AlterNet's Most E-mailed Stories and Blog Posts
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Martin Longman, AlterNet. May 21, 2012. [372 e-mails sent]
The last time things got this bad was about 150 years ago -- and we needed a Civil War to resolve it.
Gar Alperovitz, AlterNet. May 20, 2012. [299 e-mails sent]
Activists, theorists, organizations and ordinary citizens are rebuilding the American political-economic system from the ground up.
Joshua Holland, AlterNet. May 22, 2012. [266 e-mails sent]
The Nobel laureate talks about Washington, Europe and the bizarre alternate universe inhabited by deficit fear-mongering media and political elites.
David Rosen, AlterNet. May 20, 2012. [221 e-mails sent]
Google appears to have morphed from a corporation that proclaims, “Don’t be evil” to one insisting that users “Join the Borg.”
Adam Lee, AlterNet. May 24, 2012. [166 e-mails sent]
Here are some non-believers who left a profound mark.
Michael Fumento, Salon. May 24, 2012. [150 e-mails sent]
A former conservative who worked for Reagan and wrote for National Review says the new hysterical right cares nothing for truth or dignity.
Mark Howard, AlterNet. May 22, 2012. [144 e-mails sent]
A new study finds that Congress speaks at almost a full grade level lower than it did seven years ago. Meet the 10 conservatives dragging down their collective intelligence.
Ellen Cantarow, TomDispatch.com. May 20, 2012. [143 e-mails sent]
Midwestern rural communities are being devastated by energy companies searching for a form of sand to use in their destructive fracking operations elsewhere in rural America.
Sara Robinson, AlterNet. May 21, 2012. [119 e-mails sent]
In one short decade, home ownership has gone from being the Holy Grail of middle-class financial achievement to a very risky financial ball-and-chain.
Katherine Stewart, Comment Is Free. May 21, 2012. [114 e-mails sent]
Christian-nationalist zealots are rewriting US history, airbrushing slavery and enshrining creationism in Texas schools.
Alex Pareene, Salon. May 22, 2012. [110 e-mails sent]
It has become an exclusive, expensive elite networking experience. Strip away the hype and you're left with a reasonably good video podcast with delusions of grandeur.
Jill Richardson, AlterNet. May 23, 2012. [98 e-mails sent]
The G8 scheme does nothing to address the problems that are at the core of hunger and malnutrition but will serve only to further poverty and inequality.
Trevor Potter, Campaign Legal Center. May 25, 2012. [94 e-mails sent]
The Supreme Court's campaign finance legacy has undermined the "whole purpose of the Constitution," to have a "functioning, representative" government.
Susan Johnson, Psychotherapy Networker. May 22, 2012. [87 e-mails sent]
Emotions are necessary for survival. But they can also spin out of control.
Mark Ames, The Daily Banter. May 21, 2012. [81 e-mails sent]
Citgroup's outgoing chairman Dick Parsons' career is the perfect example of how 1 percenters reward utter failure at the expense of the rest of us.
Michelle Chen, The New Press. May 22, 2012. [80 e-mails sent]
In this excerpt from the new book "Labor Rising: The Past and Future of Working People in America," Michelle Chen looks at young workers from Egypt to Wisconsin.
Tara Lohan, AlterNet. May 21, 2012. [75 e-mails sent]
New corporate models focus on ownership, governance, sustainability and social benefit.
s.e. smith, AlterNet. May 22, 2012. [75 e-mails sent]
As school budgets are cut, disabled students are being handed over to police for behavioral infractions -- and handcuffs are just the beginning of what they're forced to endure.
Soraya Chemaly, AlterNet. May 23, 2012. [68 e-mails sent]
Women are powerful beyond words, because they threaten to unravel the control of corrupt men who abuse their authority.
Susan Cheever, The Fix. May 22, 2012. [61 e-mails sent]
Obesity and how to treat it are big in the media. So why doesn't HBO's new series, The Weight of the Nation, even mention addiction?
Chris Hellman, Mattea Kramer, TomDispatch.com. May 22, 2012. [58 e-mails sent]
If you've heard a number for how much the U.S. spends on the military, it's probably in the neighborhood of $530 billion. But that's merely the beginning of it.
Tracy Clark-Flory, Salon. May 20, 2012. [54 e-mails sent]
Early vibrators were hand-cranked, two-person jobs -- and prescribed by doctors. How far we've come since then.
Robert Parry, Consortium News. May 21, 2012. [52 e-mails sent]
You can track the arc of modern American journalism from its apex at the Pentagon Papers and Watergate curving downward to Iran-Contra before the nadir of Bush’s war in Iraq.
Brita Belli, E Magazine. May 23, 2012. [50 e-mails sent]
As emissions continue to rise, the world's oceans are becoming corrosive, threatening shellfish, corals and the entire ocean food web.
Theresa Ralston, AlterNet. May 20, 2012. [47 e-mails sent]
826 has blossomed from a noble experiment into one of the top innovators and influencers in the education field.
RJ Eskow, Campaign for America's Future. May 23, 2012. [43 e-mails sent]
Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, and JPMorgan Chase all have a history of the kinds of unethical and/or illegal behavior that might explain what happened with Facebook.
Bill Moyers, BillMoyers.com. May 20, 2012. [40 e-mails sent]
Bill Moyers talks to Simon Johnson, once chief economist of the International Monetary Fund and now MIT professor, about the (possible) fall of Jamie Dimon and JPMorgan.
Bill Moyers, Michael Winship, BillMoyers.com. May 25, 2012. [40 e-mails sent]
If we really want to honor the Americans who gave their lives fighting for their country, we must redouble our efforts to make sure we’re worthy of their sacrifice.
Arun Gupta, AlterNet. May 24, 2012. [38 e-mails sent]
Is the government unleashing the same methods of entrapment against OWS that it has used against left movements and Muslim-Americans?
Lauren Kelley, AlterNet. May 25, 2012. [38 e-mails sent]
The FTC says POM Wonderful has engaged in deceptive advertising. Now the company is doubling down on its false claims.
Ellen Brown, AlterNet. May 23, 2012. [35 e-mails sent]
Rather than feeding off the community, banking can nourish the community and local economy.
Jada Thacker, Consortium News. May 22, 2012. [29 e-mails sent]
That the United States is “a global force” has been an undeniable, historical fact since before our founding as a nation.
Michael Lind, Salon. May 23, 2012. [29 e-mails sent]
Social conservatives are fighting a losing battle — not against a global secular humanist conspiracy, but against the pill, the car, and the Internet.
Russ Baker, WhoWhatWhy.com. May 20, 2012. [28 e-mails sent]
Not all politicians are created equal. And not all are treated equally. Therein lies an issue deserving a closer look: whether vulnerable Democrats are targeted for destruction.
Matt Reichel, AlterNet. May 21, 2012. [27 e-mails sent]
Veteran Scott Olsen returns his medal, nurses fight for their rights, and police crack skulls in the latest demonstration of 99% outrage.
Lynn Parramore, AlterNet. May 24, 2012. [26 e-mails sent]
How long will we keep getting Zuckered?
Nicholas Powers, AlterNet. May 22, 2012. [23 e-mails sent]
The modern comedian's latest spoof and the classic "Great Dictator" share the same goal of ridiculing the powerful.
Steven Rosenfeld, AlterNet. May 22, 2012. [21 e-mails sent]
Imprecise messages and imperfect messengers converge as Washington looks to solve the Citizens United mess.
Adele M. Stan, AlterNet. May 22, 2012. [21 e-mails sent]
Even if the Obama campaign's anti-Bain offensive is nothing more than a bid to ensure a win for its candidate, in the long run, the campaign is doing America a service.
Gary Younge, Comment Is Free. May 20, 2012. [20 e-mails sent]
Much like the NATO summit, the system is set up not to spread wealth but to preserve and protect it, not to relieve chaos but to contain and punish it.
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