, a Gayle Rubin Reader.”  The Brooklyn Rail, June 2012.
  
  
• America’s Spy State:  How the Telecoms Sell Out Your Privacy.  AlterNet, May 29, 2012.
  Your “private” information is a public commodity, subject to the dictates of the security state and market opportunists.

• The Terrifying Ways Google is Destroying Your Privacy.  AlterNet, May 20, 2012.
  Google has morphed from “Don’t be evil” to “Join the Borg.”

• Urban Combustion:  When Morality & Politics Mix, a review of Richard Zacks’ “Island of Vice: Theodore Roosevelt’s Doomed Quest to Clean Up Sin-Loving New York.”  Br0oklyn Rail, May 2012.
  

• Paying the Price:  The Sexual Politics of Poverty.  CounterPunch, May 11-13, 2012.
  Young girls are paying the biggest price for the ongoing economic crisis.

• Another Prohibition:  Uncovering the Real 1920s, a review of Emily Bernard’s Carl Van Vechten & the  Harlem Renaissance and Marni Davis’ Jews and Booze.   Brooklyn Rail, April 2012.
  
  
• Enforcing the Culture Wars:  The State as an Instrument of Sexual Repression.  CounterPunch, April 13-15, 2012.  The culture wars are being fought out at the state level throughout the country.

• We Are All Luddites:  Fighting Post-Modern Enclosure.  CounterPunch, March 30-April 1, 2012.
  This year marks the 200th anniversary of the Luddite uprising.

• The Telecom Scammers’ Latest Ploy to Screw You for More Cash.  AlterNet, March 21, 2012.
  Fees, surcharges and taxes make wireless companies tons of money.

• Perversion Is No Longer Perverse, a review of  Margot Weiss’ Techniques of Pleasure: BDSM and the Circuits of Sexuality.  Brooklyn Rail, March 2012.
  

• Santorum & the New Know-Nothings:  The Revival of American Nativism.  CounterPunch, March 9, 2012.
  Santorum’s appeal is grounded in a deep current of American political history.

• You Are Being Tracked Online:  Here Are 5 Ways to Protect Your Privacy.  AlterNet, March 7, 2012.
  Your personal data is being gobbled up by online service providers.

• Happy Birthday, Mr. President:  Sex, Sin & the 2010 Election.  CounterPunch, January 16, 2012.
  What does the latest revelation of JFK’s extramarital affair tell us about the 2012 election?
  

• WR: The Wanderings of a Lost Soul, a review of Christopher Turner’s Adventures in the Orgasmatron: How the Sexual Revolution Came to America.  Brooklyn Rail, February 2012.
• History and psychosis took their toll on Wilhelm Reich.

• Telecom Rip-Off:  The Hidden Fees in Your Wireless and Phone Bills.  AlterNet, January 16, 2012.
  The telecom industry is squeezing more money out of customers without delivering any new or improved service.

• Amorality & False Consciousness: The Mass Psychology of Newt Gingrich.  CounterPunch, January 27-29, 2012.
  Gingrich is the most hypocritical presidential candidate in modern history.

• Sin, Sex & South Carolina:  Culture Wars in the 2012 Election.  CounterPunch, January 20-22, 2012.
  The seamy side of South Carolina’s sexual culture.

• Least We Forget:  Mitt Romney, Banker & Pornographer.  CounterPunch, January 13-15, 2012.
  Romney has effectively remade his past; he’s slippery, no one knows who he is or what he stands for.

2011

• Are You Being Tracked?:  8 Ways Your Privacy is Being Eroded Online and Off.  AlterNet,  December 28, 2011.
  A series of ongoing battles delineate the boundary of what, in the digital age, is personal, private life and informatio.

• Social Television Summit: Five Takeaways for Factual TV,  December 28, 2011.
  Top experts and decision-makers recently came to New York to throw light on how the commercial TV business is adapting to the disruptive force called “social television.”

• Shame of the Nation:  Sexual Violence in America.  CounterPunch,  December 23-25, 2011.
  The CDC’s report on intimate sexual violence is one scary document.
  

• State Crime & Villainy:  Eugenics in America.  CounterPunch,  December 16-18, 2011.
  For seven decades, states across the country forcefully sterilized 60,000 people to purify the race.
  

• The Gathering Storm: Austerity & Social Unrest.  CounterPunch,  December 9-10, 2011.
  Occupy Wall Street has revitalized mass political actions and led to coordinated local police and federal efforts to halt them .

• How I Got Scammed:  A Schmuck is Born Everyday.   CounterPunch,  December 2-4, 2011.
  The title speaks for itself.

• Occupy Telecom, Occupy the FCC:  How the Communications Trust is Harming America’s Future.  AlterNet,  November 18, 2011.
  The telecom trust’s use of the FCC to raise your rates is an example of how corporate greed impacts each of us .
  

• Sex, Scandals & Cover-Ups:  Waiting for the Second Shoe to Fall.  CounterPunch,  November 15, 2011.
  The latest round of scandals involving Republic presidential candidate Herman Cain and the Penn State’s football-team coaching staff and top university administrators .

• The Telecom Scam: 5 Behemoths That Strangle Innovation and Ensure You Pay Two Much for Bad Service,  AlterNet.  November 11 , 2011.
  America’s communications system is in crisis, hijacked by a handful of giant companies coddled by the agencies that are suppose to regulate them.

• America’s Illegal Drug Complex:  Another Capitalist Racket.  CounterPunch,  November 11-13, 2011.
  American capitalism consists of a constellation of rackets and the illegal drug industry is no exception .

• The Politics of Obesity: The Fattening of the Nation.  CounterPunch,  October 28-30, 2011.
  The “obesity-industrial complex” wields enormous power and influence not only in Washington, but in every supermarket and on every dinner table .
  

• “End Regulation Now”:  Dreaming the Tea Party Nightmare,  CounterPunch,  October 28-30, 2011.
  The Tea Party call for the end of regulation is a political fiction.

• The Great Fear is Democracy:  Will Bloomburg Pull the Plug on Occupy Wall Street?  CounterPunch,  October 7-9, 2011.
  The October 5th mobilization expanded the social base of the OSW movement.

• Are You What You Wear?:  The Politics of Fashion,  The Brooklyn Rail,  October 2011.
  A Review of Zoot Suit:  The Enigmatic Career of an Extreme Style, by Kathy Peiss.

• The 1920s:  The Good Times?,  The Brooklyn Rail,  October 2011.
  A Review of Capital of the World:  A Portrait of New York City in the Roaring Twenties, by David Wallace.
  

• American Vengeance:  The Roots of Social Terror.  CounterPunch,  September 30-October 1, 2011.
  Vengeance haunts 21st Century America like a ghost of times long dead.

• 5 Takeaways from the IPF’s Independent Film Market.  DocumentaryTelevision, September 25,  2011.
  On online releasing and transmedia extension.
  

• Decline or Restructuring?: Welcome to the Post-Modern Gilded Age.  CounterPunch.  September 17-18, 2011.
  The U.S. is stuck, being restructured from a nation of shared prosperity to one of oligarchy and austerity.
  

• Least We Forget: Illegal Arrests During Period of National Crisis.  CounterPunch, September 10-11, 2011.
  The U.S. has a long history of overreacting to national crisis and few recall the mass arrests of female “prostitutes” during the First World War.

• The Politics of Fashion. ANDmagazine,  September  2011.
  Sometimes fashion crosses the line from a personal style to a social, if not political, statement.
  

• Drugged Out America: The Failed War on Drugs.  CounterPunch.  September 2, 2011 .
  Americans are “addicted” to a variety of drugs.
  

• Christian Theocrats Stealth Plan to Seize Power. ANDmgazine, August 2011,
  Watch out for Perry, Bachmann and the Christian Dominionist theocrats.
  

• One Nation, Under God:  The World According to Pastor Rich.  CounterPunch, August 19-20, 2011.
  Evangelical Reconstructionists seek to impose “God’s Law” on America … by any means necessary.

• Praying for Votes:  The New Way to Buy an Election.  CounterPunch, August 8-10, 2011.
  Religion joins as another final refuse of the scoundrel.

• The Pledge Plague:  The Cheap Price of Virtue.  ANDmagazine, July 2011.
  When all else fails, politicians sign a pledge.

• Remembering the Bonus Army: Where Are Today’s Mass Nonviolent Protests? AlterNet, July 27, 2011.
  On July 28, 1932, World War I veterans marched on Washington to demand their service bonus.  Today, in the face of austerity, we see very little protest like that march.

• Questions Plague Bachman:  Playing the New Political Shell Game.  ANDmagazine, July 2011.
  Congresswoman Michele Backmann (R-MN) is running for president — and running from herself.

• AIDS at 30: Things Will Likely Get Worse for the Most Vulnerable. CounterPunch, July 8-10, 2011.
  Over 1 million people are living with AIDS and every year 56,000 Americans become infected with HIV; nearly one out of two newly-infected person is black — under America’s new austerity regime, a new AIDS epidemic may breakout.

• The Smart Phone Con Job:  Your So-Called 4G Phone Isn’t What Its Cracked Up to Be. AlterNet, June 30, 2011.
  4G wireless is supposed to be cutting-edge, super-fast technology better than most home broadband.  But mobile companies mostly aren’t delivering on the promise.

• America’s Tahrir Square: The Lessons of the Bonus Army. CounterPunch, June 24-26, 2011.
  As we recognize the 79th anniversary of the Bonus March of 1932, we should not forget how truly violent things can get, especially how federal troops can be used against American people.

• Shill R Us:  Organizations That Get AT&T Cash Endorse its Mega-Merger with T-Mobile, AlterNet, June 22, 2011.
  A growing number of nonprofits are recipients of AT&T grants; are they violating their IRS nonprofit status by shilling for the company’s interests?

• The Secret $8 Billion Wireless Scam:  How AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon Game the System, AlterNet, June 20, 2011.
  Telecom giants Verizon and AT&T have gamed the system, using regulations designed to foster competition to snatch up ever more of the wireless spectrum.
  

• Weiner Roast: The Politics of Narcissism. CounterPunch, June 15, 2011.
  Rep. Anthony Weiner’s experience has as much to do with the U.S.’s legacy of puritanism as his own true stupidity and the demands of what can only be called “scandal journalism.”

• Pessimism, USA: Living While Holding Your Breath. CounterPunch, June 10-12, 2011.
  Americans are growing increasingly pessimistic about the Great Recession; many believe that the country is on the verge of sinking into a second Great Depression.

• AT&T  and T-Mobile Edge Closer to Merger, What’s In It For Customers?, Very Little, AlterNet, June 9, 2011.
  Telecom companies are rigging the game to make bigger profits on mostly-unregulated wireless, even as giant mergers eliminate most competition .

• Arnold’s Decade of Deceit:  Schwarzenegger’s Sexcapades and the Plight of the GOP, CounterPunch, May 27-29, 2011.
  The “Sperminator’s”  extra-marital hanky-panky and the 2012 election .

• Points of Moral Friction:  When Classes Confront Each Other, Brooklyn Rail, May  2011.
  A review of The Moral Underground: How Ordinary Americans Subvert an Unfair Economy, by Lisa Dodson.

• The Big Squeeze, AlterNet, May 19, 2011.
  Americans are living lives of lowered expectation and intensified financial uncertainty.

• Its Time to Break Up AT&T, Verizon, Comcast, TimeWarner and the Rest of the Telecoms, AlterNet, May 11, 2011.
  Today’s telecoms provide overpriced and inferior service, and are systematically overcharging the hapless American Consumer.
  

• Salons:  A New Intellectual Culture is Taking Shape Throughout the Country, AlterNet, May 8, 2011.
  Amidst the long, drawn-out recovery from the Great Recession, an unprecedented flowing of intellectual life is underway.

• TV Wars, Filmmaker Magazine, Spring 2011.
  How the telecommunications trust is shaping the future of the Internet … and indie film.
  

• The Tea Party Propaganda Factory You Probably Don’t Know About, AlterNet, April 20, 2011.
  The documentary production company Citizens United has dedicated itself to furthering the interests of the far-right and the super-rich.

• Lust Murder: Prostitutes as Victims of Throwaway Capitalism, CounterPunch, April 15-17, 2011.
  Prostitutes are being murdered throughout the country, what does this say about America?

• A New Dark Ages:  Sexual Health and the Republican Counter-Revolution, CounterPunch, April 8-10, 2011.
  Republican legislators at both the federal and state level are making savage cutbacks in sex-related health programs.
  

• Cyber Wars 2.0, Brooklyn Rail, April 2011.
  A review of The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom by Evgeny Morozov.

• How Politicians Are Using 911 Emergency Services to Scam Millions of Consumers, with Bruce Kushnick, AlterNet, March 5, 2011.
  Raiding 911 funds is an easy way for politicians to scoop up loose cash — far easier than taxing the rich.

• The Party’s Over: Welcome to the “New Normal,” Brooklyn Rail, March 2011.
  A review of Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer — and Turned Its Back on the Middle Class by Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson.

• Condoms and Skins: America’s Changing Sexual Appetites, CounterPunch, February 25-26, 2011.
  Teenagers are more likely to use a condom during sex than an adult, so reveals the 2010 National Survey of Sexual Health and Behavior study, a comprehensive snapshot of current American sexual practice.

• How Does the Drug Industry Get Away with Broadcasting Those Deceptive Ads?, AlterNet, February 23, 2011
  The U.S. is one of only two countries in the world that allows Big Pharma to advertise directly to consumers. How did we get here?

• Notorious Pro-Corporate Group ALEC’s Hidden Role in Stoking Class War in Wisconsin and the Rest of America, AlterNet, February 22, 2011.
  The American Legislative Executive Council works behind the scenes, using state-legislative stooges to implement the agenda of giant corporations and the super-rich.

• Celebrating Presidents’ Day: Two Centuries of Presidential Sex Scandals, CounterPunch, February 21, 2011.
  Presidents’ Day is a great shopping extravaganza! Everything from soapsuds to high-end SUVs is marked down to lure in shoppers and move products off the store shelves. However, the biggest sale that takes place on Presidents’ Day is the selling of the presidents.

• The Outrageous Ways Your Phone Company May Be Stealing from You, with Bruce Kushnick, AlterNet, February 9, 2011.
  Cramming, slamming and ramming are three of a growing number of scams being perpetrated on unaware telephone, wireless and Internet customers. Think you can easily identify bogus charges on your bill? Good luck.

• Bottoms-Up American History; book review of  Thaddeus Russell’s A Renegade History of the United States, Brooklyn Rail, February 2011.

• America’s Moral Crisis:  The Return to Social Darwinism, CounterPunch, January 28-30, 2011.
  The Great Recession of  2007-2009 was more than a financial and political crisis.  At root, it was a moral crisis.   Bernie Madoff and a handful of other racketeers were prosecuted, but all those actively or passively involved in the financial scam were not exposed, let alone legally dealt with.

• Will Only Another Great Depression Save America?, AlterNet, January 20, 2011.
  Americans are increasingly aware that the Great American Century is over. A November 2010 Rasmussen poll found that just over one-third (37 percent) of respondents believe America’s best days are still ahead. Sadly, nearly half (47 percent) say the nation’s best days are in the past. They wonder what will come next.

• The Myth of American Primacy: Just How Exceptional is the US?, CounterPunch, January 7-9, 2011.
  How exceptional is Americas?   35 indices compare the U.S.’s standing to other nations.  Sadly, the five categories in which America ranks #1 are: Military Expenditure, Incarceration, Marriage, Cosmetic Procedures and Obesity.

• How AT&T, Verizon and the Telecom Giants Have Captured the Regulator Supposed to Control Them, with Bruce Kushnick, AlterNet, January 8, 2011.
  Our telecom industry’s overseer doesn’t seem to have any control to stop the greed. That’s because it’s a puppet of the industry giants.