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Should We Launch an All-Out Assault on Car Culture?

By Tyler Harbottle / The Tyee

Bring it on say authors of a new book. But you're more likely to find bicyclists and pedestrians working for peaceful coexistence.

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Imagine There's No Countries -- It Isn't Hard to Do: New Book Explores One of Earth's Last 'Non-State' Regions

By Javier Sethness / TruthOut.org

Blind Allegiance to Sarah Palin: An Insider Exposes How Palin Is Focused on Riches, Not Governing

By Ken Morris / Howard Books

Do Some Circus and Zoo Animals Dream of Freedom and Revenge Against Their Masters? One Author Says Yes

By Thaddeus Russell / Reason

Critic Lambasts David Brooks's Failure of Imagination and Literature in His New Book

By Gary Greenberg / The Nation

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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Get Up, Stand Up: Uniting Populists, Energizing the Defeated, and Battling the Corporate Elite

Bruce E. Levine / Chelsea Green Publishing

Insider: "The Christian Right is Aiming to Destroy All Things Public"

Frank Schaeffer / De Capo Press

GOP Hitman Andrew Breitbart's Confessional Memoir: I Wouldn't Be a Foul, Raging Jerk If I Had Made It in Hollywood

Alexander Zaitchik, Mark Howard / AlterNet

Plastic May Be Horrible For the Environment, But Could We Survive Without It?

Kerry Trueman / AlterNet

Too Much Crazy: Tom Tomorrow on Right-Wing Madness in the Age of Obama

Joshua Holland / AlterNet

Secrets and Wives: A British Atheist Spends Time Among Mormon Polygamists

Sanjiv Bhattacharya / Religion Dispatches

Meet Bart Ehrman: A One-Man God Fraud Squad

Anneli Rufus / AlterNet

Susie Bright's Story: Yes, Women Love Sex Too

Elissa Strauss / AlterNet

Diary of An Eco-Outlaw: Taking on the Corporate Polluters, Jail Be Damned

Diane Wilson / Chelsea Green Publishing

Why The Fiery Trial, on Lincoln's Changing Views of Slavery, Deserves Its Pulitzer

Tristero / Hullabaloo

Tweets from Tahrir: Egypt's Revolution as it Unfolded, in the Words of the People

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Participatory Art-Making: Choreographer Liz Lerman's Populist Dance Activism

Debra Cash / Arts Fuse

The Dirty Truth Behind America's Obsession With Shrimp

Kennedy Warne / Island Press

Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer -- And Turned Its Back on the Middle Class

Jacob S. Hacker, Paul Pierson / Simon & Schuster

Novelist T.C. Boyle on Humankind's Arrogant Attitude Towards Nature

Tom Jacobs, T. C. Boyle / Miller-McCune Magazine

How I Almost Got Put on the Domestic Terrorist List for Handing Out Leaflets

Will Potter / Conari Press

How Disney Invaded American Childhood to Shill Worthless Crap to Our Kids

M. M. Adjarian, Peggy Orenstein / Bitch Magazine

Why Factory Farmed Meat Is a Threat to Your Health -- Even If You Don't Eat It

Brittany Shoot / AlterNet

What Really Happened to the 1960s: How Mass Media Culture Failed American Democracy

Edward P. Morgan / University Press of Kansas

Back to Our Future: How the 1980s Explain the World We Live in Now

David Sirota / Ballantine Books

Is Water The New Oil? "Water Matters" Explains the Crisis and Solutions

Jaymi Heimbuch / TreeHugger

Why Our Books, Movies and Music Are the Catalysts of Politics

Danny Goldberg / Down With Tyranny!

Powerful Voices of Witness: Fighting for Freedom from Burma's Brutal Military

Maggie Lemere, Zoe West / McSweeney's

Leaving Home in Search of the American Dream Only to be Forced to Turn Around and Go Back

Brittany Shoot / AlterNet

The Moral Underground: How Ordinary Americans Subvert an Unfair Economy

Lisa Dodson / The New Press

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