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
2012
- Pregnant Women Are NOT Incubators: Its Time to End the Right’s War Against Women. CounterPunch, December 28-30, 2012. AUL and ALEC have turned pregnant women into incubators
- The Spy State Tightens its Grip. AlterNet, December 24, 2012. Americans are paying an ever-increasing price to maintain the spy state.
- Ho, Ho, Ho X-Mas Shoppers: Santa as Big Brother. CounterPunch, December 21-23, 2012. This Christmas season, you are probably being tracked when shopping.
- Police Have the Scary Capability to Track Wherever You’re Driving. AlterNet, December 6, 2012. License-plate reading technology’s daw dropping capabilities are already deployed across America.
- Looking Beyond Hurricane Sandy: America’s Failing Telecom Infrastructure. CounterPunch, November 15, 2012. Infrastructure failures due to Hurricane Sandy expose deeper problems of the communications system.
- The Return of Infidelity: The Last Frontier of the Culture Wars? CounterPunch, November 12, 2012. What the extramarital scandals at the CIA and Lockheed Martin tell us about the Christian right’s culture wars.
- How Telecoms Sell Your Private Info to the Highest Bidder. AlterNet, November 8, 2012. Wireless providers are collecting and reselling your usage data — a lot of what they do remains secret.
- Inside the Gulag: Rape in America’s Prisons. CounterPunch, October 12-14, 2012.
Nearly 210,000 prisoners are sexually abused each year in America’s prisons. - The Unbelievable Ways Schools Are Now Monitoring Children — Even When They’re Eating. AlterNet, October 5, 2012.
The digital tracking and surveillance of school-aged kids is growing. - Passion, Perversion & Politics: The Folsom Street Fair and the 2012 Election. CounterPunch, October 5-7, 2012.
Today’s alternative “adult” sex scene is a $50 billion industry. - Is Privacy Dead?: 4 Government and Private Entities Conspiring to Track Everything You Do Online and Off. AlterNet, September 10, 2012.
The police-corporate surveillance “complex” is being consolidated, drawing ever-closer corporate tracking and government surveillance. - City at War, a review of Steven Jaffe’s New York at War: Four Centuries of Combat, Fear, and Intrigue in Gotham. The Brooklyn Rail, September 2012.
- The New White Slave Trade: The Truth About Sex Trafficking. CounterPunch, August 24-26, 2012.
How accurate is the 100,000-plus estimate of sex trafficking in the U.S.? - How Privacy in America Went Virtually Extinct in Just a Decade. AlterNet, August 21, 2012.
Unless we challenge the idea the we should concede our rights to protect our privacy, it’ll get even worse. - Why Our Phone Companies Are Threatened by Big Telecom Privatization, with Bruce Kushnick. AlterNet, July 26, 2012.
Consumers stand to lose big-time if the FCC and its corporate friends get their way. - The New Police Surveillance State: The Rising Price of Political Assembly. CounterPunch, July 31, 2012.
The coordinated role of federal and local law enforcement in restricting popular protest. - ALEC, Tech and the Telecom Wars: Killing America’s Telecom Utilities, with Bruce Kushnick. Huffington Post, July 24, 2012.
- What Secrets Is Your Cell Phone Company Telling the Government About You? AlterNet, July 11, 2012.
- Mass Arrests Likely at Political Conventions: 6 Historical Perspectives. AlterNet, July 5, 2012.
Clinton’s law designates political conventions National Special Security Events, a category of state security that virtually dooms the exercise of First Amendment Rights. - Obama’s Broadband Vision vs. the Communications Trust, with Bruce Kushnick. Huffington Post, June 25, 2012.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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?
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.
- MEDIA CURRENT: News & Analysis for Indie Makers — a column for Filmmaker magazine.