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Joshua Holland Talks to Naomi Klein, Sarah Posner and Dean Baker on the AlterNet Radio Hour
By Joshua Holland | AlterNet
San Francisco Police Department Releases 'It Gets Better' Video
By Tara Lohan | AlterNet
Occupy Protesters Mic-Check Palin During CPAC Speech
By Adele M. Stan | AlterNet
Apple, Accustomed to Profits and Praise, Faces Outcry for Labor Practices at Chinese Factories
By Amy Goodman, Juan Gonzalez | Democracy Now!
Could Santorum Actually Beat Romney? And Would the Obama Campaign be Ready?
By Steve M. | Booman Tribune
Bill Moyers: The Economy Has Been Engineered to Screw Over Millennials (With an AlterNet Shoutout!)
By Staff | AlterNet
Maher: Conservatives Are the Ones Dividing the Country
By Sarah Seltzer | AlterNet
In Kansas, Is Catholic Church Trying to Destroy A Victim's Advocates Organization?
By Julie Cain | Ms. Magazine Blog
Obama vs. the Concern Trolls on Nonsense "Religious Liberty" Issue
By Digby | Hullabaloo
At CPAC, Santorum Surges Despite Idiotic Claims; Romney Poses as 'Severe' Conservative; Gingrich Makes War on GOP
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Falling Between the Cracks: Why Abortion Funds Exist and How You Can Help Them Help Women
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What the Koch brothers say online but won’t say under oath
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The Mammogram Diversion: Is Komen Laying the Groundwork to Reject Planned Parenthood Proposals?
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America’s Failed Mole-by-Mole Trade Policy
Leo Gerard
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An Apology, But Not A Reversal, From the Susan G. Komen Foundation
RH Reality Check
If We Can Stop the Keystone Pipeline, We Can Stop Mountaintop Removal Mining in Appalachia
jeffbiggers
New York City: Still The Marijuana Arrest Capital Of The World
Paul Armentano
Susan G. Komen: Can You Trust a Breast Cancer Organization Whose Staff and Board Members Lie About Breast Cancer?
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If We Clear Out Our Ideological Cobwebs, Perhaps Americans Can Have a Long Overdue Discussion
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German Radiation Expert: Fukushima “Atomic Bomb” Possible
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Petition to Stop Foreclosures, Hold Banks Accountable!
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By Lauren Kelley / AlterNet
How Team Obama, the GOP, and Tea Partiers Are All Intruding on Your Rights
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Will Frustrated Moms and Cops End the Drug War?
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Why Did Whitney Die? How Double Consciousness Robs Black America of Its Artists
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WORLD
Why Was No One Punished for America's "My Lai" in Iraq?
John Tirman / AlterNet
ECONOMY
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Runaway Greed Is Destroying America: Should There Be a Lid on How Much Someone Can Make?
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Conservatism Thrives on Low Intelligence and Poor Information
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FOOD
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Have Bees Become Canaries In the Coal Mine? Why Massive Bee Dieoffs May Be a Warning About Our Own Health
Jill Richardson / AlterNet
ELECTION 2012
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Why Novelist Elinor Lipman is Tweeting a Political Poem a Day Until the Election
Alison Pace / AlterNet
ECONOMY
Spitzer: All the Right Reasons for Raising Capital Gains Taxes
Eliot Spitzer / Slate
Occupy vs. Monsanto: Activists, Farmers Fight the Corporation They Fear Will Take Over All America's Crops
Anna Lekas Miller / AlterNet
OCCUPY WALL STREET
My Journey from Iraq to Working on Wall Street to Occupying Wall Street
Derek McGee / The Nation
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Why MIA Was Right to Give America the Finger at the Super Bowl
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5 Right-Wing Governors Gutting Schools to Fund Prisons, Tax Breaks for the Rich...And a Bible Theme Park
Sarah Jaffe / AlterNet
VISIONS
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Why Going 'Back To Normal' Is No Longer An Option for the American Economy -- And Where We're Headed Now
Sara Robinson / AlterNet
ECONOMY
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Telecom Rip-Off: The Hidden Fees in Your Wireless and Phone Bills
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ECONOMY
Charles Murray's New Book 'Coming Apart' Shamelessly Blames the Victims of Our Economic Collapse
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The New Culture War: How Right-Wing Politicos Scare Their Constituents to Death
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ACTIVISM
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Black Power Mixtape: The Civil Rights Battle Ignored by the U.S. Media
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TEA PARTY AND THE RIGHT
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ECONOMY
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DRUGS
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BELIEF
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Why Young People Are Fleeing Conservative Evangelicalism
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Ellen Stands Up to Right-Wing Gay Bashing Group
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Obama’s Unprecedented War on Whistleblowers
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Do We Need a More Nuanced View of Sexuality?
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iEmpire: Apple's Sordid Business Practices Are Even Worse Than You Think
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GENDER
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Knocked Up: Republican Presidential Candidates' Plan for American Women
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DRUGS
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Why is the Obama Administration Suddenly Fixated on Stomping out Medical Pot?
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How Rick Santorum Stokes Race and Class Anxieties to Win Unlikely Primary Victories
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FOOD
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OCCUPY WALL STREET
Black Bloc: The Cancer in Occupy
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IMMIGRATION
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