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Our Biggest Enviro Threat? 77 ALEC Bills in 2013 Advance a Big Oil, Big Ag Agenda
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Brendan Fischer
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PR Watch
Fox News Contributor Fumes "How Dare" McCain Worry About Immigrants Who Die Crossing the U.S. Border
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Salvatore Colleluori
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Media Matters for America
Why I'm Going to March on Chevron this Saturday
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Rebecca Solnit
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Truthout
5 Messages About Public Education That Don't Sell (and Ones That Will)
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Jeff Bryant
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Campaign for America's Future
The Top 5 Most Islamophobic Reactions to Huma Abedin
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Rod Bastanmehr
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AlterNet
Overkill: Armed Agents Raid Wisconsin Animal Shelter; Kill Baby Deer Named Giggles
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Janet Allon
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AlterNet
Uruguay House Passes Historic Marijuana Legalization Bill
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Phillip Smith
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Drug War Chronicle
Be Careful What You Google: Music Writer Says SWAT Team Raided House Based on Harmless On-Line Browsing
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Natasha Lennard
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Salon
Caught: 15-Year-Old Texas Female Inmate Has Video Evidence of Jailer Raping Her
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Cameron Langford
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Courthouse News
Gay Marriage Approval Continues Sweep Across the Country
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Rod Bastanmehr
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AlterNet
George Zimmerman: Armed and Stopped for Speeding in Texas Is Allowed to Keep His Gun
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Rod Bastanmehr
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AlterNet
Watch: Stephen Colbert Helpfully Explains Catfight Between Rand Paul and Chris Christie
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Janet Allon
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AlterNet
Breaking: Russia Grants Snowden 1-Year Asylum
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Rod Bastanmehr
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AlterNet
Fox's Stuart Varney Flirts With Idea Of Letting Immigrants and Their Children Starve
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Solange Uwimana
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Media Matters for America
Why Is No One Fighting for the Voting Rights of Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners?
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Harry J. Enten
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The Guardian
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What’s a Wall Street Billionaire Facing Indictment To Do? Party On, Of Course!

Lynn Stuart Parramore
AlterNet
The Fed is going after Steven A. Cohen's firm, the legendary SAC Capital Advisors. But a Wall Street titan has little to fear.

10 of the Worst Terror Attacks by Extreme Christians and Far-Right White Men

Alex Henderson
AlterNet
Most of the terrorist activity in the U.S. in recent years has not come from Muslims, but from radical Christianists, white supremacists and far-right militia groups.

GOP Meltdown: Senate Leader Faces Nightmare Election While Republicans in the House Defeat Themselves

Steven Rosenfeld
AlterNet
Kentuckians are tired of their obstructionist U.S. senator.

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Does Climate Change Contribute to Human Violence?

Kristen Gwynne
AlterNet
A study of regions across the globe suggests climate change creates more than environmental problems.

Are Humans Hard-Wired for Racial Prejudice?

Robert M. Sapolsky
Los Angeles Times
The answer is more complicated than it would seem. Maybe there's hope for the human race after all.
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Amazon Is Worse Than Walmart

WATCH: Retired Police Captain Destroys Every Drug War Myth

Stephen Colbert Shows how Sexual Abuser Mayor Bob Filner Is the Real Victim

Proof the Feds Are Tracking Your Car

O'Reilly's Advice to Solve All Problems in Black Communities: Peer Pressure

Kristen Gwynne / AlterNet

Exxon Receives Slap on the Wrist for Poisoning NYC Water for Decades

Chris Fry / Courthouse News

Why Elites Want to Mask the Suffering of Poor Whites

Chauncey DeVega / Daily Kos

10 Million Americans Have Had Their Homes Taken Away by the Banks -- Often at the Point of a Gun

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How to Have a Fun, Healthy Sex Life Free of Anxiety and Hang-Ups

Uruguay Braced to Become First Country to Legalize Marijuana

Debtors' Prisons Are Alive and Well in America

3 Shocking Revelations from NSA's Most Terrifying Program Yet

Steven Rosenfeld / AlterNet

Could Porn Be Censored in America?

David Rosen / AlterNet

Be Careful What You Google: Music Writer Says SWAT Team Raided House Based on Harmless On-Line Browsing

Natasha Lennard / Salon

Caught: 15-Year-Old Texas Female Inmate Has Video Evidence of Jailer Raping Her

Where Are All the Women Atheists? 6 Places You Can Find Them

What Passes for Education In America Is Often Just Indoctrination

10 Things Your Org Can Do Right Now To Give the Progressive Movement a Chance to Win

Overkill: Armed Agents Raid Wisconsin Animal Shelter; Kill Baby Deer Named Giggles

Janet Allon / AlterNet

Watch: Stephen Colbert Helpfully Explains Catfight Between Rand Paul and Chris Christie

Janet Allon / AlterNet

Why Can’t Hemp Get You High?

Erik G / The 420 Times

I Spent Years in Solitary Without a Window, Listening to Grown Men Scream and Cry

The Top 5 Most Islamophobic Reactions to Huma Abedin

Why Life in America Can Literally Drive You Insane

Bombshell: Plutocrats Brazenly Collude to Hurt State Economies and Screw Working People

Lynn Stuart Parramore / AlteNet  

The Internet As We Know It Is On Its Deathbed

Steven Rosenfeld / AlterNet

Is Widespread Drug Use to Thank for the Inventions of the Classical World?

Daniel Luzer / Pacific Standard

The Madness of the Willful Destruction of Our Dependable Popular Way of Life

John Pilger / AlterNet

GOP Nihilism Fully Revealed in Current Paralysis

DEA to Pay $4.1 Million to Man Forgotten in Cell

Rumbles of Change in the Vatican: Pope Signals Openness to Gay Priests

9 Wack Things White Guys Say To Deny Their Asian Fetish

My Little Future iPad Addicts

Jackie Ashton / Salon

Why Growing Numbers of the Baby Boomer Generation Are Turning to Marijuana

Victoria Kim / The Fix

Must-See Clip: What Rep. Steve King Has In Mind When He Hears 'Latino Outreach'

Alana de Hinojosa / AlterNet

The “Free Market” Takes Its Pound Of Flesh, But Never From The Failed CEO

The Real Story of Detroit's Collapse: Banks Count, People Don't

Last Week in Poverty: Food Policy, EITC Expansion and Financial Security for All

Why Tom Friedman Is the Ayn Rand of Our Times

Bradley Manning Found Guilty On Most Counts, Acquitted of 'Aiding the Enemy' -- Faces Over 100 Years in Prison

Alex Kane / AlterNet

Let's Face It, Most of Us Love Cheap Clothes -- and Don't Think Much About Whether Child Slave Labor Made It So Cheap

Gethin Chamberlain / The Guardian

Noam Chomsky: The State Fears Its Own People

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Florida Cops Shoot Unarmed Black Man In His Mother’s Driveway

Rebecca Leber / Think Progress  

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10 Worst Fox News Interviews of the Decade

Big Macs Would Only Cost 68 Cents More If McDonald's Paid Workers Double

Fossil Fuels’ Deadly Summer and the Growing Resistance

Arkansas High School Arming Teachers With Guns

Alex Kane / AlterNet

$7.25 an Hour? US Fast Food Workers Walk Out in Organized Strike Against Low Wages

Adam Gabbatt / The Guardian

Bill Moyers and Rep. John Lewis: 50 Years After the March on Washington, America Is a Long Way from True Equality

Bill Moyers, John Lewis / BillMoyers.com

Rich Countries Are Betting on 3rd World Famine

Obama Admin. Deported More Than 13,000 Unaccompanied Mexican Minors in 2012

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