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Why Has Humanity Always Fantasized About the Capture and Rape of Women?

Lynn Stuart Parramore
AlterNet
Misogyny’s deepest roots are exposed in the endless repetition of stories about capture and rape.

Has Obama Presented a New Plan to Fight Terror or More of the Same?

Marcy Wheeler
Salon
Obama admits "No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare” -- but fails to offer way out.

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Cops Go Undercover at High School to Bust Special-Needs Kid for Pot: Why Are Police So Desperate to Throw Kids in Jail?

Kristen Gwynne
AlterNet
The school-to-prison pipeline strikes again.

10 Common Ideas About Sex -- That May Be Totally Wrong

Liz Langley
AlterNet
Do women lose interest in sex as they age? How safe is it to have sex post-heart attack?

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Obama Speech Interrupted: "Medea Benjamin Gets in News Conferences Using 'CodePink Magic'" (WATCH)

Alyssa Figueroa
AlterNet
During Obama's speech on Thursday, CODEPINK's co-founder Medea Benjamin demanded the closure of GITMO and the end of his killer drone program.
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The Secret Donors Behind the Center for American Progress and Other Think Tanks

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Atheists Rejoice! Pope Francis Says You're O.K.

Watch: Jon Stewart Asks Bill O'Reilly if Obama Scandals Bring Him 'Sexual Arousal'

In the Age of Social Media, People Say They Want More Real Friends

How Our Massive Homeland Security Apparatus Does the Bidding of the Big Banks

Beau Hodai / PR Watch

Feet to the Fire: Time to Hold the Big Energy Villains Who Kill the Earth While Making a Killing Accountable

Tom Engelhardt / Tom Dispatch

How Policy Nihilists in the Senate Doomed LGBT Immigrants

Alex Pareene / Salon

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Average CEO Salary Reached A New Record High Of $9.7 Million In 2012

Aviva Shen / Think Progress  

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America’s Newest Public Enemy No1: The Humble Pressure Cooker

How Coca-Cola's Ruthless Business Tactics Created a Despicable Global Powerhouse

Shocker: Republicans Fight Obama Plan to Privatize the Hugely Popular, Cheap Energy Source of the TVA

Atheists Rising: Wolf Blitzer Learns a Lesson and Arizona Lawmaker Says "Don't Bow Your Heads"

Mary Elizabeth Williams / Salon

How Racism Turned an Interracial Family's Trip to Walmart into a Kidnapping Investigation

Kristen Gwynne / AlterNet

NYPD Stops of (Mostly) People of Color Wrong 90 Percent of the Time: 'High Error Rate,' Judge Says

Kristen Gwynne / AlterNet

Here's What a Real Political Cover-up Looks Like -- Orchestrated by the Right-Wingers Who Know It Best

Rooftop Revolution: How Solar Energy Is Putting Power Back in the Hands of the People

The Internet Is Slaying the Middle Class

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The Inside Story of a Harvard Dissertation Too Racist for the Heritage Foundation

Zack Beauchamp / Think Progress  

Austerity Kills: Crippling Economic Policies Causing Global Health Crisis

Amy Goodman, David Stuckler, Sanjay Basu / Democracy Now!

Obama Shows He's Serious About Fixing Our Screwed-Up Election System

Steven Rosenfeld / AlterNet

The Federal Govt. Wants the Nuclear Industry to Be One Big Secret

Feds' Bogus Threat of Terrorism to Hunt Down Black Liberation Activist

Will Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter Stop Meaning Anything When Climate Change Hits?

How America's National Security Apparatus -- in Partnership With Big Corporations -- Cracked Down on Dissent

Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn Demands Tornado Relief Be Offset by Cuts Elsewhere

Alex Kane / AlterNet

Moyers/Winship: Corporate Greed Is Poisoning America — Literally

Bill Moyers, Michael Winship / BillMoyers.com

How America Became a Third World Country

Mattea Kramer, Jo Comerford / TomDispatch

US Marshals Hold Innocent Family At Gun Point, Tell Them Not to Move Even After They Realize They've Got Wrong House

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Police Tase Foreclosed Upon Homeowners Protesting Criminal Bankers, Criminal Bankers Continue Facing No Repercussions

Red State Hypocrites: Inhofe and Coburn

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Watch: The Touching Moment a Mother Sees Her Young Son Alive and Well for the First Time Since Tornado Hit

6 Ways Oklahoma's GOP Senators Have Fought to Undermine Relief Funding

Rebecca Leber / Think Progress

It's Time to Step Up and Help the Workers of Bangladesh

Jodie Gummow / AlterNet

Horrifying New Trend: Posting Rapes to Facebook

Mary Elizabeth Williams / Salon

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Elderly Woman Dies in Court "Gasping for Breath" After Sheriff's Deputies "Callously" Refused to Give Her Medication, Daughter Claims

80-Year-Old North Carolina Educator: Why I Got Arrested Protesting Right-Wing Agenda for Schools

The Long, Sordid History of the American Right and Racism

Nerds, Jocks and Jailed Dissidents: Inside the World of Israel’s High School War Resisters

Our Govt. Is Turning into a Surveillance State That's Almost Impossible to Stop

Murtaza Hussain / Al Jazeera English

Death Toll Continues to Rise After Devastating Oklahoma Tornado

AFP

Soda Industry Cashes In on Govt. Food Assistance Programs to Tune of $4 Bilion a Year

Stan Cox / AlterNet

Bill Moyers: 12 Ways You Can Avoid Toxic Chemicals

Lauren Feeney / Bill Moyers  

12-Year-Old Girl Raped, Video Posted to Facebook by Alleged Attackers

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Corporations Are Stealing Billions in Tax Breaks, While the Confused, Screwed Citizenry Turn On Each Other

Robert Reich / Robert Reich's Blog  

The 4 Big Ways That Insatiable Corporate Hunger for Profits Has Devastated American Life -- and the World Along with It

Smashing the Absurd Myth That More Guns Make Us Safer

Sean McElwee / AlterNet

Teen Girl Faces Felony Charge Over Lesbian Relationship, Mom Blames "Religious Zealot Parents"

Alex Kane / AlterNet

Tourists Encouraged to Gawk At, Mock Poor in Horrifying "GHETTO" Bus Tour in Bronx

Alex Kane / AlterNet

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GOPer Who Got Millions in Farm Subsidies Thinks the Poor Should Starve Rather Than Get Food Stamps

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