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The Problem with Best Films of All-Time Lists -- Even Great Directors Screw Them Up

By Eileen Jones / eXiled Online

A major film institute says that Vertigo is now the best movie ever, a spot Citizen Kane held for 50 years. What gives?

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What Mitt Romney’s Body Language Is Trying to Tell Us

By Leslie Savan / The Nation

The Ridiculous Discussion Surrounding Gymnast Gabby Douglas' Hair

By Veronica Wells / Madame Noire

Twilight Fantasy Rupture: Why I'm Glad Kristen Stewart Cheated

By Julianne Escobedo Shepherd / AlterNet

Why We Can't Depend On Activists To Create Change

By Jonathan Matthew Smucker / Devoke The Apocalypse

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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What Some of the Greatest Science Fiction Writers Thought 2012 Would Be Like

Sara Robinson / AlterNet

Did Muslims Save Jews From Nazis? New Film 'Besa' Reveals Hidden Past

Steven Rosenfeld / AlterNet

Mitt Romney Disses Palestinians, Mexicans -- Who’s Next?

Ira Chernus / AlterNet

America’s Paranoid History

Andrew O'Hehir / Salon

The Top 5 Most Hypocritical Corporate Sponsors

Alyssa Figueroa / AlterNet

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

Joshua Holland / AlterNet

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

Carole Cadwalladr / The Observer UK

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

Danny Goldberg / Dissent Magazine

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

Eric Hague / McSweeney's

Nicki Minaj's Retroactive Feminism

Julianne Escobedo Shepherd / AlterNet

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

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