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How America's Working Class Died on the Disco Dance Floor

By Jefferson Cowie / The New Press

A new book describes how working-class America hit the rocks during the turbulent '70s.

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"Why the Hell Do We Have Forces in Germany?" How Our Vast Empire Saps Our Strength

By Andrew Feldman / Foreign Policy in Focus

How to Kill Goyim and Influence People: Israeli Rabbis Defend Book's Shocking Religious Defense of Killing Non-Jews (with Video)

By Max Blumenthal / AlterNet

5 Ways We Should Radically Reconsider War

By Richard Rubenstein / Bloomsbury Press

10 Needed Steps for Obama to Start Dismantling America's Gigantic, Destructive Military Empire

By Chalmers Johnson / Metropolitan Books

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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Global Warming Deniers Aren't "Experts" At All: It's Time for a New View of Science

Naomi Oreskes, Erik M. Conway / Bloomsbury USA

Looking Back at Norman Podhoretz, a Key Influence on Today's Neoconservative Right

Norman Birnbaum / Truthdig

Meet the Educators Fighting to Restore a Sense of Civic Duty in School Kids

Andrea Batista Schlesinger / Berrett-Koehler Publishers

Days of Rage -- The Noxious Transformation of the Conservative Movement into a Rabid Fringe

Max Blumenthal / Nation Books

Is a 500-Year Human Life Span Just Around the Corner?

Jonathan Weiner / Harper Collins Publishers, Inc.

The High Toll of High Heels

Leora Tanenbaum / Seven Stories Press

How to Dismantle the American Empire Before This Country Goes Under

Andrew J. Bacevich / Metropolitan Books

Michael Pollan: The Mighty Rise of the Food Revolution

Michael Pollan / New York Review of Books

Is Wall Street Making Life or Death Decisions on Your Behalf?

Dora Calott Wang / AlterNet

How You Will Change the World with Social Networking

Deanna Zandt / Berrett-Koehler Publishers

America, There Is a Better Way: It’s Called Germany

Jeremy Gantz / AlterNet

The Politics of Fear: How Fighting Terrorism is Bankrupting the World and Making Us Less Safe

Loretta Napoleoni / Seven Stories Press

How Amazon Kills Books and Makes Us Stupid

Colin Robinson / The Nation

Will Afghanistan Become the Saudi Arabia of Lithium?

Paul Fitzgerald, Elizabeth Gould / AlterNet

A Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man

Rich Benjamin / AlterNet

10 Things That Feminism Could Do Better

Nina Power / AlterNet

Prisoners of the States: How America Has Violated Prisoner Rights For Generations

Erik Hayden / Miller-McCune Magazine

Meet the Man Who Made a Fortune Exploiting the Poor With Payday Loans

Gary Rivlin / AlterNet

7 Lessons Saul Alinsky Would Give Progressives Today

Nicholas von Hoffman / AlterNet

The Price of a Bargain: The Quest for Cheap and the Death of Globalization

Gordon Laird / Palgrave Macmillan

Red State Families vs. Blue State Families: The Family-Values Divide

Naomi Cahn, June Carbone / Oxford University Press

How Dead People Have More Rights Than You Do!

Ray D. Madoff / Yale University Press

The Town the Torturers Came From

Justine Sharrock / Wiley Press

Your Money or Your Life: Why Work Yourself to Death?

Vicki Robin / Penguin Books

We Have a Black President, But That Doesn't Resolve the Deep Racism Built into the American Psyche

Tim Wise / AlterNet

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