What Should Bernie Do? | The Selling of Trump Misogyny | Drugs Are Not the Problem

TODAY'S TOP STORIES - April 30, 2016 How Bernie Sanders Can Squander—or Expand—His Victory By Joe Conason, AlterNet It's a critical moment: Sanders has accomplished much more than what America expected this election season, but he now stands at a precipice. READ MORE» How Trump Sold Us His Brand of Misogyny By Giorgio Selvaggio, The Good Men Project How "The Donald" is like that unrelenting creep on a dating site, and what he's offering men in America. READ MORE» The Bizarre Oklahoma Rape Law: It Might Get Fixed By Mary Elizabeth Williams, Salon But until then, Oklahoma law still doesn't recognize it as possible to give oral sex against your will if you're intoxicated. READ MORE» The Surprising People on Both Sides of the Aisle Flirting With Prison Reform—and Then Backtracking By John Ehrenreich, AlterNet When Ted Cruz, Charles Koch, the Clintons and Bernie Sanders consider fixing a problem, things get interesting. READ MORE» When It Comes to Addiction, Drugs Are Not Really the Problem By Stanton Peele, AlterNet What do the 1994 Crime Bill and our current heroin scare have in common? Blaming social and human problems on drugs. READ MORE» Donald Trump Thinks He Can Win Over Disaffected Bernie Sanders Supporters By Sophia Tesfaye, Salon Campaign manager Corey Lewandowski says Trump is ready to bring into the fold anyone who is still feeling the Bern. READ MORE» The 10 Craziest Right-Wing Attacks on Beyoncé By Brian Tashman, Right Wing Watch From a CIA plot to eat your kids' brains to demonizing Sasha Fierce to Ku Klux Klan tactics, the ridiculous conspiracy theories on the meaning of Queen Bey keep on coming. READ MORE» Yikes: KKK Grand Imperial Wizard Endorses Trump—'a Lot of What He Believes, We Believe' By Lorraine Berry, Raw Story You won't believe how seriously the Ku Klux Klan thinks its endorsement is a boon to candidates this election season. READ MORE» Where the Porn Stars Aren't Just Hot—They're Also Ostracized and Exploited By Natalia Antonova, Open Democracy These porn stars may have a worldwide reputation on the web, but they enjoy little in terms of rights and respect offline. READ MORE» How Colorblind Rhetoric and Multicultural Ideology Made America More Racist By Ibram X. Kendi, Nation Books Racists in the United States only embrace diversity and multiculturalism in name. In practice, they enforce cultural standards. READ MORE» Is Your Sex and Relationships Language Inadvertently Communicating Misogyny? By Chelsea Cristene, Role Reboot "Tap that," "virginity loss" and other more surprising linguistic patterns cause great harm. READ MORE» Racism and Sexism in Today's Advertising World Are a Lot Like the Mad Men Era By Martha Rosenberg, AlterNet Even in 2016, racism and sexism are alive and well in advertising.  READ MORE» You are subscribed as: bsamad2007.adnan@blogger.com SUPPORT ALTERNET | CONTACT US | PRIVACY POLICY | UNSUBSCRIBE © 2015 Independent Media Institutes All Rights Reserved 1881 Harmon Street, Berkeley, CA 94703