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Wednesday, May 16th, 2012
By Dave Johnson, AlterNet
This is the story of what happens when an average couple is up against a giant, wealthy, powerful bank.
By June Carbone, Naomi Cahn, AlterNet
Those who think and talk like Rush Limbaugh have championed policies that wreak havoc on the family lives of working Americans.
By Les Leopold, AlterNet
JP Morgan Chase is part of an entwined system of too-big-to-fail institutions that are ripping us off.
By Michael Lind, Salon
Since World War II, mainstream conservatives have opposed every expansion of personal liberty in the United States.
By Dennis Draeger, AlterNet
From new iPhone cases to new body parts, here's the good, the bad and the grotesque of this new technology.
By Ilyse Hogue, The Nation
Saverin exemplifies the spoiled 1 percenter who erodes the fabric of the country that afforded such opportunity by not paying back the investment America made in him.
By Ingrid Monson, Carol J. Oja, AlterNet
The vital and visionary Center for Black Music Research at Columbia College in Chicago is threatened with destruction.
By Noah Brand, The Good Men Project
The glories of DIY porn.
By Gabriel Schivone, IPS News
Students are making an impact in Arizona, ground zero for the fight against xenophobia.
Tuesday, May 15th, 2012
By Mac McClelland, Mother Jones
My brief, backbreaking, rage-inducing, low-paying, dildo-packing time inside the online-shipping machine.
By Chauncey DeVega, AlterNet
Mitt Romney is a bully. And he's just right for the GOP.
By Tara Lohan, AlterNet
A new film provides a much-needed wake-up call for Americans: Our false sense of water abundance may be our great undoing.
By Alex Pareene, Salon
JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon should explain why a megabank that accidentally loses billions is good for the economy.
By Paul Buchheit, Buzzflash at TruthOut
The golden door on the Statue of Liberty seems to have an invisible hand holding it shut.
By Ellen Brown, TruthOut.org
Congress has removed nearly every consumer protection from student loans, including bankruptcy protections, statutes of limitations and truth in lending requirements.
By Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch.com
The CIA’s global drone assassination campaign has long been a bragging point in Washington, even if it couldn’t officially be discussed directly before, say, Congress.
By Amy Levine, RH Reality Check
How to remember what made you fall in love in the first place and have as much fun as when you first met.
By Wendy Sefsaf, Immigration Impact
U.S. Department of Justice informed state officials in a letter last week that the state’s immigration law has resulted in significantly higher absence rates among Latinos.
Monday, May 14th, 2012
By Liliana Segura, The Nation
Trina Garnett accidentally set a fatal fire when she was 14. That was in 1976. Could a Supreme Court ruling on juvenile life without parole finally bring her home?
By Jill Richardson, AlterNet
Academic research is often dictated by corporations that endow professorships, give money to universities, and put their executives on education boards.
By Chris Hedges, Truthdig
When civilizations start to die they go insane. Let the ice sheets in the Arctic melt. Let the temperatures rise. Let the air, soil and water be poisoned. Let the forests die.
By Emma Lee, The Fix
40 percent of the most extreme cyber sex users are women. They're likely to ignore normal safety precautions to put themselves in high-risk situations.
By Kristen Gwynne, AlterNet
For the NYPD's stats to add up, they'd have to have stopped every young, black man living in the city once--and then some.
By Bill Berkowitz, Talk To Action
Philip Anschutz is involved in a lawsuit trying to overturn a fracking ban.
By Eilene Zimmerman, Salon
Rep. John Sarbanes is conducting an experiment to see if he can raise enough money for a competitive re-election race--without large donors or PAC funds.
By Victoria Bekiempis, Comment Is Free
Rather than challenging taboos, Time's shock tactics exploit society's existing shame and confusion about sex and maternity.
By Max Berger, AlterNet
The Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party didn't succeed by electing candidates--it succeeded showing the limitations of the electoral system. Occupy should do the same.
By Roger Bybee, In These Times
Oil giant ExxonMobil is refusing to implement safety protections for the workers at its Louisiana refinery.
Saturday, May 12th, 2012
By Lauren Kelley, AlterNet
Recent battles against reproductive rights and unions, and the gender wage gap, make it clear that this country doesn't support mothers.
By Anna Lekas Miller, AlterNet
Israeli policy toward Palestinian prisoners is now facing unprecedented scrutiny due to a mass hunger strike aimed at ending administrative detention and other harsh policies.
By Kristin Rawls, AlterNet
North Carolina's anti-same-sex-marriage Amendment One passed last week amid a lot of wild media speculation, especially about black voters. We set the record straight.
By Donald Kaul, Other Words
I myself am a vegan of sorts and I'm here to tell you that it's not an easy life -- that's why it's OK to cheat.
By Sarah Seltzer, AlterNet
From Jefferson Davis' birthday to Loyalty Day, who knew these holidays were still official?
By Kristen Gwynne, AlterNet
A leader of Moms United to End the War on Drugs offers her thoughts on Mother's Day -- and how a sane, compassionate drug policy could actually keep our kids safe.
By Josh Eidelson, Salon
State Republicans are terrified of pushing anti-union legislation -- and becoming targets like Wisconsin's governor.
By Bill Moyers, Moyers & Company
Bill Moyers talks to RoseAnn DeMoro of National Nurses United about the union's march in Chicago for the Robin Hood Financial Transaction Tax.
By Michael Cohen, Comment Is Free
That a teenage Romney abused classmates perceived as "effeminate" tells us a lot about the candidate--as does his reaction to the revelation of this part of his past.
By Kari Lydersen, In These Times
The move to more and more processed foods has largely been one to cut labor costs, not because anyone thought the food was better for the kids.
By Sara Robinson, AlterNet
Flowers are nice, but this Mother's Day, what I really want is for these immature boys to grow up already.
By Steven Rosenfeld, AlterNet
Food and media corporations use campaign donations, attacks on science and the threat of smear campaigns to kill voluntary food marketing guidelines.
By Glenn Greenwald, The Guardian
One can quibble with Obama's rationale. But one cannot reasonably question the importance of his act.
By Nicholas Powers, AlterNet
Racism in America's police force is linked to cops' role as keepers of the status quo in an unequal society.
By Liz Langley, AlterNet
These research discoveries will blow your mind.
By Irin Carmon, Salon
A new survey reveals just how ignorant young people are about contraception and pregnancy.
By Craig Morgan, Rebel Magazine
Men’s obsession with looking younger, hotter and better-kept has spawned a series of industries seeking to profit off that attitude shift.
By Christine M. Grant, Sightline Institute
Bicycles aren't just more eco-friendly; they're a joyous, human, romantic way to travel.
By Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog
What just happened at J.P. Morgan – along with its leader’s cavalier dismissal – reveals how fragile, opaque and dangerous the banking system continues to be
By David Sirota, AlterNet
These days, America has two favorite new exports: firearms and obesity.
Friday, May 11th, 2012
By Joshua Holland, AlterNet
America's political-economy is caught in a vicious cycle, with concentrated wealth at the top leading to outsized political power.
By Greta Christina, AlterNet
Atheists are becoming a force to be reckoned with. They are a powerful ally when inspired to take action -- and a powerful opponent when they're treated like dirt.
By Suzanne Goldenberg, The Guardian
Documents show for the first time that local anti-wind groups are co-ordinating and working with national fossil-fuel funded advocacy groups to wreck the wind industry.
By Amy Goodman, Juan Gonzalez, Democracy Now!
In an historic announcement, President Obama has become the first U.S. president to support same-sex marriage. We get reaction from acclaimed playwright and activist Tony Kushner.
By Tracy Clark-Flory, Salon
Did breasts evolve for lactation or to enhance sex appeal? A new book explores why they matter.
By Paige Aarhus, Indypendent
Monsanto and the Gates Foundation claim genetically modified crops will revolutionize agriculture in Kenya, but critics warn the technology is ill-suited to the needs of farmers.
By Ian Millhiser, ThinkProgress
The Department of Justice has filed a suit against Arpaio -- here are the worst examples of his bigotry against Latinos.
By Michael T. Klare, TomDispatch.com
Consider these flash-points as signals that we are entering an era of intensified conflict over energy.
By Jill Harris, AlterNet
If the candidate who ordered raids on medical pot growers in Southern Oregon loses the election, the loss may reverberate with US Attorneys around the country.
By Tina Reynolds, Victoria Law, AlterNet
This Mother's Day, take a few minutes to find out how you can help shape a society where no woman ever has to give birth while in shackles and chains.
Thursday, May 10th, 2012
By Sarah Jaffe, AlterNet
Around the country, families are being tossed out of their homes with astonishing regularity, with local law enforcement enlisted to do the bidding of big banks.
By Rob Boston, Church & State Magazine
Americans today enjoy access to effective birth control. But it wasn't always this way and religious conservatives are trying to turn back the clock.
By Martha Rosenberg, AlterNet
Food scandals are so costly to Big Food that it has repeatedly tried to kill the messenger rather than clean up its act.
By David Sirota, Salon
How the battle between the macrobrew behemoths and the craftbrew insurgents reflects a path for America's troubled economy.
By Sarah Seltzer, AlterNet
President Obama announced his support of same-sex marriage in an interview with ABC.
By Sam Pizzigati, Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality
The world’s super rich are fashioning themselves into a new global tribe of footloose and stateless. The rest of us get to gawk — and foot the ultimate bill.
By Yolanda Arenal, New America Media
Early childhood education makes a huge difference for disadvantaged students.
By Angelo Carusone, Media Matters for America
Cumulus Media, a radio company that carries Rush Limbaugh's show on 38 of its stations, announced millions in losses directly attributable to Limbaugh's show.
By Josh Eidelson, In These Times
“Sotheby’s is selling The Scream–an artful interpretation of human anguish and suffering–while they continue to create anguish and suffering among their own workforce."
Wednesday, May 9th, 2012
By Sarah Seltzer, AlterNet
President Obama announced his support of same-sex marriage in an interview with ABC.
By Jim Hightower, Hightower Lowdown
In medicated America, the fix for every problem is just a prescription away. Except that it's not.
By Noam Chomsky, TomDispatch.com
Unless the spirit of the last year continues to grow and becomes a major force in the social and political world, the chances for a decent future are not very high.
By Lauren Kelley, AlterNet
"African Americans are caught," says Rev. William Barber. "On one hand, we fight against stand-your-ground laws, but once the laws are on the books they aren't applied to us."
By Booth Gunter, Southern Poverty Law Center
Privatization of the youth prison industry handed soaring profits to GEO, but a history of brutal injustice to its incarcerated youth and their families.
By Joshua Holland, AlterNet
Is free media worth the mockery that comes with these bizarre pitches? Many candidates think so.
By Joan Walsh, Salon
The toxic but illogical politics of pitting young against old has been on display all over the media.
By William K. Black, New Economic Perspectives
International business reporters are helping the economic quacks who prescribe austerity snake oil.
By Brendan Fischer, AlterNet
Scott Walker's 2010 opponent gets a rematch, as protester's candidate will face the GOP Lt. Governor.
By Margaret Kimberly, Black Agenda Report
There's a war in America against black women and their young children.
By Sara Robinson, AlterNet
We may not share their theology, but right-wing religion teaches powerful lessons on courage, confidence and foresight that we could stand to learn.
By Steven Rosenfeld, AlterNet
Lugar said they could not possibly govern for the good of the nation if they held fast to their draconian, uncompromising beliefs.
