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Meet the Former Right-Wing Blogger Who Realized Conservatives Are Crazy

By Joshua Holland / AlterNet

Charles Johnson was among the nation's leading "anti-jihad" bloggers until he realized that his compatriots were totally nuts.

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Who's Buying Your Election? New FCC Ruling Requires Broadcasters to Post Data On Ad Purchases

By Juan Gonzalez, Amy Goodman / Democracy Now!

When Mainstream Media Coverage of Occupy Fell Off, So Did Their Coverage of Inequality and Corporate Greed

By John Knefel / Extra!

What is Google Doing With the Contents of Your Hard Drive?

By David Sirota / AlterNet

4 May Day Stories the Corporate Media Missed While Fixating On Obama's College Girlfriend

By Sarah Seltzer / AlterNet

How Close Is Rupert Murdoch to Owning the L.A. Times and the Chicago Tribune?

The Right-Wing Media Bubble Cocoons Republicans from Adapting to the New Political Landscape

Dear Angry White Conservatives Mourning Romney's Loss: Chill Out

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Why Is the Conservative Brain More Fearful? The Alternate Reality Right-Wingers Inhabit Is Terrifying

Joshua Holland / AlterNet

Why the GOP's Really Afraid of a "Cool" Obama

Leslie Savan / The Nation

TV's Overwhelming Whiteness Changes How We Think

Jeremy Adam Smith / Salon

Friends, Followers and the Future: How Social Media Is Changing Our News and Our Lives

Sarah Jaffe / AlterNet

Facebook and Google Turned Into Government Spies? The Dangerous New Law Before Congress (CISPA)

Steven Rosenfeld / AlterNet

What Law Enforcement Missed: New Book Explains Why We Need to Revisit the Oklahoma City Bombing

Laura Miller / Salon

The Racism-Conservatism Link: 'National Review' Firestorm Over Racism Calls Up William F. Buckley's Troubling Legacy

William Hogeland / AlterNet

10 of Thomas Friedman's Dumbest "Big Ideas"

Belén Fernández / AlterNet

Public Displays of Connection: How Social Media Can Help Repair the News' Trust Problem

Rory O'Connor / City Lights

Are Data-Mining and Advertising Stripping Language of its Meaning?

Lewis Lapham / TomDispatch.com

No, Bill O'Reilly, Glee Will Not Make Your Kid Transgender. And So What if It Does?

Mary Elizabeth Williams / Salon

Earth Day: 9 Films That Will Change the Way You Think About the World

Scott Thill / AlterNet

Moyers: Media Giants Fight Proposal That Could Shed Light on Who's Buying Our Elections

Bill Moyers, Michael Winship / BillMoyers.com

Women, Sex and S&M: Mainstream Media Totally Wrong About Female Desire -- Again

Shira Tarrant / AlterNet

Will Information on Political Advertising Buyers Make it To the Public? Not if Industry Lobbyists Can Help It

Justin Elliott / ProPublica

Republican Candidates Claim Fox News is Biased--Against Them

Eric Boehlert / Media Matters for America

5 Guidelines that Can Prevent Sexist Reporting on Women in Politics

Sarah Seltzer / AlterNet

The National Review: Always Was and Still Is Wildly Racist

Joan Walsh / Salon

Rush Limbaugh is Wrong About Rising College Costs--But So Are Most Politicians

Laura Clawson / Daily Kos

Cheerleading for Monsanto? The Shocking Lack of Difference Between Oxford University Press and Fox News

Frances Moore Lappe / AlterNet

The Science of Fox News: Why Its Viewers are the Most Misinformed

Chris Mooney / AlterNet

New Laws Banning Sex Offenders from Social Networks and Online Gaming May Go Too Far

Tracy Clark-Flory / Salon

Right-Wing Media Are the Ones Playing the "Race Card" Over Trayvon Martin's Death

Solange Uwimana / Media Matters for America

Google vs. Facebook: The New Media Showdown

Rory O'Connor / Media Is Plural

5 Big Media Stereotypes About the South (And the Real Story Behind Them)

Kristin Rawls / AlterNet

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