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5 Ways the Fashion Industry Hurts (And Helps) Women
By Julianne Escobedo Shepherd / AlterNet
A fashion lover looks into what's lovable and what's loathesome about the fashion industry.
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What Does It Mean that Rihanna Has Collaborated with Former Abuser Chris Brown?
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Can Computer Games Save Us All? New Research Shows How Gaming Can Help Cure Our Social Ills
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Why We Need to Get Boomers to Move to the Cities
By Will Doig
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'Downton Abbey' and 'The Help'--What Their Nostalgic Portrayals of Domestic Service Get Wrong
By Sarah Seltzer
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The Simpsons' 500th Episode, Starring Julian Assange: A Look Back at a One of America's Most Politically Relevant Shows
By Julianne Escobedo Shepherd / AlterNet
What Does it Mean When "30 Rock's" Jack Donaghy Declares: "We're on the Verge of a Class War?"
By Natasha Lennard / Salon
Americans Are Protesting, But What Keeps Full-Scale Riots From Breaking Out?
By Jake Blumgart / AlterNet
Why Patriarchal Men Are Utterly Petrified of Birth Control -- And Why We'll Still Be Fighting About it 100 Years From Now
By Sara Robinson / AlterNet
UN Declares 2012 The Year of The Co-op: Is This The Future of Capitalism?
By Jessica Reeder / YES! Magazine
Occupying Faith: What Occupy Can Learn From the Mistakes of The Church
By Rich Lang / AlterNet

Why Did Whitney Die? How Double Consciousness Robs Black America of Its Artists
By Nicholas Powers / AlterNet
Why MIA Was Right to Give America the Finger at the Super Bowl
By Julianne Escobedo Shepherd / AlterNet
Fashion Model/Filmmaker Launches Workers' Rights Organization for the Modeling Industry
By Paul Harris / The Guardian
Black Power Mixtape: The Civil Rights Battle Ignored by the U.S. Media
By Roger Catlin / Salon
How Pop Culture Influenced This Week's Proposition 8 Ruling
By Alyssa Rosenberg / ThinkProgress

How the Super Bowl Became the Center of a Political Showdown for Players and Workers
By Jamilah King / ColorLines
The 7 Most Irritating Superbowl Halftime Performers of All Time
By Julianne Escobedo Shepherd / AlterNet
1.25 Billion Chicken Wings? The Vast Amounts of Crappy Food Americans Consume on Super Bowl Sunday
By Tara Lohan / AlterNet
A Colossal Failure: Sundance Award-Winning Film Sheds New Light on Destructive Drug War
By Amy Goodman / Democracy Now!

Paula Deen: Populist Cook or Diabetic Scam Artist?
By Lynn Parramore / AlterNet
Top 5 Reasons You Should Run to See Oscar Favorite 'The Artist'
By Alison Pace / AlterNet
'Let’s Stay Together' -- Can Obama’s Charm Offensive Woo Back Disgruntled Progressives?
By Sarah Seltzer / AlterNet

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