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The Anti-Immigrant Paranoia That Drives Shawna Forde to 'Patrol' the American Border

By David Neiwert / Perseus Books

A powerful excerpt from David Neiwert's new book, "And Hell Followed with Her: Crossing the Dark Side of the American Border."

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Outrageous: David Cay Johnston Explains How Big Corporations Withhold Your Taxes and Then Pocket Them

By Joshua Holland / AlterNet

Chicago Public Schools Take Marjane Satrapi’s ‘Persepolis’ Out Of Seventh-Grade Classrooms

By Alyssa Rosenberg / Think Progress

The Psychedelic Future of the Mind

By Craig K Comstock / AlterNet

The World Is Going Digital -- Are We Doomed?

By Rory O'Connor / Media Is Plural

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Why Students Learn Better in a Playful Environment

Peter Gray / Basic Books

Finally, a Nuanced Look at Hookup Culture and the Sex Lives of Modern Women in Their 20s

Tracy Clark-Flory / Salon

Your Brain on Love: The Fascinating Biochemical Reactions That Make Sparks Fly

Barbara Fredrickson / The Penguin Press

Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans Publish a New Book of Short Stories about the Long War

Brian Van Reet / Da Capo Press

Top U.S. Terrorist Group: the FBI

David Swanson / davidswanson.org

Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other

Sherry Turkle / Perseus Books

Most Terrorist Plots in the US Aren't Invented by Al Qaeda -- They're Manufactured by the FBI

Trevor Aaronson / Ig Publishing

Why Millions of American Children Will Not Have the Tools They Need to Succeed

Timothy Karr / Free Press

Before the World Forgets Antarctica's First Great Author: The Fascinating Life and Death of Nick Johnson

Alexander Zaitchik / AlterNet

There Are Three Options for Afghanistan and They're All Bad

Ann Jones / Tom Dispatch

Hate Eating Corporate Food? Democracy Is the Best Recipe

Tara Lohan / AlterNet

How Our Growth-Hungry Economy Has Devastated the Planet -- And How We Can Change Course

Rob Dietz, Dan O'Neill / Berrett-Koehler Publishers

Shocking Story of How the US Ignored International Law to Become World's Kidnapper and Torturer

Ian Cobain / Counterpoint Press

Gang Rapes and Beatings, Brothels Filled with Teenage Prostitutes -- The Depths of American Brutality in Vietnam

Nick Turse / Metropolitan Books

Searching For a Place to Sleep

Kenan Heise / Marion Street Press

Dumpster Diving in the Great Recession: 'I Did It Because I Was Hungry" (Hard Times, USA)

Kenan Heise / Marion Street Press

Jared Diamond: Do Hunter-Gatherer Societies Raise Their Children Better Than Americans Do?

Jared Diamond / Viking Press

Conservatives Are Always Triumphant and Also an Oppressed Minority, According to Notably Stupid New Book

Mister Leonard Pierce / AlterNet

Slavoj Zizek: I Am Not the World’s Hippest Philosopher!

Katie Engelhart / Salon

'Rooftop Revolution': Why It's Time to Join the Solar Boom

Danny Kennedy / Berrett-Koehler Publishers

10 Ways Social Taboos About Sex, Drugs and Death Scare Us from Learning the Truth

Robert Arthur / AlterNet

America's "Founding Fathers" Detested the Paradise of Delightful Debauchery and Freedom That Was 18th Century America

Thaddeus Russell / Free Press/Simon and Schuster

Barbara Kingsolver's 'Flight Behavior' Brilliantly Weaves Fiction And The Climate Change Crisis

Jennifer Weeks / Daily Climate

Endangered Colorado: Is it Too Late to Save One of Our Greatest Rivers?

Wade Davis / Island Press

How Christianity Became a Lucrative Brand

Sarah Banet-Weiser / New York Press

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