Visions

10 Mind-Blowing Discoveries This Week

By Liz Langley / AlterNet

Some good news: cows get to drink wine and we're close to eradicating some horrific diseases.

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How Less Work for Everybody Could Solve a Lot of Our Economic Turbulence and Make Life More Pleasant

By Sarah Seltzer / AlterNet

What's Really Wrong With America's 'Best and Brightest'

By June Carbone / AlterNet

The Rise and Fall of the American Childhood

By Colin Greer / AlterNet

Thomas Frank: Why Does Everything Have to be Shiny and "Vibrant"?

By Thomas Frank / The Baffler

Why We Need More People Like Jennifer Livingston to Tell the World There Is More to Life Than Our Weight

Howard Zinn Turns 90: The Great Legacy of the People's Historian

Obama v. Romney: Two Radically Different Visions Of America's Future

Visions

The Great Resurgence of Public Spaces

Jay Walljasper / On the Commons

There Is More Than One Way to Grow a Tomato -- Biodynamic Farming Is Probably the Weirdest

Anneli Rufus / AlterNet

How Do We Break the School-to-Prison Pipeline?

Barbara Grady / New America Media

America Leads the World in Cutting CO2 Emissions. So Why Aren't We Talking About It?

David Roberts / Grist.org

David Ray Griffin: How a Retired Theologian Became a High Priest of the 9/11 Truth Movement

Jan Frel / AlterNet

Why I Decided, 11 Years Ago, to Live Without Money

Daniel Suelo / Earth Island Journal

An Age-Old Secret to Losing Weight

Jill Suttie / Greater Good

Why Do Gen Xers Care So Little About Climate Change?

Brett Israel / Daily Climate

Mooney: Are Conservatives Happier Than Liberals?

Chris Mooney / Salon

The New Totalitarianism: How American Corporations Have Made America Like the Soviet Union

Sara Robinson / AlterNet

John Robbins: Life on the Frontlines of the Food Revolution

Tara Lohan / AlterNet

Multi-Millionaire Admits: The Government Helped Make Me Rich

Brian Miller, Mike Lapham / Berrett-Koehler Publishers

What Happens When You Can't Afford Your Children?

Naomi Cahn, June Carbone / AlterNet

How the Student Loans Debate Got Religion

Christa Hillstrom / YES! Magazine

What's Up With America's Apocalypse Obsession?

Julianne Escobedo Shepherd / AlterNet

More Fallout From Citizens United: Corporations Granted More Power to Propagandize to Americans

Steven Rosenfeld / AlterNet

Hope Is For The Lazy: The Challenge Of Our Dead World

Robert Jensen / AlterNet

Don't Blame Technology For The Shrinking Middle Class

Dean Baker / Center for Economic and Policy Research

Life Is Cheaper -- And Richer -- In Co-Housing

Sven Eberlein / YES! Magazine

Why Don't Americans See Climate Change As A Moral Imperative?

KC Golden / Getting A Grip On Climate Solutions

How Millennials Are Driving the Great Migration of the 21st Century

Nathan Norris / Placeshakers and Newsmakers

What Secrets Is Your Cell Phone Company Telling the Government About You?

David Rosen / AlterNet

What About the Men? Why Our Gender System Sucks for Men, Too

Noah Brand, Ozy Frantz / The Good Men Project

Verizon Wants The "Freedom" To Edit Your Internet

Simon Maloy / Media Matters for America

Noam Chomsky on the Shredding of Our Fundamental Rights and the Common Good

Noam Chomsky / AlterNet

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