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North Carolina GOP Lawmaker Calls For Bringing Back Public Hangings, Starting With Abortion Providers
By Marie Diamond | Think Progress
Study Links Low IQ and Conservative Ideology
By Staff | AlterNet
Has Citizens United Created a "Nightmare" for the GOP Establishment?
By Booman | Booman Tribune
Watch: How Some Activists Celebrated the Citizens United Anniversary? Dollar Signs Covering the Supreme Court
By Kristen Gwynne | AlterNet
Carrying the Stories of Women Facing Violence in Mexico, Honduras, and Guatemala
By Veronica Arreola | Nobel Women's Initiative
46 Million Americans Live in Poverty -- So Why Isn't Anybody Saying the P Word?
By Isaiah J. Poole | Campaign for America's Future
Obama: "Taxing Millionaires Has Nothing to do With Envy, and Everything to do with Math"
By Kristen Gwynne | AlterNet
Romney Called "Blind Trust" Defense He Used Last Night an "Old-Age Ruse" in 1994
By Jed Lewinson | Daily Kos
Apple's Ridiculous Response to Labor Criticisms
By Kristen Gwynne | AlterNet
Twitter Announces Censorship
By Kristen Gwynne | AlterNet
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Covering Romney? Some Tips for Journalists Tracking Mitt’s Changing Position on “Personhood”
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Are You Still Eating Butterball Turkeys?
Martha Rosenberg
Woman Who Would Say that Air Force Chief of Staff is Part of a New Jewish Holocaust to Speak at Air Force Base
Chris Rodda
Hansel and Gretel and Israel/Palestine
Tikkun Daily
The Sound of Silence: Where Is the Anti-Choice Outcry Over North Carolina’s Forced Sterilization of Women of Color?
RH Reality Check
Arizona Unbound: Educators, Librarians, Writers, Civil Rights Groups and Congressional Hispanic Caucus Launch National Actions
jeffbiggers
Gingrich In Video Which Claims Constitution Is Based On The Old Testament
B. E. Wilson
Being Pro-Choice is About Much More Than Just the Right to Abortion Care
RH Reality Check
In Latin America and the Caribbean, Unmet Need for Contraception and Unsafe Abortion Are Widespread
RH Reality Check
Redefining Chutzpah: More Bad Ideas to Burden Women
RH Reality Check
Are the Koch brothers teaching you? [VIDEO]
Robert Greenwald
Fukushima Update: Why We Should (Still) Be Worried
Russ Baker, WhoWhatWhy.com
Emblematic of 1 Percenters, Cooper Tire Punk’d Workers
Leo Gerard
Students Step Up Tucson Walkouts: Protest School District Folly and Mexican American Studies Banishment
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If We Clear Out Our Ideological Cobwebs, Perhaps Americans Can Have a Long Overdue Discussion
Earon Davis
German Radiation Expert: Fukushima “Atomic Bomb” Possible
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Strange case of Kentucky soldier charged with espionage
Christopher Hignite
Petition to Stop Foreclosures, Hold Banks Accountable!
danbacher
The Great Rice Shortage
E. B. Klassen
Occupy Wall Street? No Problem!
Jacob Freeze
Occupy everything…but after the anger, then what?
Pat Thomas
Remember, Joe, There Is No Tea Party
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A real Social Network.
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Right-Wing Lunacy: The Shameless Lies Conservative Media Tell Their Audience
By Michael Lind / Salon
DNA Database of Men Who Pay for Sex? The Strange Push to Make Cops Collect DNA from Suspected Johns
By Melissa Gira Grant
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The 5 Most Offensive Celebrity Endorsements
By Lauren Kelley
AlterNet
Time to Break Up Zombie Bank of America?
By Sarah Jaffe
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The Truth Behind Why High Calorie Chef Paula Dean Is Pushing Diabetes Drug
By Brad Jacobson
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CULTURE
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Top 5 Reasons You Should Run to See Oscar Favorite 'The Artist'
Alison Pace / AlterNet
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Nukespeak: The Selling of Nuclear Technology from the Manhattan Project to Fukushima
Richard C. Bell, Stephen Hilgartner, Rory O'Connor / AlterNet
GENDER
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The Invisible War of Military Women
Holly Kearl / Ms. Blog
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Can a Strong Coalition of Pot Activists Define Medical Marijuana Regulation -- And Avoid the Feds?
Phillip Smith / Drug War Chronicle
BOOKS
Robert Greenwald and Reporter Michael Hastings Take on the Wild and Terrifying Inside Story of America's War Machine
Robert Greenwald / AlterNet
ELECTION 2012
The 10 Most Brazen Lies Offered By the Remaining GOP Presidential Hopefuls
Joshua Holland / AlterNet
Why We Should Thank Stephen Colbert: 3 Ways the Culture-Jammer Exposes Our Rotten Corporate State
Scott Thill / AlterNet
ECONOMY
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America’s Dead Zones: From Dodge City to Durango, Why Does Prosperity Pass So Many Places By?
Louis Ferleger / AlterNet
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Gingrich Can't Find His Lucky Race Card; Loses Edge in Fla. Debate and Polls
Adele M. Stan / AlterNet
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Do Harsh Pot Laws Create a Dangerous Drinking Culture? 5 Reasons to Get Stoned Instead of Drunk
Kristen Gwynne / AlterNet
Hot News and Views
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Why Climate Change Will Make You Love Government
Christian Parenti / TomDispatch.com
Apple's Insanely Profitable and Arguably Destructive Made-in-China Quarter
Andrew Leonard / Salon
NEWS & POLITICS
Memo to the News Media: Newt Didn't Want an 'Open Relationship' -- He Just Wanted to Cheat
Theresa "Darklady" Reed / AlterNet
OCCUPY WALL STREET
Stung by Bad PR, City Officials Adopting New Tactics to Suppress Occupy Oakland
Susie Cagle / AlterNet
ELECTION 2012
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The 10 Most Racist Moments of the GOP Primary (So Far)
Chauncey DeVega / AlterNet
ACTIVISM & VISION
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Apple Driving Workers to Threaten Mass Suicide? The Pathologies of the Modern Corporation
Robert Cruickshank / AlterNet
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Don't Let Occupy Be Occupied: 6 Ways to Fight the Creep to Institutionalize
Harriet Barlow / AlterNet
SEX & RELATIONSHIPS
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Why Evangelicals Don't Care When Rich White Conservatives Defile Marriage
Amanda Marcotte / AlterNet
CULTURE
Paula Deen: Populist Cook or Diabetic Scam Artist?
Lynn Parramore / AlterNet
NEWS & POLITICS
9 Crucially Important Issues Obama Ignored in His State of the Union
Nomi Prins / AlterNet
PERSONAL HEALTH
The Fascinating Scientific Reason Why "Money Doesn't Buy Happiness"
David McRaney / You Are Not So Smart
NEWS & POLITICS
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How Newt Gingrich Shamelessly Feeds the Fears and Egos of White Conservatives -- and Why That May Win Him the GOP Nomination
Joshua Holland / AlterNet
NEWS & POLITICS
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Obama's State of the Union Plays to His Base -- But Not Everything Was Worth Cheering
Adele M. Stan / AlterNet
EDUCATION
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Will the Young Rise Up and Fight Their Indentured Servitude to the Student Loan Industry?
Bruce E. Levine / AlterNet
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5 Republican Lies About Income Inequality
David Morris / On the Commons
Mitch Daniels' State of the Union Response Shows GOP Priority: Beating Up on Workers
Josh Eidelson / AlterNet
ECONOMY
Why Does Mitt Romney Want to Keep His Tax Returns From the Bain Years Under Wraps?
Dave Johnson / AlterNet
WORLD
America Has Become the World's Arms Dealer -- But at What Cost to Ourselves and the World?
William Astore / TomDispatch.com
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3 Ways Conservative Christianity's Obsessions Promote Abortions
Valerie Tarico / Away Point
NEWS & POLITICS
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How Right-Wing Libertarians, John Birchers and Conspiracy Freaks Are Trying to Hijack the Occupy Movement
Eric Johnson / AlterNet
SEX & RELATIONSHIPS
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Is Gay a Choice? The Science Behind Actress Cynthia Nixon's Controversial Remarks
Tracy Clark-Flory / Salon
WATER
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3 Ways Laws Are Stacked to Favor Fracking Companies -- And How We Can Change That
Peter Montague / AlterNet
ELECTION 2012
Will the Mitt/Newt Slugfest Boost the Occupy Movement?
Lynn Parramore / AlterNet
Andrew Sullivan is Right: Obama Has Governed as a Conservative
Guy T. Saperstein / AlterNet
5 Biggest Lies About the Right-Wing Corporate-Backed War on Our Schools
Kristin Rawls / AlterNet
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Obama's Favorite Wall Streeters
Bill Moyers, Michael Winship / Moyers & Company
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Eyewitness Identification Has 50% Error Rate? How We Throw People in Prison Based on False ID
Patricia J. Williams / The Nation
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While Republicans Play Politics Over Food Stamps, New Film Focuses on Hunger in America
Amy Goodman, Raj Patel / Democracy Now!
SEX & RELATIONSHIPS
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Can Infidelity Make a Relationship ... Stronger?
Tracy Clark-Flory / Salon
Drones for the Paparazzi? How Unmanned Flying Machines Could Invade Your Life
Becky Hogge / Comment Is Free
BELIEF
Once Again, Believers Have it Wrong: Atheists Don't Just Want Sex, Drugs, and Lack of Morality
Adam Lee / AlterNet
Jobs Won't Come Back to America Until the Government Pushes Greedy Corporate Executives to Invest at Home
Robert Reich / Robert Reich's Blog
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What if Citizens United Actually United the Citizens?
Ilyse Hogue / The Nation
NEWS & POLITICS
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Campaign to Recall Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker Will Be Wild Card In 2012 Presidential Race
Steven Rosenfeld / AlterNet
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Is Alcoholics Anonymous Too White?
Jeff Deeney / The Fix
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Americans are Less Nationalistic than Jingoist Politicians Think
Lawrence Wittner / TruthOut.org
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