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

By Mark Karlin / Truthout

Hedges discusses his new book "Days of Destruction Days of Revolt."

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

By Anthony Arnove / AlterNet

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

By Andrew O'Hehir, Joan Walsh / Salon

Why Do We Idolize Jerks?

By Geoffrey Nunberg / Perseus Books

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

By Jonah Raskin / The Rag Blog

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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

I Was One of America's Top Psychics -- And Like All of Them, a Complete Fraud

Mark Edward / Feral House

Timothy Noah: Why the Rich Are Getting Richer and the Middle Class Is Disappearing

Sarah Jaffe / AlterNet

In Hindsight, Maybe We Shouldn’t Have Let Lord Voldemort Start His Own Super PAC.

Eric Hague / McSweeney's

12 Summer Vacation Book Ideas For AlterNet Readers

George Bauer / AlterNet

Autoworkers Under the Gun: Why Republicans Demand Worker Concessions (It's Not About Money)

Gregg Shotwell / Haymarket Books

James Fallows: the GOP Pulled Off an Institutional Coup With the Help of Enablers in the Media

Joshua Holland / AlterNet

The Elites Are Unanimous: Lower Everyone's Wages and Standard of Living -- Except They Don't Say it Out Loud

Jeff Faux / AlterNet

Multi-Millionaire Admits: The Government Helped Make Me Rich

Brian Miller, Mike Lapham / Berrett-Koehler Publishers

Combatting Anti-Gay Bullying Through Young Adult Fiction

Eleanor J. Bader / AlterNet

Exposing How Donald Trump Really Made His Fortune: Inheritance from Dad and the Government's Protection Mostly Did the Trick

Brian Miller, Mike Lapham / Berrett-Koehler Publishers

Why Are (Mostly Liberal) American Jews Silent as Right-Wing Extremists in Israel Threaten the Country's Democracy?

Joshua Holland / AlterNet

George Lakoff: How Right-Wingers Scam People Into Buying Their Toxic Philosophy

Joshua Holland / AlterNet

Does Your Doctor Have a Fake Degree? The Billion-Dollar Industry That Has Sold Over a Million Fake Diplomas

John Bear, Allen Ezell / AlterNet

Chris Hayes: Why America's Meritocracy Is Just a Myth

Joshua Holland / AlterNet

Joseph Stiglitz: The Price of Inequality

Joseph Stiglitz / W. W. Norton & Company

The Secret of Our Obsession With Anne Boleyn

Lynn Stuart Parramore / AlterNet

Conservatives Attack Scientific Findings About Why They Hate Science (Helping to Confirm the Science)

Chris Mooney / AlterNet

Can Taking Public Transit Be Joyful?

Scott Carlson / Grist.org

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