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Big Lie: America Doesn't Have #1 Richest Middle-Class in the World...We're Ranked 27th!

Les Leopold
AlterNet
America is the richest country on Earth. We have the most millionaires, the most billionaires—and a increasingly poor "middle class."

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70 Percent of Americans 'Emotionally Disconnected' at Work: Shocking Poll Reveals Workforce Zombieland

Steven Rosenfeld
AlterNet
Nearly one in five hates work so much they sabotage their employers.

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Meet America’s Most Shameless Defender of the 1 Percent, Harvard Economist Greg Mankiw

Lynn Stuart Parramore
AlterNet
Is there anything Mankiw won’t say to serve plunderers and plutocrats?

Gringos on the Ayahuasca Trail ... Young Americans Are Flocking to S. America for Pychedelic Promise

Lisa Stansberry
The Fix
Young travelers flock to Bolivia and Peru to do hallucinogenic ayahuasca, which allegedly has spiritual, therapeutic qualities

An American City Govt. Seeks the Cruel Power to Banish People from the Streets in... Vermont?

William Boardman
Reader Supported News
Burlington Vt.'s city ordinance allows the immediate and arbitrary banishment of people from public streets with no due process of law and no effective appeal process.
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Celebrate the Defeat of the Granny Bashers! Billionaire-backed Campaign Fails to Cut Social Security and Medicare

Dean Baker / Beat the Press  

When Drones Guard the Pipeline: The Militarization of Our Fossil Fuels

Guys Actually Do Worry About Sex on the First Date

Argentine Sex Workers Fight De-Humanizing Abuse with Legislation, Graffiti

Roberta Radu / The Guardian

9 Ways the Right’s Ayn Randian Experiment Screws Over the Young

RJ Eskow / Blog for Our Future

Why America & China's Future Plans Are Totally Nuts

James Howard Kunstler / Kunstler.com

Texas Republican Says He Wants to Ban Abortion Because ... Fetuses Masturbate?

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Bank of America Whistle-blower Bombshell: “We Were Told to Lie” to Rip Off Borrowers

NYU’s Gilded Age: Students Struggle With Debt While Vacation Homes Are Lavished on the University’s Elite

When the Government Asks, Tech Companies Usually Turn Over User Information

7 Things to Know About the Draconian GOP Bill That Would Force Women to Birth Babies Without Brains

Tara Culp-Ressler / Think Progress

Will Legalizing Pot Destroy Humboldt Or Transform It into the Napa Valley of Weed?

Emily Brady / AlterNet

Nigella Lawson Apparently Choked by Her Husband in the Middle of a Restaurant -- and Nobody Stepped in to Stop It

Mary Elizabeth Williams / Salon

Permanent Washington’s Backlash to Edward Snowden

The New Generation of American Patriots Are the Whistlebowers Who Came of Age After 9/11

U.S. Supreme Court Rejects GOP Voter Supression Tactic

This Week in Poverty: Congress Turns Its Back on Rural America

Israel Is Stirs the Pot in Syria

Jonathan Cook / CounterPunch

Everything Americans Think They Know About Drugs Is Wrong: A Scientist Explodes the Myths

Kristen Gwynne / AlterNet

Obama and His Allies Say the Govt Doesn't Listen to Your Phone Calls -- But the FBI Begs to Differ

Max Blumenthal / AlterNet

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Texas Jailers Ran a 'Rape Camp' Behind Bars, Women Claim

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Edward Snowden Q and A: "The US Government Destroyed Any Possibility of a Fair Trial at Home"

15-Year-Old Girl Humiliated By TSA Officer Who Told Her to 'Cover Yourself'

5 Ways the Global Security State Can't Stop Itself from Abusing Our Privacy and Destroying People's Lives

Christian College Expels Student Over Lesbian Relationship--And Then Demands $6,000 in Tuition

Alex Kane / AlterNet

How Corporate Greed Is Starving Our Public School System

Paul Buchheit / AlterNet

Miss Utah Bombs While Answering Question About Gender Wage Gap

Katie McDonough / Salon

Lindsey Graham: GOP in a Death Spiral

White Suburban Soccer Moms Love NSA Surveillance

Minors Who Commit Sex Crimes Shouldn't Be Branded for Life as Sex Offenders

If We Can't Stop Corporations from Hiding in Cayman Islands to Avoid Taxes, We All Need to Become Pirates

911 Callers Who Report Overdoses Shouldn't Get Hit with Drug Charges

Tessie Castillo / AlterNet

Fracking Is Already Straining U.S. Water Supplies

Tom Kentworthy / Think Progress

Are the Young People That Shrinks Label as Disruptive Really Anarchists with a Healthy Resistance to Oppressive Authority?

Bruce E. Levine / AlterNet

Edward Snowden Had a Breaking Point, Where He Decided to Risk It All to Fix This Country -- What's Yours?

How the Transition Movement Is Spreading to Towns Across America

Do Women Have Less Fun Than Men?

A Fascinating New Theory About the Human Mind, Evolution and Mortality

How Predatory Reformers Are Destroying Education and Profiting at Our Children's Expense

Michael Gecan / Boston Review

Why All Vaginas Are Beautiful and Labiaplasty Is Such a Scam

Tanya Lee Markul / Rebelle Society

Male Menopause? Scientific Study Says It's Possible—If 'Cougar' Women Have More Kids

Anna North / Salon

Investigate Booz Allen Hamilton, not Edward Snowden

Investing in Education Creates More Than Twice as Many Jobs as Military Spending

The Dangers of Corporations Controlling National Secrets

Major Push to End Sexual Assault Epidemic in Military Turned Back in Senate

Is the Rise of Filthy Gonzo Porn Actually Dangerous, Or Are People Overreacting?

David Rosen / AlterNet

How America's Bully Economy leads to a "Bully Society"

Jessie Klein / NYU Press

Did Hollywood Help Make NSA Surveillance Permissible?

John Patterson / The Guardian

Atheists Can Be Just As Obnoxious As Christians

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