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Aurora Shooting Victims Now Being Harassed By Gun-Nut Conspiracy Theorists

By Alex Seitz-Wald / Salon.com

It's gotten so bad that prosecutors have asked the court to redact victims' names.

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Understanding 'Post-Traumatic Ass Disorder': The Tendency to Turn into Complete Buttheads After Trauma

By Jeremy Sherman / AlterNet

Michelle Obama Is Not Our First Black First Lady? 10 Fascinating Things You Didn't Know About Black History

By Bijan C. Bayne / AlterNet

The Other Side of Noam Chomsky's Brilliant Mind

By David Barsamian, Noam Chomsky / Metropolitan Books

Oscar-Nominated 'Amour' Raises Red Flags on Age, Illness and Poverty

By Lynn Stuart Parramore / AlterNet

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Why Has Humanity Always Fantasized About the Capture and Rape of Women?

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A Look at Who Gets Left Out of Black History Month

Denise Oliver Velez / Daily Kos

The Super Bowl Ad That Coke And Pepsi Desperately Don’t Want You To See

Sy Mukherjee / ThinkProgress

4 Ways the Super Bowl Sucks For New Orleanians

Matt Reichel / AlterNet

You Don't Watch HBO's 'Enlightened' Religiously? Where Have You Been?

Eileen Jones / AlterNet

How Did the Super Bowl Land on the Front Lines of the Culture War? Player's Gay Slur Ignites National Firestorm

Daniel D'Addario / Salon

Pitbulls Used to Be Considered the Perfect "Nanny Dogs" for Children -- Until the Media Turned Them Into Monsters

Joshua Holland / AlterNet

Do You Ignore Homeless People?

Alyssa Figueroa / AlterNet

Ashton Kutcher Lands in the Hospital After Adopting Steve Jobs' Fruitarian Diet

Tara Lohan / AlterNet

Michael Moore's Repellent Defense of “Zero Dark Thirty"

Dave Clennon, Michael Moore / CounterPunch, MichaelMoore.com

Popular Cosmetic Procedure Called "the Barbie" Hacks Off Women's Labia So She's Smooth Like a Doll

Katie J.M. Baker / Jezebel

Before I Had My First Child Nobody Told Me That Babies Are Boring

Toni Nagy / AlterNet

7 Best Songs About Drugs

Tony Newman / AlterNet

FilmSuck: Why America's Great Filmmaking Tradition Went Down the Drain

Eileen Jones / AlterNet

Ayn Rand Is for Children

David Sirota / Salon

New Orleans Coming Back Better Than Before? 5 New Reasons to Visit the Big Easy

Lynn Stuart Parramore / AlterNet

Why Criticizing 'Zero Dark Thirty' Is Not an Assault on Free Expression

Danny Goldberg / AlterNet

Wake Up, People! How to Get Past African-American Pessimism in the Age of Obama

Eugene Holley, Jr. / AlterNet

Wake Up, America! We're Paying Billions for Personal Financial Advice, and It's Making Us Poorer

Helaine Olen / Penguin Group (USA)

Does Lena Dunham Prove Writers Are as Toxic as Investment Bankers?

Keli Goff / The Huffington Post

Why I'm So Angry About Jodie Foster's Coming-Out Speech

Deb Baer / Huffington Post

5 Celebrities Who Shill For Pathetic Junk Food and Drinks

Lauren Kelley / AlterNet

Jared Diamond: Do Hunter-Gatherer Societies Raise Their Children Better Than Americans Do?

Jared Diamond / Viking Press

The Massive Human and Moral Cost of Gun Violence

Marian Wright Edelman / AlterNet

How Our Universities Have Been Turned into Corporate Marketing Centers

Jim Hightower / AlterNet

Is Sitting Worse Than Smoking?

Mary Elizabeth Williams / Salon

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