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7 Amazing Atheists Who Aren't Old White Guys

By Greta Christina / AlterNet

You've heard of Richard Dawkins. Charles Darwin. Mark Twain. ... There are some amazing atheists who just don't get the same credit.

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Who Was Worst Famous Poet Of The 20th Century?

By John Dolan / The Exiled

The Secret of Why Wealthy Americans Aren't Always the Most Charitable

By Alyssa Figueroa / AlterNet

25 Best Songs For Surviving the GOP Convention

AlterNet

Why Do So Many Southerners Think They're the Only Real Americans?

By Chuck Thompson / AlterNet

No Thanks for Thanksgiving

AlterNet Comics: Jen Sorensen on America's 'Diverse Coalition of White Men'

Five Reasons Why Petraeus (and Allen and the Shirtless Agent) Are the Ones to Blame

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5 Things "The Office" Taught Us

Julianne Escobedo Shepherd / AlterNet

The Case for Performance-Enhancing Drugs

Maia Szalavitz / The Fix

How Punk Rock Made Me a Lefty

Sarah Jaffe / AlterNet

How Joseph Rodriguez's Photographs Humanize the "Other America"

Michelle Chen / AlterNet

The Conservative Psyche: How Ordinary People Come to Embrace Paul Ryan's Cruelty

Joshua Holland / AlterNet

8 Atheist and Agnostic Scientists Who Changed the World

Greta Christina / AlterNet

Why Are No Women Celebrity Stoners Willing to Come Out of the Greenhouse?

Greta Gaines / AlterNet

8 Attacks at Houses of Worship in 11 Days -- What's Going On?

Uzma Kolsy / Salon.com

Why Do We Idolize Jerks?

Geoffrey Nunberg / Perseus Books

8 Killer Dance Movies With Great Politics

Julianne Escobedo Shepherd / AlterNet

Pay Someone to Name Your Child? How We Are Outsourcing Our Personal Affairs

Alyssa Figueroa, Don Hazen / AlterNet

Olympic Athletes Were Using Plenty of Drugs in London: Why Don't We Let Them Use the Safe Ones?

Russ Belville / AlteNet

Will Americans Ever Realize That a Good Life Is More Important Than Money?

David Korten / YES! Magazine

8 Crazy Fox Freakouts About the Olympics

Joshua Holland / AlterNet

Celeste and Jesse Forever: Why No Blacks Friends in the New Flick?

Rebecca Carroll / Ebony

The Media's Problem With Gay Rappers

Julianne Escobedo Shepherd / AlterNet

Six Million Dollar Men: Will Future Olympians Be Technologically Enhanced?

Charles Q. Choi / Txchnologist

10 Things You Can Do To Build Community On Your Block

Ross Chapin / YES! Magazine

Is It Finally Time to Let the South Secede?

Joshua Holland / AlterNet

Do You Eat Lunch Alone At Your Desk? Why We Need to Reclaim Our Lunch Break

Alyssa Figueroa / AlterNet

One Mom's Effort to Dampen Down the Media's Empty Nest Hysteria

Michele Weldon / AlterNet

America Doesn't Need Another 'Total Recall' Movie -- And it Says a Lot About Us That There Is One

Julianne Escobedo Shepherd / AlterNet

5 Ways That Technology Is Turning Your Car into a Nagging Parent

Leanna Kelly / The Faster Times

5 Moments Young Women Kicked Ass

Sarah Seltzer / AlterNet

Sikh Temple: In the Wake of Yet Another Massacre, What Will it Take to Stop the Gun Madness?

Joshua Holland / AlterNet

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