Investigations

Fraud and Folly: The Untold Story of General Electric's Subprime Debacle

By Michael Hudson / The Center for Public Integrity

The industrial giant jumped into the subprime business in 2004, lending blue-chip respectability to the market for risky home loans.

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7 Reasons America's Mental Health Industry Is a Threat to Our Sanity

By Bruce E. Levine / AlterNet

“Free Pancho!”: the Occupy Movement Steps Up for Immigrant Rights

By Cloee Cooper / Imagine 2050

Haiti: Where the Earthquake Money Did and Did Not Go

By Bill Quigley, Anna Ramanauskas / AlterNet

Why You May Be Drinking Soda That Contains a Dangerous Flame Retardant Banned in Europe and Japan

By Brett Israel / Environmental Health News

Petraeus' Love Affair Becomes Tangled, Shakespearean Web

Sick: Government Sprayed Radioactive Chemicals on Poor People in Science Experiment, Study Claims

Very Bad Things Happen When We Depend on the Same People Who Caused the Foreclosure Crisis to Track Its Destruction

Investigations

Kids, Minivans, and Drug-Dealing: How the Recession Pulls Ordinary Families Into the Weed Game

Tony D'Souza / Mother Jones

Are Crackpot Liars Being Used to Tie Iran to 9/11?

Gareth Porter / TruthOut.org

We've Lost Nearly All of Our Wild Foods -- What Happened? And What Are We Missing?

Jill Richardson / AlterNet

L.A.'s Dirty Coal Addiction Is Killing Arizona

Joshua Frank / AlterNet

Why the White South Is Still in Denial About Slavery

Peter Birkenhead / Salon

Why Are American Citizens Getting Locked Up and Even Deported By Immigration Authorities?

Rania Khalek / AlterNet

Are You Being Tracked? 8 Ways Your Privacy Is Being Eroded Online and Off

David Rosen / AlterNet

The 10 Most Dangerous Meds Driving America's Pill Crisis

Kevin Gray / The Fix

Not Sexy: Victoria’s Secret 'Fair-Trade' Cotton Harvested by Child Slaves

Julianne Escobedo Shepherd / AlterNet

GOP Voter Suppression Plan: Seven Tactics To Block Your Vote in 2012

Steven Rosenfeld / AlterNet

Study: Why Teen Pot Smoking Could be a Good Thing (And What We Can Learn From Teens Who Choose Weed Over Beer)

Kristen Gwynne / AlterNet

How Pay-Pal Squeezes Merchants with Unfair and Likely Illegal Business Practices

Simon Waxman / AlterNet

The Little-Known, Inside Story About How Newt Became the Man He Is

Max Blumenthal / Nation Books

Why Is the FDA Saying It's OK to Eat Seafood 10,000 Times Over the Safe Limit for Dangerous Carcinogens?

Brad Jacobson / AlterNet

How Finance Vultures Feed off the Poor As They Fight to Climb Out of Poverty

Kai Wright / The Nation

Christian Fundamentalists and Private Military Contractors? The Strange Bedfellows of the Sex Slavery Anti-Trafficking Movement

Emi Koyama / Bitch Magazine

8 Stories Buried By the Corporate Media That You Need to Know About

Rania Khalek / AlterNet

The Mysterious Death of Dunkard Creek: Is Fracking to Blame for One of the Worst Ecological Disasters in the East?

Adam Federman / Earth Island Journal

Explosive New Report: CEO Pay Skyrocketed 27% Last Year, Top 10 Earners Pocket More Than $770 Million Between Then

Dominic Rushe / The Guardian

$806 Billion Spent for Hundreds of Thousands to Be Killed and Wounded: The Staggering, True Costs of the Iraq War

Matthew Duss, Peter Juul / Center for American Progress

'Global Battlefield' Provision Allowing Indefinite Detention of Citizens Accused of Terror Could Pass This Week

Rania Khalek / AlterNet

Air Too Dangerous to Breathe: How Gas Drilling Can Turn Rural Communities Into Industrial Wastelands [With Photos]

Nina Berman / AlterNet

Startling New Evidence Shows US Troops Helped Despotic Regimes Battle the Arab Spring Uprisings

Nick Turse / TomDispatch.com

The Health of Children and Consumers Is Threatened by Conservative Push for Corporate Speech Rights

Steven Rosenfeld / AlterNet

Secretive Millionaires Funding Online Primary For 'Independent' White House Run

Justin Elliott / Salon

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