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Why the Raw, Animalistic Female Libido Is Repressed

By William Hogeland / William Hogeland's blog

A new book by Daniel Bergner rejects age-old thinking about female sexuality.

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Free Will is a Myth — But We Can Still Have Ethics and Hold People Accountable

By Heidi Ravven / The New Press

"I’ve Been Put in Prison for Opposing the War in Afghanistan"

By Joe Glenton / Verso Books

Anarchists Vs. Liberals: What's That About?

By Danny Goldberg / The Nation

If Apes Could Talk to Atheists: How Religious Life Has More to Do With Animal Instinct Than You'd Think

By Beatrice Marovich / Religion Dispatches

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

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

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Motherhood at 40 and the Bioethical Quagmires of Reproductive Technology

Miriam Zoll / Interlink Books

How America Failed Its Immigrants

Alfredo Gutierrez / Verso Books

Do CEOs Have Any Shame? They're Firing Workers and Giving Themselves Raises

Dan Oppenheimer / Salon

Is the Idea of an Intelligent Self-Help Book a Paradox?

Lisa Levy / Los Angeles Review of Books

Back to the Land is Back in Vogue, and It Could Make You Happier

Emily Matchar / Simon & Schuster

How Ecstasy Can Take You on the Healing Path ... Even for a Former Nun

Ralph Metzner / AlterNet

Reefer Madness Started in Mexico

Isaac Campos / University of North Carolina Press

Austerity Kills: Crippling Economic Policies Causing Global Health Crisis

Amy Goodman, David Stuckler, Sanjay Basu / Democracy Now!

How Coca-Cola's Ruthless Business Tactics Created a Despicable Global Powerhouse

Jill Richardson / AlterNet

Why We Must Reject the Dogma of Religious Frauds and Find Our Own Truth

Daniele Bolelli / Red Wheel/Weiser

Austerity and Debt Conspire to Wreck the Lives of Working American Families

Robert Kuttner / Knopf Publishing

How Hollywood Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Atomic Bomb

Greg Mitchell / Sinclair Books

“A Lake of Blood and Destruction” – The Voices We Never Hear From America's Wars

Fred Branfman / AlterNet

How America's Endless Civil War Between Protestant Sects Is at the Heart of American Identity

Hazel Rose Markus Alana Conner / Hudson Street Press

Don’t Stop Believin’: Do Atheists Really Need a Church?

Katie Engelhart / Salon

Michael Pollan: Americans Cook Less Than Ever, But Love Watching It on TV -- New Book Takes Food Revolution into the Kitchen

Jill Richardson, Michael Pollan / AlterNet

The Book That Exposes How America's Imperial Global War on Terror Makes Life Much More Dangerous for Us at Home

Tom Engelhardt / TomDispatch.com

'A Kaleidoscopic Sense of Possibility': Interview with David Graeber on Democracy in America

Lynn Stuart Parramore / AlterNet

Straight Talk About the Next American Revolution

Gar Alperovitz / Chelsea Green Publishing

The Secret Story Behind Obama’s Assassination of Two Americans in the Name of Fighting the 'War on Terror'

Amy Goodman, Jeremy Scahill / Democracy Now!

Noam Chomsky: How Close the World Is to Nuclear War

Noam Chomsky, Laray Polk / Seven Stories Press

Kardashian Kapture: Where Can We Find Stories of Ordinary People Facing Real Problems?

Kelly Huddleston / AlterNet

Making a Million Bucks an Hour: How Hedge Funds Get Away With Siphoning Off America's Wealth

Les Leopold / AlterNet

5 Things You Should Know About the History of the Death Penalty

Stephen Hartnett / AlterNet

The Coming Crash: Our Addiction to Endless Growth on a Finite Planet [With Photo Slideshow]

Tara Lohan / AlterNet

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