Visions

America Doesn't Need Another 'Total Recall' Movie -- And it Says a Lot About Us That There Is One

By Julianne Escobedo Shepherd / AlterNet

The remake of Paul Verhoeven's 1990 sci-fi classic has hit the box office, another example of America's obsession with our own doomy death spiral.

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Student Debt Crisis: It's Time for a Jubilee

By Mark Engler / Dissent Magazine

5 Ways That Technology Is Turning Your Car into a Nagging Parent

By Leanna Kelly / The Faster Times

We May Be in for a Movie-like Apocalyptic Event: Hunger Games for Real

By Michael T. Klare / Tom Dispatch

How Huge Food Corporations Will Make Upcoming Food Price Hikes Even Worse

By Jill Richardson / 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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Visions

The State of America's Children 2012

Marian Wright Edelman / AlterNet

How Legalizing Drugs Would Strengthen Democracy From Afghanistan to Mexico

Inge Fryklund / Foreign Policy in Focus

10 Ways School Reformers Get It Wrong

Colin Greer / AlterNet

Breaking the Glass Hurdle: Women's Firsts in the 2012 Olympics

Danette Rivera / Breaking Muscle

Why Imperial Greed Has a Huge Role to Play in India's Electricity Blackout

Daphne Wysham / Institute for Policy Studies

Our Oceans Are Dying--And Obama Wants to Let Shell Drill for More Oil in Arctic Waters

Subhankar Banerjee / Tom Dispatch

Does Mitt Romney Think He Is a Son of Abraham and That the Land of Zion Will Be his Inheritance?

Valerie Tarico / AlterNet

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

Elizabeth Wehling, George Lakoff / AlterNet

Right-Wing Rhetoric Heats Up, As Talk of Nazis Enters the Conversation

Frederick Clarkson / Religion Dispatches

Why We Can't Depend On Activists To Create Change

Jonathan Matthew Smucker / Devoke The Apocalypse

The Betrayal of the American Dream -- A Once Vibrant Middle Class Is Now on the Brink

Amy Goodman, Don Bartlett, James Steele / Democracy Now

A Zero-Waste Olympics? Nice Try, But No Gold Medal

Jim Motavalli / Txchnologist

What Some of the Greatest Science Fiction Writers Thought 2012 Would Be Like

Sara Robinson / AlterNet

Timothy Noah: Why the Rich Are Getting Richer and the Middle Class Is Disappearing

Sarah Jaffe / AlterNet

Western North America Faces 21st Century 'Mega-drought'

Environment News Service

Why People Cave in to Extremist Ideas That Were Once Unthinkable

Glenn Greenwald / Salon

How Smaller Cities are Taking the Lead in Sustainability Innovation

Sven Eberlein / AlterNet

How Job Insecurity Is Messing Up Your Love Life

Lynn Stuart Parramore / AlterNet

The Top 5 Most Hypocritical Corporate Sponsors

Alyssa Figueroa / AlterNet

Chomsky: The Most Powerful Country in History Is Destroying the Earth and Human Rights as We Know Them

Noam Chomsky / Tom Dispatch

The Sky Is Now Legally Protected, Thanks to a Texas Judge

David Morris / On the Commons

Drought, Blistering Temperatures and Raging Fires: Are We Screwed? 5 Facts You Should Know

Tara Lohan / AlterNet

The Future of Masculinity: Do We Need Real Men - Or Real Human Beings?

Abigail Collazo / Role Reboot

10 Mind-Blowing Discoveries This Week

Liz Langley / AlterNet

The World Needs More Geek Girls -- And Here's Where They're Coming From Now

Ysabel Yates / Txchnologist

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