Why the White South Is Still in Denial About Slavery
By Peter Birkenhead / Salon
On a trip through the South, Civil War culture is presented as "authentic." They just leave out the slavery part.
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Why Are American Citizens Getting Locked Up and Even Deported By Immigration Authorities?
By Rania Khalek
AlterNet
Not Sexy: Victoria’s Secret 'Fair-Trade' Cotton Harvested by Child Slaves
By Julianne Escobedo Shepherd
AlterNet
Study: Why Teen Pot Smoking Could be a Good Thing (And What We Can Learn From Teens Who Choose Weed Over Beer)
By Kristen Gwynne / AlterNet
How Pay-Pal Squeezes Merchants with Unfair and Likely Illegal Business Practices
By Simon Waxman / AlterNet
Why Is the FDA Saying It's OK to Eat Seafood 10,000 Times Over the Safe Limit for Dangerous Carcinogens?
By Brad Jacobson / AlterNet
How Finance Vultures Feed off the Poor As They Fight to Climb Out of Poverty
By Kai Wright / The Nation
Christian Fundamentalists and Private Military Contractors? The Strange Bedfellows of the Sex Slavery Anti-Trafficking Movement
By Emi Koyama / Bitch Magazine
The Mysterious Death of Dunkard Creek: Is Fracking to Blame for One of the Worst Ecological Disasters in the East?
By Adam Federman / Earth Island Journal
Explosive New Report: CEO Pay Skyrocketed 27% Last Year, Top 10 Earners Pocket More Than $770 Million Between Then
By Dominic Rushe / The Guardian
$806 Billion Spent for Hundreds of Thousands to Be Killed and Wounded: The Staggering, True Costs of the Iraq War
By Matthew Duss, Peter Juul / Center for American Progress
Air Too Dangerous to Breathe: How Gas Drilling Can Turn Rural Communities Into Industrial Wastelands [With Photos]
By Nina Berman / AlterNet
'Global Battlefield' Provision Allowing Indefinite Detention of Citizens Accused of Terror Could Pass This Week
By Rania Khalek / AlterNet
Startling New Evidence Shows US Troops Helped Despotic Regimes Battle the Arab Spring Uprisings
By Nick Turse / TomDispatch.com
The Health of Children and Consumers Is Threatened by Conservative Push for Corporate Speech Rights
By Steven Rosenfeld / AlterNet
Secretive Millionaires Funding Online Primary For 'Independent' White House Run
By Justin Elliott / Salon
Child Labor, Torture and Rape: Attempts to Regulate the Brutal Diamond Industry Failing
By Michelle Chen / In These Times
Feds Link Water Contamination to Fracking for the First Time
By Abrahm Lustgarten, Nicholas Kusnetz / ProPublica
How Goldman Sachs and Other Companies Exploit Port Truck Drivers — Occupy Protesters Plan to Shut Down West Coast Ports in Protest
By Tara Lohan / AlterNet
The Rise of the New Confederacy: How America-Hating Right-Wingers Took Over the GOP
By Theo Anderson / In These Times
The Real History of 'Corporate Personhood': Meet the Man to Blame for Corporations Having More Rights Than You
By Jeffrey Clements / Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Bullies, Liars and Impostors: How Facebook and Go Daddy Shield Scott Walker's Online Guerillas
By Adele M. Stan, Steven Rosenfeld / AlterNet
How White Supremacists Are Trying to Make an American Town a Model for Right-Wing Extremism
By David Holthouse / Media Matters for America
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