Visions

We Need Free Thinkers Or Society Will Shrivel Up and Die

By Chris Hedges / Truthdig

Artists, writers, poets, activists, journalists, philosophers, dancers, musicians, actors, and renegades must be tolerated if a culture is to be pulled back from disaster.

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We're Already Topping Dust Bowl Temperatures -- Imagine What'll Happen if We Fail to Stop 10°F Warming

By Joe Romm / Climate Progress

The Death of Critical Thinking in Texas Public Schools

By Danny Weil / TruthOut.org

Church in School? In New York, A Judge Says 'Yes'

By Katherine Stewart / Comment Is Free

Time to Get Crazy: What We Can Learn from Native American Resistance to Colonists' Greed

By Chris Hedges / Truthdig

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

Destroying Communities, Abusing Workers: What's (Still) The Matter With Wal-Mart

Sarah Jaffe / AlterNet

The Day After The Fourth of July

Mike Lux / Daily Kos

The 3 Parent Family -- Conservatives Freak Out Over a Different Model for Healthy, Happy Kids

Tracy Clark-Flory / Salon

Weimar America: Four Major Ways We're Following In Germany's Fascist Footsteps

Robert Cruickshank / AlterNet

How Do We Get More Women Into The Sciences?

Michael Keller / Txchnologist

Climate Change? Blame Canada

Stephen Leahy / Earth Island Journal

Red, White, and Blue No Longer: Religion and A Non-White American Future

Peter Laarman / Religion Dispatches

6 Bogus Economic Arguments Used to Trash Local Food

Jill Richardson / AlterNet

Scientists Say Ongoing Weather Extremes Offer Proof of Climate Change

Suzanne Goldenberg / The Guardian

How Climate Change Is Worsened by Attacks on the Public Sector, Science and Regulation

Amy Goodman, Nermeen Shaikh / Democracy Now!

Glenn Greenwald: How America's Surveillance State Breeds Conformity and Fear

Glenn Greenwald / AlterNet

What GIS Mapping Technology Can Tell You About the Health of Your Neighborhood and Your Risk for Illness

Christine MacDonald / AlterNet

The Revolution Will Be Handheld

Trey Ellis / AlterNet

Google Gets Dystopian: "Google Glasses" and the Surveillance State

Julianne Escobedo Shepherd / AlterNet

Why Are Pundits and Elites Trying to Drive a Wedge Between Generations?

Richard (RJ) Eskow / The Smirking Chimp

Detroit as a Food Desert -- Another Urban Myth

Jay Walljasper / Citiwire

Life Away From the Rat-Race: Why One Group of Workers Decided to Cut Their Own Hours and Pay

John de Graaf / AlterNet

Job Insecurity: It's the Disease of the 21st Century -- And It's Killing Us

Lynn Stuart Parramore / AlterNet

As Farms Bite the Dust, "Megadrought" May Be the New Normal in the Southwest

Ari LeVaux / AlterNet

10 Mind-Blowing Discoveries This Week

Liz Langley / AlterNet

George Lakoff: How Right-Wingers Scam People Into Buying Their Toxic Philosophy

Joshua Holland / AlterNet

Conservative Southern Values Revived: How a Brutal Strain of American Aristocrats Have Come to Rule America

Sara Robinson / AlterNet

The City of The Future: It's Changing -- But Into What?

Michael Keller / Txchnologist

How The Big Banks Run The World -- At Your Expense

Gar Alperovitz / TruthOut.org

Why Progressives Must Make The Moral Case For Universal Health Care

Rich Yeselson / The National Memo

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