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Can Taking Public Transit Be Joyful?
By Scott Carlson / Grist.org
A new e-book shows how cities around the world are using art, music, play, and even sex to make transit a lot more fun.
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The Self-Made Myth: Debunking Conservatives' Favorite -- And Most Dangerous -- Fiction
By Sara Robinson
AlterNet
Why Is Autism So Drastically on the Rise? An Environmental Horror Story
By Eleanor J. Bader / AlterNet
Public Displays of Connection: How Social Media Can Help Repair the News' Trust Problem
By Rory O'Connor / City Lights
The Politics of Fat: We Have to Keep Struggling to Liberate Ourselves from Self-Hatred
By Allison McCarthy / AlterNet
Women Have Been Fighting Misinformation and Oppression of Their Bodies for Decades
By Eleanor J. Bader / AlterNet
Why War Isn't Inevitable: A Science Writer Studies the Secret to Peaceful Societies
By Brad Jacobson / AlterNet
Lies to Congress, Domestic Spying, Torture: Why the Bush White House Must Be Prosecuted
By Steven Rosenfeld / AlterNet
What Are We Really Eating? Reporter Goes Undercover to Reveal the Real Story of Our Broken Food System
By Kerry Trueman / AlterNet
How Financial Crisis, Economic Inequality, Social Media, and More Brought Revolutions in 2011--and Changed Us Forever
By Sarah Jaffe / AlterNet
Can Computer Games Save Us All? New Research Shows How Gaming Can Help Cure Our Social Ills
By Terrence McNally / AlterNet
How the Wisconsin Uprising Changed America and Why Its Renegade Politics Are Here to Stay
By Sarah Jaffe / AlterNet
Americans Are Protesting, But What Keeps Full-Scale Riots From Breaking Out?
By Jake Blumgart / AlterNet
Thomas Frank Talks to Joshua Holland About the 'Hard-Times Swindle' and the Unlikely Comeback of the Right
By Editorial Staff / AlterNet
Why We Got Ayn Rand Instead of FDR: Thomas Frank on How Tea Party 'Populism' Derailed a New New Deal
By Thomas Frank / Picador Press
Robert Greenwald and Reporter Michael Hastings Take on the Wild and Terrifying Inside Story of America's War Machine
By Robert Greenwald / AlterNet
Revolutionary Jose Maria Sison on US Imperialism and a Way Forward for the Philippines
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. / AlterNet
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