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Check out the 40 stories and blog posts most commented on in the past week.
Tana Ganeva, AlterNetAlterNet: PEEK. July 4, 2009. [348 total comments]
What is behind Palin's resignation from office?
Vanessa Richmond, The Tyee. June 29, 2009. [225 total comments]
Our current interest in children and parenting is neither normal nor historical. Nor is it very healthy for kids, parents and society at large.
Chris Hedges, Truthdig. June 30, 2009. [216 total comments]
Progressives must embrace emotion and passion to counter the force of corporate propaganda.
Benjamin Dangl, AlterNet. July 1, 2009. [201 total comments]
Contrary to most media accounts, President Manuel Zelaya wasn't seeking to abolish term limits.
Robert Jensen, Soft Skull Press. July 3, 2009. [165 total comments]
To imagine a just and sustainable world, we need not just a politics but a theology that can help us face our delusional arrogance.
AFPJuly 2, 2009. [161 total comments]
The museum argues, among other things, that war, famine and natural disasters are to blame on belief in evolution.
Amanda Marcotte, RH Reality Check. July 1, 2009. [161 total comments]
Marriage is failing many, many people. Why do we still idealize it?
Zach Carter, AlterNet. July 2, 2009. [131 total comments]
The CoC is the world's most powerful lobbying machine and it's working to make sure our money gets funneled to corporate execs.
Frank Schaeffer, AlterNet. July 1, 2009. [115 total comments]
Conservative pundits and GOP lawmakers must try to cure the sickness of their right-wing followers -- before it explodes again. Or don't they care?
Jill Harris, AlterNet. June 29, 2009. [103 total comments]
We must learn how to reduce the harms associated with our drug use, including reducing easily preventable deaths from overdose.
Roberto Lovato, AlterNet. June 29, 2009. [103 total comments]
Failure to take actions that send a clear message of condemnation will be devastating to the still-fragile U.S. image in Latin America.
Joshua Holland, AlterNet. June 29, 2009. [99 total comments]
Controlling health care costs isn't just necessary for the health of our economy -- it'd also be likely to boost personal incomes.
Daniel Tencer, Raw Story. July 4, 2009. [92 total comments]
Matt Taibbi explains how the company created market bubbles and then profited from the crash that followed.
Chalmers Johnson, Tomdispatch.com. July 3, 2009. [88 total comments]
We're building new "embassies" that run close to $1 billion and host countries keep jacking the rent for existing bases.
JoAnn Wypijewski, The Nation. July 3, 2009. [85 total comments]
Sanford is no more of a moralist than those in the party of Barack and Bill, the party of "don't ask, don't tell" and the Defense of Marriage Act.
Tom Jacobs, Miller-McCune.com. July 1, 2009. [78 total comments]
Studies show that the current economic climate may be eroding months or even years from the lives of those on the bleeding edge of insecurity.
David Bollier, On the Commons. June 30, 2009. [78 total comments]
The digital communications apparatus is crowding out deeper relationships and more deliberative modes of thinking.
Dahr Jamail, Investigative Fund at The Nation Institute. July 2, 2009. [76 total comments]
From suicide to desertion to refusal to deploy -- service members' dissent may be growing into something far larger.
Bob Herbert, The New York Times. June 29, 2009. [74 total comments]
How do you put together a consumer economy that works when the consumers are out of work?
Greta Christina, Greta Christina's Blog. July 4, 2009. [72 total comments]
The basic hierarchy and theology of the Catholic Church is a recipe for the abuse of power.
Patricia J. Williams, The Nation. July 4, 2009. [65 total comments]
Jackson's fame and fortune ensured he had few barriers whatever fancy seized him -- including his made-to-order kids.
AFPJuly 3, 2009. [65 total comments]
Amnesty accused Israeli forces of using children as human shields and conducting wanton attacks on civilians.
Joshua Holland, AlterNetAlterNet: World. July 1, 2009. [58 total comments]
A tipping point approaches.
BarbinMD, Daily KosAlterNet: PEEK. July 3, 2009. [55 total comments]
Gee, what a surprise.
Eric Lotke, Campaign for America's Future. June 30, 2009. [54 total comments]
Congressional Commission on financial fraud has the ability to put hundreds of Madoffs in jail and lead the way for real bank reform.
Emily Spence, Consortium News. June 30, 2009. [51 total comments]
One needn't return in time to the McCarthy Era to find many individuals who have been investigated and persecuted for holding vilified opinions.
Nate Carlile, Think ProgressAlterNet: PEEK. June 29, 2009. [51 total comments]
"Respect for others is non-negotiable at the U.S. Department of Labor"
Matt Corley, Think ProgressAlterNet: Sex and Relationships. June 30, 2009. [48 total comments]
Sigh ... it's actually not a new meme, just a pathetic one.
Deeky, ShakesvilleAlterNet: PEEK. July 2, 2009. [48 total comments]
Recent robocalls in Iowa would suggest yes.
Jim Hightower, AlterNet. July 4, 2009. [46 total comments]
Agitators created America, and it's their feisty spirit and outright rebelliousness that we celebrate on our national holiday.
Amanda Terkel, Think ProgressAlterNet: PEEK. July 1, 2009. [46 total comments]
Instead, Wurzelbacher is preparing to participate in the upcoming tea parties.
Staff, AlterNetAlterNet: Rights and Liberties. June 30, 2009. [45 total comments]
“I have never personally witnessed law enforcement officers behave this brutally and incompetently ...”
Scott Thill, AlterNet. July 3, 2009. [43 total comments]
Too much CO2 in the air and not enough oxygen in the oceans may release a toxic dose of hydrogen sulfide -- an unheralded executioner.
David Beers, The Tyee. July 4, 2009. [42 total comments]
Pollan gives a glimpse at the current state of food politics inside the White House and within his own home.
Eoin O'Carroll, Christian Science Monitor. June 30, 2009. [39 total comments]
A debate has ensued about whether to raze neighborhoods that have fallen into economic decay.
Marie Cocco, Washington Post Writers Group. July 2, 2009. [38 total comments]
Teens are having more condomless sex than they did in the 1990s. It's time for science-based sex ed, not moralizing.
PZ Myers, PharyngulaAlterNet: PEEK. July 2, 2009. [37 total comments]
The old fossil is Pat Buchanan, who has published a freakishly antiquated diatribe against Darwin.
Martin Garbus, Huffington PostAlterNet: PEEK. June 30, 2009. [37 total comments]
Obama's attempt at secrecy, continued torture and repression of speech must be stopped.
Bruce Friedrich, AlterNet. July 2, 2009. [33 total comments]
Although some people still attempt to justify foie gras production, science backs up common sense: It's foul.
Steve Benen, Washington MonthlyAlterNet: PEEK. July 1, 2009. [32 total comments]
Former CIA official Michael Scheuer has taken some provocative policy positions over the years, but I never thought he'd go this far.
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