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From Seed to Smoke: New Book Chronicles Marijuana's Complete History

By Jonah Raskin / High Times

Smoke Signals charts the history of marijuana, from its origin as a species to that joint in your hand.

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Education Profiteering: Wall Street's Next Big Thing?

By Jeff Faux / AlterNet

10 Steps to Break Up the Wealth of the Super Rich

By Chuck Collins / Berrett-Koehler Publishers

Most of Us Will Not Have a Better Life Unless We Turn the Tables on the Super Rich

By Chuck Collins / Berrett-Koehler Publishers

Dark Secret of the US Military -- Neo-Nazis and Criminals Are Filling Its Ranks

By Matt Kennard / Verso

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

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

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

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Two Books Check in on Feminist Revolution in Wake of Shulamith Firestone's Death

Claire Glass / AlterNet

What's So Terrible About Calling Vaginas "Yonis?"

Janna Zinzi / AlterNet

Does the 21st Century Mark the 'End of Men'? Not Quite -- But Women Are on the Rise

Heather Boushey / AlterNet

Nate Silver: The Polls Aren’t Wrong

David Daley / Salon

Only a Revolution in Our Thinking Can Save Us From a Water Crisis

Tara Lohan / AlterNet

Why Sexual Fundamentalists Dominate Politics and How We Can Stop Them

Mandy Van Deven / AlterNet

Reading A Queer-Eyed, Radical "On the Road" for the New Millenium

Eleanor J. Bader / AlterNet

How Democrats Unlocked Karl Rove's Secrets and Propelled Obama to Victory

Sasha Issenberg / Crown Publishing

How Margaret Sanger Led the Birth Control Movement - and Why the GOP Still Hates Her

Peter Drier / Nation Books

Why Neil Barofsky’s Book “Bailout” Matters

Matt Stoller / Naked Capitalism

“The Dumbest Idea in the World”: Corporate America's False - and Dangerous - Ideology of Shareholder Value

Lynn Stout / Berrett-Koehler Publishers

Why Do So Many Southerners Think They're the Only Real Americans?

Chuck Thompson / AlterNet

Dave Eggers' Gem of a New Novel Goes Right After the Decadence and Heartlessness of Corporate Capitalism

Chris Hedges / Truthdig

Why Chris Hedges Believes That Serious Revolt Is the Only Option People Have Left

Mark Karlin / Truthout

Howard Zinn Turns 90: The Great Legacy of the People's Historian

Anthony Arnove / AlterNet

What's the Matter With White People? Longing for a Golden Age That Never Was

Andrew O'Hehir, Joan Walsh / Salon

Why Do We Idolize Jerks?

Geoffrey Nunberg / Perseus Books

Smoke Signals: A Psychoactive Journey Through Marijuana's Fascinating History

Jonah Raskin / The Rag Blog

Pay Someone to Name Your Child? How We Are Outsourcing Our Personal Affairs

Alyssa Figueroa, Don Hazen / AlterNet

How Malcolm Gladwell Shilled for the Health Care Lobby ... and Got Away with It

Yasha Levine / AlterNet

GOPer Confesses: Republicans Have Gone 'Nuts' With Religious Fundamentalism

Joshua Holland / AlterNet

Can Pot Treat Cancer Without The Devastating Effects of Chemotherapy?

Martin A. Lee / Simon and Schuster

Apocalypse Now: Do We Have A Global Death Wish?

Jay Michaelson / Religion Dispatches

Is It Finally Time to Let the South Secede?

Joshua Holland / AlterNet

How the CIA's LSD Mind-Control Experiments Destroyed My Healthy, High-Functioning Father's Brilliant Mind

W. Henry Wall, Jr. / NewSouth Books

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