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Noam Chomsky on America's Declining Empire, Occupy and the Arab Spring

By Joshua Holland / AlterNet

According to Chomsky, America's declining power is self-inflicted.

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Porn Lit: Why the S&M "50 Shades of Grey" Is Freaking Everyone Out

By Sarah Seltzer / AlterNet

Why Is Autism So Drastically on the Rise? An Environmental Horror Story

By Eleanor J. Bader / AlterNet

10 of Thomas Friedman's Dumbest "Big Ideas"

By Belén Fernández / AlterNet

Public Displays of Connection: How Social Media Can Help Repair the News' Trust Problem

By Rory O'Connor / City Lights

Don't Slave Your Life Away: Why America Should Embrace a 4-Day Work Week

No Wonder So Many Are Disillusioned by Our Politics -- We've Got an 18th Century Political System

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

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The Science of Fox News: Why Its Viewers are the Most Misinformed

Chris Mooney / AlterNet

The Politics of Fat: We Have to Keep Struggling to Liberate Ourselves from Self-Hatred

Allison McCarthy / AlterNet

How Activists Are Striking Back Against Drone Warfare

Medea Benjamin / AlterNet

3 Great Reasons You Should Check Out 'The Hunger Games'

Sarah Seltzer / AlterNet

How the Right-Wing Brain Works and What That Means for Progressives

Chris Mooney / AlterNet

Women Have Been Fighting Misinformation and Oppression of Their Bodies for Decades

Eleanor J. Bader / AlterNet

Why War Isn't Inevitable: A Science Writer Studies the Secret to Peaceful Societies

Brad Jacobson / AlterNet

Should Joining a Union Be a Civil Right?

Jake Blumgart / AlterNet

Why the American Empire Was Destined to Collapse

Nomi Prins / AlterNet

Lies to Congress, Domestic Spying, Torture: Why the Bush White House Must Be Prosecuted

Steven Rosenfeld / AlterNet

What Are We Really Eating? Reporter Goes Undercover to Reveal the Real Story of Our Broken Food System

Kerry Trueman / AlterNet

How Financial Crisis, Economic Inequality, Social Media, and More Brought Revolutions in 2011--and Changed Us Forever

Sarah Jaffe / AlterNet

Can Computer Games Save Us All? New Research Shows How Gaming Can Help Cure Our Social Ills

Terrence McNally / AlterNet

How the Wisconsin Uprising Changed America and Why Its Renegade Politics Are Here to Stay

Sarah Jaffe / AlterNet

Americans Are Protesting, But What Keeps Full-Scale Riots From Breaking Out?

Jake Blumgart / AlterNet

Thomas Frank Talks to Joshua Holland About the 'Hard-Times Swindle' and the Unlikely Comeback of the Right

Editorial Staff / AlterNet

How the Sexual Revolution Changed America Forever

Nancy L. Cohen / Counterpoint Press

Why We Got Ayn Rand Instead of FDR: Thomas Frank on How Tea Party 'Populism' Derailed a New New Deal

Thomas Frank / Picador Press

Robert Greenwald and Reporter Michael Hastings Take on the Wild and Terrifying Inside Story of America's War Machine

Robert Greenwald / AlterNet

Revolutionary Jose Maria Sison on US Imperialism and a Way Forward for the Philippines

Bill Fletcher, Jr. / AlterNet

Shocker: Is Our World Becoming Less Violent?

Joshua Holland / AlterNet

Some Feet Not Meant for Shoes - Novel Excerpt

Pamela Klein / AlterNet

More Nature, More Sex, More Sleep: 8 New Year's Resolutions That Will Actually Make You Happy and Healthy

Alison Pace / AlterNet

5 Worst Political Books of the Year

Jon Wiener / The Nation

Most Important Book of 2011: Kivalina, a Climate Change Story

Jeff Biggers / AlterNet

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