AlterNet's Most E-mailed Stories and Blog Posts
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Emily Michele, ButterBeliever.com. February 4, 2012. [331 e-mails sent]
Outrageous salaries, drug company ties, and less than a dime of every dollar looks for a cure.
Arun Gupta, AlterNet. February 7, 2012. [273 e-mails sent]
New research goes beyond the New York Times to show just how disturbing labor conditions at Foxconn, the "Chinese hell factory," really are.
Lee Fang, Republic Report. February 4, 2012. [268 e-mails sent]
Some of America's wealthiest Republicans flew into Palm Springs last weekend to update their stealthy political strategy for 2012.
Emily Badger, Miller-McCune.com. February 5, 2012. [166 e-mails sent]
The GOP seems to understand a psychological phenomenon that researchers are studying: conservatives appear to be motivated by fear in a way that liberals are not.
Sarah Jaffe, AlterNet. February 8, 2012. [123 e-mails sent]
Right-wingers claim Obama and Democrats across the country are waging a war on religion -- and of course, conservatives are the civilian casualties.
Steven Rosenfeld, AlterNet. February 7, 2012. [103 e-mails sent]
A movement to reform the Electoral College and elect the president based on the national popular vote has half the states it needs.
June Carbone, AlterNet. February 4, 2012. [86 e-mails sent]
Prosecutors like Eric Schneiderman need cops on the beat to put financial crooks behind bars. But thanks to Bush, these cops are missing in action.
Sarah Jaffe, AlterNet. February 5, 2012. [86 e-mails sent]
Jan Brewer has decided to get in on the union-busting action, introducing a bill that makes Ohio's and Wisconsin's attacks on public workers look mild.
Sarah Seltzer, AlterNet. February 7, 2012. [83 e-mails sent]
How many of the rumors are inflated, and how many get at the real heart of why people responded to this decision with so much outrage?
Paul Armentano, AlterNet. February 8, 2012. [79 e-mails sent]
At the same time public support for marijuana legalization reached record highs, Obama shifted from one time medicinal cannabis sympathizer to White House weed-whacker.
Mike Konczal, Salon. February 5, 2012. [76 e-mails sent]
From schools to prisons, outsourcing government's works typically ends with cronyism, waste and unaccountability
Lauren Kelley, AlterNet. February 4, 2012. [74 e-mails sent]
The big win here is that an anti-choice power play failed in the court of public opinion.
Bill Moyers, Moyers & Company. February 5, 2012. [68 e-mails sent]
Bill Moyers explains what we need to know about community activist Saul Alinsky, and why Newt Gingrich might be so afraid of him.
Erik Loomis, AlterNet. February 8, 2012. [67 e-mails sent]
We've won a temporary reprieve from the Keystone XL Pipeline, but there are still places greatly at risk in the country.
Max Blumenthal, al-akhbar. February 5, 2012. [66 e-mails sent]
Should Mitt Romney make it to the White House, his Middle East policy and plan for Iran may be as hawkish as that of Bush Junior, thanks to Eliot Cohen.
Brendan Fischer, AlterNet. February 5, 2012. [62 e-mails sent]
The embattled Wisconsin governor hires two young Republicans who are veterans of no-holds-barred campaigns and propaganda efforts.
Anna Lekas Miller, AlterNet. February 6, 2012. [62 e-mails sent]
Occupy comes out to support a lawsuit that hopes to turn the tables on corporate farming behemoth Monsanto.
Christopher D. Cook, Salon. February 8, 2012. [60 e-mails sent]
I call myself frayed white collar -- part of the privileged poor. I'm a semi-accomplished, mid-career journalist and writer, but now I'm hurtling precipitously toward poverty.
Joshua Holland, AlterNet. February 4, 2012. [59 e-mails sent]
DC is the most liberal region of the country, but until now all the talk on the radio dial skewed right.
Tana Ganeva, AlterNet. February 4, 2012. [55 e-mails sent]
When it comes to a spate of new technologies, our privacy protections are wildly outdated.
Tracy Clark-Flory, Salon. February 7, 2012. [55 e-mails sent]
Sex therapist Marty Klein's message is antithetical to the sex advice found everywhere from self-help books to the supermarket checkout line.
Chauncey DeVega, AlterNet. February 5, 2012. [54 e-mails sent]
Conservatives have created a story of white victimhood, because it is easier than critically engaging the real problems facing America.
Adele M. Stan, AlterNet. February 7, 2012. [52 e-mails sent]
Birth control is under attack by all of the candidates competing for the Republican presidential nomination.
Sarah Seltzer, AlterNet. February 8, 2012. [50 e-mails sent]
The real opposition here isn't about conscience, it's about women and sex.
Ari Berman, The Nation. February 4, 2012. [46 e-mails sent]
Republicans—to protect and expand their gains from 2010— are diluting the minority vote in swing districts held by white Democrats.
Peter Montague, Maria B. Pellerano, AlterNet. February 7, 2012. [42 e-mails sent]
The fund for lead-poisoning prevention was almost entirely eliminated. And here's why this is such a big deal.
Lynn Parramore, AlterNet. February 7, 2012. [41 e-mails sent]
If she doesn't find a way to offer a mea culpa, some of her devotees may desert her shrine and find another idol.
Jacqueline Detwiler, The Fix. February 9, 2012. [41 e-mails sent]
A brief journey through time, from ancient Sumeria to modern New Jersey, uncovers the mysterious origins of the world's most beloved substances.
Ari LeVaux, AlterNet. February 8, 2012. [31 e-mails sent]
An opinion piece in the journal Nature suggests ways the government could regulate added sugar, including a sugar tax, distribution controls and age limits.
Nancy L. Cohen, Counterpoint Press. February 5, 2012. [30 e-mails sent]
With a little pharmaceutical ingenuity, the double standard relaxed its clawing grip on female humanity.
Laura Clawson, Daily Kos. February 6, 2012. [27 e-mails sent]
That's what's on the rise: Management attempting to exercise control over their workers -- in a brutal display of power. Give in to us or lose your paycheck right now.
Yves Smith, Naked Capitalism . February 9, 2012. [27 e-mails sent]
Forty-nine of 50 states have agreed to join the so-called mortgage settlement. Here's why it's a major letdown.
Eleanor J. Bader, RH Reality Check. February 9, 2012. [27 e-mails sent]
Some leave because they oppose the church's doctrinal stance. Others are turned off by its hostility to science. Others reject the limitations placed on sex.
Bill McKibben, TomDispatch.com. February 9, 2012. [26 e-mails sent]
Telling the truth about climate change would require pulling away the biggest punchbowl in history. That's why the fight is so pitched.
Tina Dupuy, AlterNet. February 8, 2012. [25 e-mails sent]
It's clear from advertising that the market does not favor the GOP's social agenda.
Peter Van Buren, TomDispatch.com. February 9, 2012. [25 e-mails sent]
From Manning to Kiriakou, critics are aggressively targeted as the White House turns a blind eye to abuses.
Editorial Staff, AlterNet. February 6, 2012. [23 e-mails sent]
Frank talks about Communism, the Tea Party and his new book, "Pity the Billionaire."
Joshua Holland, AlterNet. February 8, 2012. [20 e-mails sent]
In the era of Citizens United, early money from deep-pocketed donors played a major role in shaping the GOP field.
Sarah Jaffe, AlterNet. February 8, 2012. [18 e-mails sent]
Santorum's success in the Midwest has come through a combination of race and class-based grievances as well as his appeal to social conservatives.
Jamilah King, ColorLines. February 5, 2012. [15 e-mails sent]
The NFL’s Players Association, the union that represents the league’s athletes, has come out in opposition to Indiana's proposed Right to Work legislation.
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