Investigations

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

Teens are smoking more weed, while cutting down on alcohol and cigarrettes cigarrettes, because they do not perceive marijuana to be as harmful as did generations past.

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

By Simon Waxman / AlterNet

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

By 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?

By Brad Jacobson / AlterNet

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

By Kai Wright / The Nation

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Investigations

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

Rania Khalek / AlterNet

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

Emi Koyama / Bitch Magazine

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

When the Cop Is the Criminal: Preying on Drug Addicts

Kristen Gwynne / AlterNet

Child Labor, Torture and Rape: Attempts to Regulate the Brutal Diamond Industry Failing

Michelle Chen / In These Times

Feds Link Water Contamination to Fracking for the First Time

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

Tara Lohan / AlterNet

The Rise of the New Confederacy: How America-Hating Right-Wingers Took Over the GOP

Theo Anderson / In These Times

The Real History of 'Corporate Personhood': Meet the Man to Blame for Corporations Having More Rights Than You

Jeffrey Clements / Berrett-Koehler Publishers

Bullies, Liars and Impostors: How Facebook and Go Daddy Shield Scott Walker's Online Guerillas

Steven Rosenfeld, Adele M. Stan / AlterNet

Who Are the Dudes and the Vipers, and Why Are They Bombing the Afghans?

Nick Turse / AlterNet

How White Supremacists Are Trying to Make an American Town a Model for Right-Wing Extremism

David Holthouse / Media Matters for America

Pay Attention: How Big Pharma Contrived the Great American Adderall Drought

Moe Tkacik / The Fix

NYPD Snoop Declares Zuccotti Park A “Soft Target” for Terrorists: Really?

Nick Turse / AlterNet

The 5 Most Toxic Energy Companies and How They Control Our Politics

Tara Lohan / AlterNet

Cain's Milwaukee Meltdown: Will Koch Still Love His 'Brother From Another Mother'?

Adele M. Stan / AlterNet

The US Has Been Bombing Iraq Since 1991 Without Stopping--Until Now

Nick Turse / AlterNet

'Go. Leave. You Can't Be Here': What Happened When I Tried to Investigate the Connection Between the NYPD and Brookfield Properties, Zuccotti's Owners

Nick Turse / AlterNet

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