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The Secret to One High-Poverty School District's Success

By Richard D. Kahlenberg / Washington Monthly

How Union City, NJ schools achieved huge gains. Hint: It wasn't via corporate school reform.

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There Are Good Alternatives to US Capitalism, But No Way to Get There

By Jerry Mander / Counterpoint Press

Mass Shootings Are Not the "Shock" or Aberration the U.S. Media Reports

By Tom Diaz / The New Press

Thank You Anarchy: Notes from the Occupy Apocalypse

By Nathan Schneider / University of California Press

Atheism Has a Women Problem

By Katie Engelhart / Salon

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We Have to Embrace Apocalypse If We're Going to Get Serious About Sticking Around on This Planet

Mining the World to Death

American Intellectuals' Widespread Failure to Stand Up to Billionaires and Authoritarian Power

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Christian Policies Saturate the U.S.--What Can We do About It?

Paul Kivel / New Society Publishers

How Do You Mediate a Land Battle between National Counties and Native Tribes? Share a Few Stories

Lucy Moore / Island Press

We Have to Embrace Apocalypse If We're Going to Get Serious About Sticking Around on This Planet

Robert Jensen / AlterNet

Mining the World to Death

Robert Jensen / AlterNet

How Unchecked Capitalism Has Brought the World to the Brink of Apocalypse -- and What We Must Do Now

Robert Jensen / AlterNet

Here's What Everyone Needs to Know about the Federal Reserve

Stephen H. Axilrod / Oxford University Press

Shocker: Only 1% of So Called Terrorists Nabbed by the FBI Were Real

Joshua Holland / AlterNet

Why Do Stories of Female Sexual Predators Shock Us?

Daniel D'Addario / Salon

American Intellectuals' Widespread Failure to Stand Up to Billionaires and Authoritarian Power

Robert Jensen / AlterNet

How a Pentecostal Preacher in Small-Town Louisiana Became an Atheist Activist

Greta Christina / AlterNet

Why Renegade Naturalist Doug Peacock's New Book About the Pleistocene Is a Must Read for Surviving Today

Brooke Williams / Huffington Post

America, Passive Nation -- Why Can't We Stand Up for Ourselves When Our Rights Are Stolen?

Dan Gillmore / The Guardian

How We Mate and Why We Cheat on Each Other

Terrence McNally, Christopher Ryan / AlterNet

Eve Ensler: My Journey to Find My Way Back to My Body

Eve Ensler / Henry Holt, Metropolitan Books

I Spent Eight Years As a Liberal Working for Fox News

Joshua Holland / AlterNet

Minneapolis and Somalia—The Outlaw State of the World's Most Dangerous Place

James Furgusson / Da Capo Press

Is Monogamy Natural? Our Anatomy Suggests Perhaps Not

Robert Martin / Basic Books

Atheists Can Be Just As Obnoxious As Christians

Mary Elizabeth Williams / Salon

How America's Bully Economy leads to a "Bully Society"

Jessie Klein / NYU Press

"The Efficiency Trap"—How Promoting Efficiency Means Sustaining a Broken System

Steve Hallett / Prometheus Books

Biphobia: The Author Strongly Argues That Bisexuals Face Their Own Discrimination, Especially from Straight Populations

Shiri Eisner / Seal Press

Why Humanity Is More Vulnerable to the Power of the Ocean Than Ever Before

Brian Fagan / Bloomsbury Press

Rachel Kushner’s Ambitious New Novel Scares Male Critics

Laura Miller / Salon

A Fascinating New Theory About the Human Mind, Evolution and Mortality

Ajit Varki, Danny Brower / Twelve

Rich Countries Are Betting on 3rd World Famine

Jean Ziegler / The New Press

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