Publications — 2009-2006

2009

Nails in the Coffin: Last Gasps of the Culture Wars?, CounterPunch, February 1, 2009.
Sexting: Latest Innovation in Porn, CounterPunch, March 25, 2009.
Sexual Torture, Yet Again: We Will Ever Know the Complete Truth?, CounterPunch, May 15-17, 2009.
Porn Wars: One Step Forward, But Too Many Steps Backward in the Culture Wars, CounterPunch, May 22, 2009.
Cry, Hypocrite, Cry: Politicians & America’s Grand Tradition of Sex Scandals, CounterPunch, June 26, 2009.
Prison Rape as Policy: The Domestic War on Terror, CounterPunch, July 8, 2009.
Shouts from the Gallery: Sotomayor Hearing & the Culture Wars, CounterPunch, July 15, 2009.
Silent Slaughter: Sex Wars & Nation Building in Iraq, CounterPunch, August 28, 2009.
System Failure in the Garrido Case: Sex Offenders, Media Hype and the Bureaucracy, CounterPunch, September 18, 2009.
Bankrupt Morality: The Staying Power of Republican Sinners, CounterPunch, October 8, 2009.
America’s Failing Sexual Health: An Unacknowledged Crisis, CounterPunch, December 1, 2009.
10-Plus-1 Top Sports Sex Scandals: All’s Fair On & Off the Playing Field, CounterPunch, December 4, 2009.
Sexual Politics in the Age of Obama: A Year 1 Assessment, CounterPunch, December 22, 2009.

2008

The Great Disappearing Act, CounterPunch, January 1, 2008.
Playing the Race Card: Barack Obama, Love Across the Race Line and Political Dirty Tricks, Counterpunch, February 27, 2008.
Rape as an Instrument of Total War: Women, Rape & Modernity’s Self-Negation, CounterPunch, April 4, 2008.
The New Texas Two-Step: Polygamy & State Regulation of Sexual Life, CounterPunch, April 19, 2008.
Sexual Terrorism: The Sadistic Side of Bush’s War on Terror, CounterPunch, May 13, 2008.
The Great Disappearing Act: 2008 Presidential Candidates & the Politics of Sex, CounterPunch, June 23, 2008.
Looking for Safe Harbor: Teen Prostitution in America, August 2-3, 2008.
The Culture Wars Are Over: But Culture Warriors Still Terrorize America, CounterPunch August 23-24, 2008.
The GOP’s Outed All-Stars, CounterPunch, August 29, 2008.
One Billion Pills Later: The Viagra Decade & the Crisis of Masculinity, CounterPunch, September 20, 2008.
The Great Fear: The Sexual Politics of Sarah Palin, CounterPunch, September 27, 2008.
A New Sexual Agenda: Nine Proposals for President-Elect Obama & the New Democratic Congress to End the Culture Wars, CounterPunch, November 28, 2008.

2007

The Teen Abstinence-Only Crusade: Bush’s Domestic Sex Policy, CounterPunch, January 12, 2007.
Pay-to-Play: The Double-Life of Prostitution in America, CounterPunch, January 27, 2007.
To Cut or Not to Cut: Male Circumcision in America, CounterPunch, March 2, 2007
An American Obituary: Anne Nicole Smith and the Exploitation of Nature, CounterPunch, March 24-25, 2007.
The New Disappeared: Sex Offenders, Civil Confinement & the Resurrection of Evil, CounterPunch, May 10, 2007.
The Hidden Cost of War: American Women Warriors & the War on Terror, CounterPunch, June 23-24, 2007.
Moral Hypocrisy, Yet Again: The Christian Right, Sexual Scandal & the Sexual Pleasures of the Courtesan, CounterPunch, July 17, 2007.
America’s Top Ten Political Sex Scandals: James Buchanan, the First Gay President, and Other Tales of Sex and Power in Washington, CounterPunch, August 1, 2007.
The Case of Genarlow Wilson: Racism, Justice & Age-of-Consent Laws in America, CounterPunch, August 14, 2007.
The GOP Outed All-Stars: The Forced Freeing of Gay Men from the Republican Closet, CounterPunch, August 29, 2007
Slugger Sex: Athletes, Violence & Male Sexuality, CounterPunch, September 22, 2007.
Women Warriors & the War on Terror, Z-magazine, October 1, 2007
Deviants on Parade: Folsom Street Fair & America’s 4^th Sexual Revolution, CounterPunch, October 20, 2007.
The Scarlet Hypocrites: Republican Politicians, Christian Conservatives & the All-American Sin of Adultery, CounterPunch, November 17, 2007.
Senior Sex: The Real Sex Life of Aging Americans, CounterPunch, November 24, 2007.
Porn in the Closet: Mitt Romney’s Secret Life as a Pornographer, CounterPunch, December 20, 2007.

2006

Bush’s Foreign Sex Policy: Imperialism’s Second Front, CounterPunch, December 22, 2006.
Made in China: The Sex-Toy Invasion, CounterPunch, December 2, 2006.
Those Who Preach in Glass Houses: Ted Haggard & the Eclipse of Evangelical Fury, CounterPunch, November 15, 2006.
Perversions of Power: Mark Foley and the Bush Administration, CounterPunch, October 27, 2006.
Sex Panic on Capitol Hill: Rep. Foley & the Politics of Sex in America, CounterPunch, October 10, 2006.

Irreguators v FCC: the Trial Begins

On January 17^th,the Irregulators will argue before the U.S. District Court in Washington, DC, that the FCC has facilitated one of the largest accounting scandals in American history. The FCC is a corporate-industry captured government agency that has stopped working for the public’s best interests. Read more.

Exonerate the Innocent; Incarcerate the Guilty

Three innocent men — Alfred Chestnut, Ransom Watkins and Andrew Stewart – were recently fully exonerated and released from a Maryland prison after spending 36 years in jail for a murder they did not commit. Read more.

Despair in America

Americans are suffering and a sense of despair is deepening throughout the country. Why is this not an issue in the 2020 presidential election. Read more.