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Olympics: NBC Gives a Big Middle Finger to Over 100 Million Americans Without Cable TV

By Joshua Holland / AlterNet

People all over the world are watching the Olympics online, but a lot of Americans are just out of luck.

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Punks vs. Putin: How Pussy Riot Managed to Give Russia's Leader His Biggest Political Headache Yet

By Carole Cadwalladr / The Observer UK

Come Back Woody Guthrie, We Need You: America's Great Folk Singer Would Have Turned 100

By Danny Goldberg / Dissent Magazine

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

By Eric Hague / McSweeney's

Nicki Minaj's Retroactive Feminism

By Julianne Escobedo Shepherd / AlterNet

Punk at the Met: For People Who've Never Had to Safety-Pin Their Clothes

Is 'The Great Gatsby' a Movie or a Shopping Promo?

Footloose Redux: 33 High School Students Suspended for 'Twerking' Video

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10 Mind-Blowing Discoveries This Week

Liz Langley / AlterNet

The World Needs More Geek Girls -- And Here's Where They're Coming From Now

Ysabel Yates / Txchnologist

How Will the 99% Deal with the Psychopaths in the 1%?

Joe Brewer / Cognitive Policy Works

Shooting Rampages: An American Tradition

Gene H. Bell-Villada / AlterNet

Conservative Media Attack the Muppets

Eric Hananoki / Media Matters for America

5 Critical Actions That Really Can Put Us on a Sustainable Path

Alyssa Figueroa / AlterNet

NRA's Wayne LaPierre Has Blood on His Hands for Aurora Shooting and Many Others

Peter Dreier / AlterNet

How Our Popular Notion of Romance Keeps Failing Us

Jake Blumgart / AlterNet

The Story of Change

Annie Leonard / The Story of Stuff

'The Dark Knight Rises' Asks Us to Believe the Rich Can Save Us

Mark Fisher / Comment Is Free

Pushing for a Sweatshop-Free Olympics

Michelle Chen / In These Times

5 Travel Destinations That Will Get You High

Andy Pag / AlterNet

A Long Dark Night: Gun Violence Romanticized and the New Batman Movie

Nicholas Powers / AlterNet

Thomas Frank: Why Does Everything Have to be Shiny and "Vibrant"?

Thomas Frank / The Baffler

The Great Resurgence of Public Spaces

Jay Walljasper / On the Commons

We Have Less Maternity Leave Than Pakistan? 5 Things That Would Make Your Job Humane

Sarah Seltzer / AlterNet

Mooney: Are Conservatives Happier Than Liberals?

Chris Mooney / Salon

The Shocking Truth About Joe Paterno, Penn State and Governor Tom Corbett

Dave Zirin / The Nation

Combatting Anti-Gay Bullying Through Young Adult Fiction

Eleanor J. Bader / AlterNet

A Closer Look at Louis CK's Shocking Rape Scene

Claire Lobenfeld / AlterNet

What's Up With America's Apocalypse Obsession?

Julianne Escobedo Shepherd / AlterNet

Why Do We Pressure Sexy Women to Lose Weight? 8 Beautiful Stars Who Still Get Called Fat

Julianne Escobedo Shepherd / AlterNet

Hope Is For The Lazy: The Challenge Of Our Dead World

Robert Jensen / AlterNet

Life Is Cheaper -- And Richer -- In Co-Housing

Sven Eberlein / YES! Magazine

Why Don't Americans See Climate Change As A Moral Imperative?

KC Golden / Getting A Grip On Climate Solutions

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