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5 Things That Put America to Shame

By Paul Buchheit / Buzzflash at TruthOut

The golden door on the Statue of Liberty seems to have an invisible hand holding it shut.

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5 Ways Conservatives are Destroying the Institution of Marriage

By Naomi Cahn, June Carbone / AlterNet

The Terrifying Truth About America's Obesity Epidemic

By Kerry Trueman / AlterNet

How the Ayn Rand-Loving Right Is Like a Bunch of Teen Boys Gone Crazy

By Sara Robinson / AlterNet

'Last Call at the Oasis': Why Time Is Running Out to Save Our Drinking Water

By Tara Lohan / AlterNet

'A Kaleidoscopic Sense of Possibility': Interview with David Graeber on Democracy in America

Chomsky: Corporations and the Richest Americans Viscerally Oppose Common Good

The Real Causes of Divorce -- America Has to Stop Blaming It on Women

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10 Amazing Discoveries That Should Be Worth Millions

Liz Langley / AlterNet

Frankenfoods: Why Is the Gates Foundation Helping Monsanto Push Genetically Modified Food?

Paige Aarhus / Indypendent

Micro-Power Hydro: An Energy Alternative Whose Time Is Coming

Maggie Koerth-Baker / Txchnologist

Media Making as Participatory Democracy: Port Huron to OWS

Josh Stearns / AlterNet

A Campus Redesign, Courtesy of the Students Who Learn There

Rachel Cromidas / Gotham Schools

Conservative Think Tanks Launch Campaign to Turn Americans Against Wind Energy

Suzanne Goldenberg / The Guardian

Can Beer Save America?

David Sirota / Salon

Conservatives Are Hitting Rock Bottom

D. R. Tucker, Michael Stafford / TruthOut.org

America The Possible, Part II

James Gustave Speth / OrionOnline.org

Why We Fall In Love With Bicycles: 7 Reasons to Get On And Ride

Christine M. Grant / Sightline Institute

Future Tech: How 3D Printing Will Change the World

Dennis Draeger / AlterNet

Productivity Doubled -- And The Middle Class Got Screwed. What Went Wrong?

Sam Pizzigati / Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality

Young vs Old: Will Republicans Turn Class Warfare into Generational Warfare in the 2012 Election?

Joan Walsh / Salon

How Conservative Religion Makes the Right Politically Stronger

Sara Robinson / AlterNet

Chomsky: Do We Have the Makings of a Real Revolution?

Noam Chomsky / TomDispatch.com

5 Things the Science Doesn't Say About the Conservative Brain

Chris Mooney / AlterNet

We Have Everything We Need Already: Community Control of Education

Beverly Bell / Other Worlds

How I Stopped Being a Panicky Perfectionist and Embraced the Freedom of an Eco-mind

Frances Moore Lappe / AlterNet

European People Have Rejected Austerity Madness: Will the U.S. Get the Message?

Marshall Auerback / AlterNet

Surviving America's Decline

Ernest Callenbach / TomDispatch.com

10 Amazing Discoveries You Missed This Week

Liz Langley / AlterNet

Why Conservatives Believe in Anti-Gay Pseudo-Science

Chris Mooney / AlterNet

Drinking Water Under Threat: New Study Predicts Frack Fluids Can Migrate to Aquifers Within Years

Abrahm Lustgarten / ProPublica

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

Joshua Holland / AlterNet

Ayn Rand or Jesus Christ? Conservatives Can't Have It Both Ways

Mike Lux / Huffington Post

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