10 Dangerous Household Products You Should Never Use Again

Sustain Lane

Health and Wellness: Air fresheners, disinfectants, and cleaners found under your sink are more dangerous than you think.

Sarah Palin Is Not Crazy, She's Calculating (And Still More Dangerous Than People Think)

Melissa McEwan, Comment Is Free

PEEK: Palin is cut from the same cloth as our former president, who was similarly ridiculed and rejected by conservative leaders early on.

Three Reasons We Need an Economic Wake Up Call

Robert Kuttner, Huffington Post

Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace: Several events of the past week should be a wake-up call to the Obama administration. Bottom line: the medicine isn't working.

Robert McNamara Was Never Really in Touch with His Role in Causing Atrocity in Vietnam

Andrew Lam, New America Media

World: "When a man confesses yet cannot connect the horror he helped unleash with his own humanity, he is not to be trusted."

Why Iran's Turmoil Makes Me Want to Take to the Rooftops and Shout 'Allah-o-Akbar'!

Layli Shirani, AlterNet

World: Recently, I've found myself murmuring those words, Allah-o-Akbar -- God is great.

Howard Dean: "This Is Ridiculous. We're 60 Years Behind the Times" on Fixing Health Care

Joshua Holland, AlterNet

Health and Wellness: Progressive leader and health crusader Dean on what it's going to take to overhaul our health care system.

Why Is a Leading Feminist Organization Lending Its Name to Support Escalation in Afghanistan?

Sonali Kolhatkar, Mariam Rawi, AlterNet

Reproductive Justice and Gender: Waging war does not lead to the liberation of women anywhere -- even if you call soldiers "peacekeeping forces."

Taibbi's Scream: Stop the Political System That Has Let Goldman Sachs Fleece Us for 90 Years

Rob Johnson, AlterNet

The sordid story of how Goldman Sachs and Co. engineered bubbles in the economy and made a hefty profit.

It's the Right-Wingers Who Are Unloading the Harshest Critiques About Palin’s Bizarre Departure

Eric Boehlert, Media Matters for America

Media and Technology: The split among conservatives over who's to blame for Palin’s early exit from the national stage is breaking out into the airwaves.

The New Energy Bill May Create a 'Super Lobby' of Powerful Opposition

Teryn Norris, AlterNet

Environment: If we don't act now to strengthen the bill, it could create a "super lobby" that will diminish the possibility of achieving future reforms.

What's So Scary About Offering People the Option of a Public Health Plan?

Dean Baker, AlterNet

Health and Wellness: If the public plan is bad, then people will just stay with the options currently available in the private sector.

Ending Indefinite Detention is AlterNet's Top Take Action Campaign of the Week

Byard Duncan, AlterNet

Take Action: It's up to us to make sure that Obama does away with this horrid Bush administration legacy.

The Dark Side of Climate Change: It's Already Too Late, Cap and Trade Is a Scam, and Only the Few Will Survive

Alexander Zaitchik, AlterNet

Environment: Father of the Gaia Theory, James Lovelock says we can't stop climate change, but that humanity will continue in some smaller form.

Forbidden Israel: Sex and the Settlers

Ira Chernus, AlterNet

World: If the Israeli government and courts were adhering strictly to the law, the settlers would have been gone long ago.

Grand Illusion: The Myth of Voter Choice in a Two-Party Tyranny

Theresa Amato, The New Press

Politics: Third-party candidates are effectively shut out of the presidential race by the two major parties designed to squash the competition.

My First Abortion Party

Byard Duncan, AlterNet

Reproductive Justice and Gender: When I got the invite to a friend's abortion party, I thought it was a way to help her through a difficult decision. I was right and wrong.

Hunter Thompson Knew It Well: Robert McNamara's Vision for America Was Imperial and Elitist

Joe Costello, AlterNet

Politics: The death of Robert McNamara is a time to remember how dangerous the idea of technocrats running Washington has been.

We Are Only a Few Senators Away from Having Much Better Health Care

Paul Krugman, The New York Times

Health and Wellness: Fundamental health reform is now within reach. Obama and activists need to get those last "centrists" on board.

Promise Keepers: Christian Men's Movement Making a Comeback?

Bill Berkowitz, AlterNet

The Promise Keepers -- a conservative men's group -- is focusing on women, the poor and Jews.

Mississippi Pol Said to Be an Ally of Gov. Haley Barbour Addresses Infamous Racist Group

Heidi Beirich, SPLC's Hate Watch

Rights and Liberties: State Sen. Lydia Chassaniol speaks to the CCC, and admits membership to the organization.

Unemployed and on the Verge of Losing Everything: "I Don't Know How I'll Make It"

Rachel Neumann, AlterNet

Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace: Luz Guerra has already lost her job. Now she might lose her car, her home and her health insurance.

This Is Your Country on Drugs: How the DARE Generation Got High

Ryan Grim, Wiley

DrugReporter: Exclusive from new book shares the '80s generation's encounter with illicit drugs, and how they really caught on.

Meatless Mondays: Do Something Good for the Earth and Your Health

Kathy Freston, AlterNet

Immigration: A new campaign is focused on convincing the world not to eat chickens, pigs, and other animals -- just one day per week.

10 Commandments of the Anti-Christ: Mysterious "Guidestones" Madden Conspiracy Theorists and Christian Fundamentalists

Joseph Laycock, Religion Dispatches

Conspiracy theorists and fringe Christians think the mysterious Georgia stones signal the coming of a "New World Order."

Sarah Palin's Latest Crazy Move: Are Republicans a Danger to the Republic?

Robert Parry, Consortium News

Remember, this is the woman Republicans wanted to put a heart beat away from the Presidency. When did the GOP become so irresponsible?

Taibbi: New Secrecy Rule Lets Goldman Sachs Control Stock Prices Unmolested by Public Scrutiny

Daniel Tencer, Raw Story

Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace: The new rule means the public will no longer be able to tell if large investment banks are manipulating the stock market for their own gain.

Wildfires Are Linked to Global Warming -- But Media Obscure the Relationship

Sam Kornell, Miller-McCune Magazine

Environment: As climate change intensifies, wildfires are going to increase in the U.S. Publicizing the link could help drive home the danger of global warming.

Will the Tragedy of Michael Jackson's Life Be Inherited By His Kids?

Patricia J. Williams, The Nation

Media and Technology: Jackson's fame and fortune ensured he had few barriers whatever fancy seized him -- including his made-to-order kids.

Sarah Palin Resigns: Is She Fleeing Scandal?

Tana Ganeva, AlterNet

PEEK: What is behind Palin's resignation from office?

Michael Pollan: We Are Headed Toward a Breakdown in Our Food System

David Beers, The Tyee

Environment: Pollan gives a glimpse at the current state of food politics inside the White House and within his own home.

This July 4th, Rebel and Agitate for Change

Jim Hightower, AlterNet

Agitators created America, and it's their feisty spirit and outright rebelliousness that we celebrate on our national holiday.

Rolling Stone Expose Declares Goldman Sachs Behind Every Market Crash Since 1920s

Daniel Tencer, Raw Story

Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace: Matt Taibbi explains how the company created market bubbles and then profited from the crash that followed.

"Deliver Us From Evil": The Amorality of the Catholic Church

Greta Christina, Greta Christina's Blog

The basic hierarchy and theology of the Catholic Church is a recipe for the abuse of power.

Breadline USA: Why People Are Going Hungry in the Land of Plenty

Sasha Abramsky, PoliPoint Press

Politics: America's poor are being priced out of a market flush with excess eatables. It's an abomination we can fix.

Summer Blockbusters: Why Do We Insist on Watching Really Bad Movies?

Sameer Pandya, Miller-McCune.com

Media and Technology: Maybe they are more like summer flings -- despite all the signs that should stay far away, you fall intensely anyway.