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GRITtv: Sarah Posner: Civil Rights For Fetuses at CPAC

At last week's Conservative Political Action Conference, the tea party ruled. "Saving freedom" was the theme of the conference, and the tea party mojo -- screeds against imagined socialist policies and the supposed tyranny of liberalism -- effortlessly overran old school small government conservatism to solidify the tea party's position as the movement's reigning force. ... But there is one piece of the old conservative coalition that is still trying to find its way in the tea party upheaval: the anti-abortion movement ...

GRITtv: February 22, 2010

Seth Wessler joins us, along with Irasema Garza, president of Legal Momentum, Wanda Fossett with Community Voices Heard, and Carmen Cordero, welfare rights activist with the Hartford-based group Vecinos Unidos. They discuss food stamps, poverty, and why this might be the best opportunity we have to rebuild the social safety net.

GRITtv: Sarah Palin: Sex, Lies & Book Deals

Sarah Palin's "Going Rogue: An American Life" comes out Tuesday, and she doesn't appear likely to fade from public prominence anytime soon. Pundits and political observers wrote her off after the Republican ticket's loss in 2008 and again after her rather unconventional exist from the Alaska governorship, but Palin remains popular with the Republican base and has demonstrated her ability to drive the discourse, whether it's her Facebook post about "death panels" or jumping into the race in New York's 23rd district.

GRITtv: Nov. 16, 2009

Sarah Palin's "Going Rogue" comes out Tuesday, and the corporate media have been all Palin, all the time. Richard Kim, author of "Going Rouge," Rebecca Traister, Max Blumenthal and Shannyn Moore discuss why Palin just won't go away and what it is about her that keeps people coming back for more. Democracy Now!'s Amy Goodman joins Laura to talk about her new book, "Breaking the Sound Barrier," making independent media, and her struggles with the health care system while dealing with her mother's recent illness. Sen.

GRITtv: The F Word: Stupak is a Step Back

The House passed its version of health-care legislation Saturday night by a vote of 220 to 215 after the approval of an amendment which amounts to a not-very-back door abortion ban for everyone but the very rich. It's sexist, it's classist, it goes well beyond the heinous Hyde Amendment ban on public funding for abortion--and it passed with the support of 64 Democrats, roughly a quarter of the caucus. The House move had less to do with majority than it had to do with theocracy.

GRITtv: Nov. 9, 2009

Veteran's Day is this week, and the shootings at Fort Hood this week brought to the forefront many questions about soldiers and military personnel: how are soldiers surviving the wars, and readjusting to life at home? What are we doing to help them, and is it enough?

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