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Matt Taibbi, RollingStone.com. July 23, 2008. [298 total comments]
Whether we like it or not, America is in the midst of revolutionary economic changes that are crushing the middle class.
Kate Sheppard, In These Times. July 24, 2008. [161 total comments]
McCain is ignorant about pay equity, wants to overturn Roe v. Wade and likes to brag about his "sexual conquests" and visits to a strip club.
Andrew Lam, New America Media. July 24, 2008. [141 total comments]
Giving up a car isn't easy -- even amid the gas crisis. But the covetous American way of life has become unsustainable.
Bill Moyers, Bill Moyers Journal. July 22, 2008. [137 total comments]
Author Bill Greider explains to Moyers that the magic of the "free market" is coming to a close.
Jeremy Brecher, Brendan Smith, The Nation. July 19, 2008. [101 total comments]
Why we can't let the Bush Administration get away with its crimes.
Jordan Smith, Austin Chronicle. July 23, 2008. [100 total comments]
Just in time for the Olympics, the U.S. takes the gold medal in several drug use categories, according to a recent WHO report.
Gary Brecher, AlterNet. July 21, 2008. [100 total comments]
After six years of ignoring Afghanistan, things have gotten bad enough to force American officials to pay attention.
Matt Taibbi, RollingStone.com. July 19, 2008. [99 total comments]
Election season will be packed with horserace media distractions, but our economic situation is becoming a matter of life and death.
Al Gore, AlterNet. July 22, 2008. [94 total comments]
I challenge our nation to commit to producing 100 percent of our electricity from renewable energy and clean carbon-free sources within 10 years.
Frank Rich, The New York Times. July 22, 2008. [91 total comments]
If voters got a fair presentation of John McCain's economic plan, the idea of him winning the White House would cause mass panic.
Chris Hedges, Truthdig. July 22, 2008. [82 total comments]
The decline of newspapers is about the rise of the corporate state, the loss of civic and responsibility to inform the public.
Steven D., Booman TribuneAlterNet: PEEK. July 22, 2008. [74 total comments]
Who happens to like using his Taser quite a bit.
Ahmad al-Taii, Azzaman. July 22, 2008. [66 total comments]
The provincial authorities in the relatively peaceful region have warned of "immediate measures" to avenge the killing.
Patrick Cockburn, CounterPunch. July 23, 2008. [64 total comments]
John McCain and the White House have been clearly dismayed and embarrassed by Iraqi govt. support for Obama's withdrawal plan.
Don Hazen, AlterNet. July 24, 2008. [63 total comments]
A rally outside Fox News headquarters led by Color of Change delivers 620,000 signatures.
Marisa Taylor, Ode. July 19, 2008. [56 total comments]
Sitting in an anechoic (soundless) chamber, I realized silence isn't golden; it's creepy.
Martin A. Lee, AlterNet. July 19, 2008. [52 total comments]
Dr. James Ketchum tested a potent form of synthetic marijuana on soldiers to develop a secret weapon in the '60s. Now he's telling the tale.
Scott Thill, AlterNet. July 21, 2008. [52 total comments]
Bush has set about destroying the decades-old lenders for good, plunging his knife into the backs of programs that helped normal Americans.
Martha Rosenberg, AlterNet. July 24, 2008. [51 total comments]
Yet again, women are the industry's main targets.
Michael Leon Guerrero, Movement Vision Lab. July 24, 2008. [50 total comments]
Free market capitalism in the United States is by no means "free." It's time we recognize this and move past the destructive neoliberal agenda.
Roberto Lovato, Of America. July 19, 2008. [50 total comments]
As Obama prepares for his world tour, we must prepare to ask him the tough questions about imperialism and the U.S. global military machine.
Jonathan Stein, MotherJones.com. July 21, 2008. [47 total comments]
Obama has positions on broadband access and using the Internet as a tool to increase government accountability. McCain? Big nothing.
Katha Pollitt, TheNation.com. July 22, 2008. [47 total comments]
He's voted against contraception for more than 20 years, and yet doesn't even care or know enough to explain why.
Andy Worthington, Andy Worthington's Blog. July 22, 2008. [44 total comments]
A 5 to 4 ruling in the case of Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri legitimizes the president's right to indefinitely imprison "enemy combatants."
Rory O'Connor, AlterNet. July 25, 2008. [38 total comments]
1 in 150 kids have some form of autism. Saying that it's all just a racket to make money is beneath contempt.
Tom Hayden, Huffington Post. July 19, 2008. [38 total comments]
In a stunning breakthrough for Obama, Iraq's prime minister endorsed the Dem candidate's timeline for withdrawing combat troops from Iraq.
Emily Wilson, AlterNet. July 25, 2008. [36 total comments]
Veteran journalist Robert Scheer on the media's complicity in war, the rise of the neocons and how even Nixon got some things right.
Joseph Cirincione, Foreign Policy. July 24, 2008. [31 total comments]
Bucking the wishes of top Pentagon officials, Bush is pushing one of the largest military buildups in history.
Larisa Alexandrovna, Ig Publishing. July 21, 2008. [31 total comments]
Once a popular governor of Alabama, Siegelman was framed in a crooked trial and sent to prison by the corrupt Bush administration.
Ann Friedman, The American Prospect. July 22, 2008. [30 total comments]
The Year of the Woman was 16 years ago, and the number of women in elected office has flatlined. We have yet to break the 25 percent barrier.
Jessica Pupovac, AlterNet. July 23, 2008. [29 total comments]
More than 20 years after being tortured into giving confessions by Chicago police officers, dozens of black men remain behind bars.
Dave Zirin, Huffington PostAlterNet: Rights and Liberties. July 21, 2008. [28 total comments]
My Constitutionally protected dissent was monitored by the Feds.
Nicholas von Hoffman, The Nation. July 25, 2008. [27 total comments]
People are discovering they have been forced into a system in which others have gambled with their retirement savings and lost it.
Greg Grandin, The Nation. July 19, 2008. [26 total comments]
Readers of Fidel Castro's 'My Life' will hear all about the Cuban Revolution, but no apologies for its suppression of dissent.
KaeLyn, FeministeAlterNet: Sex and Relationships. July 23, 2008. [25 total comments]
"Legalization and support of sex work can open the door to helping the sex/adult industry become safer and healthier for sex workers."
Ivan Eland, Consortium News. July 24, 2008. [25 total comments]
The TSA's "no fly" terrorism watch list contains between 400,000 and 1,000,000 names. If you're on the list by mistake, good luck getting off of it.
Kate Bourne, RH Reality Check. July 23, 2008. [24 total comments]
What circumcision will and will not offer a man and his partner or partners.
Vanessa Richmond, The Tyee. July 22, 2008. [24 total comments]
Brangelina is in the business of making us look. Does evolutionary psychology explain why it's impossible to look away?
Steve Benen, The Carpetbagger ReportAlterNet: PEEK. July 21, 2008. [23 total comments]
James Dobson reconsiders the ‘circumstances,’ goes back on his word and warms up to McCain.
Marjorie Rosen, Women's eNews. July 21, 2008. [23 total comments]
A bountiful crop of summer movies starring women is outshining the usual male-driven action flicks. Let's hope studio heads get the message.
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