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

By Jen Sorensen / AlterNet

"Traditional America" is freaking out.

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

By Laura Gottesdiener / AlterNet

Hey, Liberals: You Haven’t Won The Culture War

By Andrew O'Hehir / Salon.com

Living With the Contradictions: A Human Potential Visionary Talks About Our Infinite Potential and How We Also Block Progress

By Charles Eisenstein / Reality Sandwich

America: Love It Or Be Left Behind

By Joan Walsh / Salon.com

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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How Raw Capitalism Is Devouring American Culture

Scott Timberg / Salon

How The Media's Recent Defense of Using "Illegal Immigrant" Misses an Entire History

Alyssa Figueroa / AlterNet

Can One New Film Spread Drug War Outrage Across the Globe?

Helen Redmond / AlterNet

Puppets Pissed at Romney for Threatening to Kill Big Bird; March on Washington

Adele M. Stan / AlterNet

I Grew Up in the Kind of Family Beloved By Republicans -- And It Was Hell

Laura Bogart / Salon.com

How Patriarchal, Christian Backlash Politics Have Only Become More Vicious

Arthur Goldwag / Salon.com

The Cultists Lose Their Minds After Barack Obama Says Ayn Rand is for Teenagers

Roy Edroso / Alicublog

Does TV Help Make Americans Passive and Accepting of Authority?

Bruce E. Levine / AlterNet

The U.S. Elite's Favorite Television Show: Showtime's 'Homeland' Demonizes Arabs and Prepares Americans For Bombing Iran

Joseph Massad / Al Jazeera English

What if a Camera Could Document Your Entire Life?

Owen Hatherley / Comment Is Free

“The Revisionaries”: Texas Schoolbook Battle — Crazier Than You Thought!

Andrew O'Hehir / Salon

Why the Protestant Work Ethic Is a Menace to Society

Robert S. Becker / AlterNet

Crosby, Stills & Nash: Surprisingly Relevant and They Still Sound Good

Don Hazen / AlterNet

Network Splits With Actress Over Gluten: Is Celiac a Real Malady or a Dietary Choice?

Mary Elizabeth Williams / Salon

Oral Sex, Yoga, and God's Eternal Wrath: Inside the New Hipster Megachurch That Tells Modern Women to Submit

Alison Sargent / Bitch Magazine

Why Are There So Few Female Plutocrats?

Chrystia Freeland / The Penguin Press

Wake Up! Our World Is Dying and We're All in Denial

Mary Pipher / Psychotherapy Networker

10 of the Most Offensive Clothing Items Ever Created

Lauren Kelley / AlterNet

Is Romney's Outdated View of Family a Threat to Modern Society?

Nicole Rodgers / Role Reboot

7 Brilliant and Funny Ways Critics Panned Romney's 'Binders Full of Women' Gaffe

Lauren Kelley / AlterNet

How to Talk to Teenagers Who Don't Want to Talk to You

Janet Sasson Edgette / Psychotherapy Networker

Confessions of a Kleptomaniac

Dylan Lavene / The Fix

Boston Rapper Takes on His Most Violent Enemy Yet: Wall Street

Laura Gottesdiener / AlterNet

Can You Date Someone With Different Political Views Than You?

Alyssa Figueroa / AlterNet

Is 'Sex Addiction' a Legitimate Excuse for Cheating?

Scott Alexander Hess / The Fix

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