Culture

Conservative Southern Values Revived: How a Brutal Strain of American Aristocrats Have Come to Rule America

By Sara Robinson / AlterNet

America didn't used to be run like an old Southern slave plantation, but we're headed that way now. How did that happen?

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How Jenny McCarthy's Playboy Cover at 40 Hurts, Not Helps, Older Women

By Julianne Escobedo Shepherd / AlterNet

The City of The Future: It's Changing -- But Into What?

By Michael Keller / Txchnologist

Five Lessons in Human Goodness From "The Hunger Games"

By Jeremy Adam Smith / YES! Magazine

It is No Mystery: The Real Reason Conservatives Keep Winning

By Joe Brewer / Cognitive Policy Works

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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Confederate Vampires: How Abraham Lincoln Fights for the 99 Percent

Nicholas Powers / AlterNet

Memo to Rich Conservatives -- Bruce Springsteen Doesn't Love You Back

Sarah Jaffe / AlterNet

Finally, Some Subversive Action Princesses in New Films: "Snow White" and "Brave"

Jaclyn Friedman / Comment Is Free

What Science Can -- And Can't -- Tell Us About Life, Death and Happiness

Laura Miller / Salon

"Newsroom" Star Emily Mortimer: Americans Are Dangerously Uninformed

Willa Paskin / Salon

"Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter": 8 Antebellum Vampire Zombies in Politics and Pop Culture

Scott Thill / AlterNet

Glenn Beck Declares War on 'Glee'

Sarah Jaffe / AlterNet

Television Hit 'Girls' Postmortem: Still Racist and Classist

Julianne Escobedo Shepherd / AlterNet

Stranded in Tiny Malaysian Town, I Learned About 'Yuan Fen,' One of Life's Most Beautiful Lessons

Christina Ammon / AlterNet

A Year After The Non-Apocalypse: Where Are Harold Camping's Believers Now?

Tom Bartlett / Religion Dispatches

Hip-Hop Foodies: When Rappers Turn to the Kitchen

Julianne Escobedo Shepherd / AlterNet

Does Your Doctor Have a Fake Degree? The Billion-Dollar Industry That Has Sold Over a Million Fake Diplomas

John Bear, Allen Ezell / AlterNet

"Mad Men's" Genius Fifth Season

Willa Paskin / Salon

Why Conservatives Wrongly Blame Single Moms for the Disastrous Failures of the Right-Wing Economic Model

Joshua Holland / AlterNet

How Urban Outfitters Peddles Ironic Conservatism, Hipster Racism and Other Terrible Values

Lauren Kelley / AlterNet

America: Where It's Easier to Get a Gun Than Good Mental Health Care

Valerie Tarico / AlterNet

New Cure Programs Are Popping Up, But Should Sex Be Considered an Addiction?

Hunter R. Slaton / The Fix

The Secret of Our Obsession With Anne Boleyn

Lynn Stuart Parramore / AlterNet

"Prometheus": Ridley Scott's Dazzling, Sci-fi Spectacle

Andrew O'Hehir / Salon

RIP Ray Bradbury, My Friend Since I Was 15

Kitsap River / Daily Kos

What Does Our Obsession With Zombie Stories Tell Us About Our Politics?

Kristin Rawls / AlterNet

Is Gourmet Foodie Culture Killing the Music Festival?

Julianne Escobedo Shepherd / AlterNet

It's Time to Give Yourself a Break: 4 Unexpected U.S. Southern Coastal Retreats That Won't Break the Bank

Lynn Stuart Parramore / AlterNet

How Ronald Reagan Ignited Bruce Springsteen's Politics

Marc Dolan / W. W. Norton & Company

"Push Girls:" A Look at the New Reality TV Show About Four Attractive, Wheelchair-bound Women

Willa Paskin / Salon

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