Visions

Five Lessons in Human Goodness From "The Hunger Games"

By Jeremy Adam Smith / YES! Magazine

The dystopian tale is really about compassion, empathy, and cooperation -- and there are scientific reasons for that

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It is No Mystery: The Real Reason Conservatives Keep Winning

By Joe Brewer / Cognitive Policy Works

How the Drug War Exacerbates the Global HIV Pandemic

By Phillip Smith / Drug War Chronicle

The Competition Fallacy

By Jessie B. Ramey / Yinzercation

What’s Needed for Change at This Political Moment? 5 Well-Known Progressives, 5 Strong Opinions

By Betsy Leondar-Wright / Classism Exposed

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

What Science Can -- And Can't -- Tell Us About Life, Death and Happiness

Laura Miller / Salon

Do People Get Less Religious When Societies Grow More Egalitarian?

Amanda Marcotte / AlterNet

Exclusive Interview: Joseph Stiglitz Sees Terrifying Future for America If We Don't Reverse Inequality

Lynn Stuart Parramore / AlterNet

5 Reasons America Is Not -- And Has Never Been -- a Christian Nation

Rob Boston / Free Inquiry

What Happened to All Those Green Weatherization Jobs?

Mike Prokosch / Labor Notes

Democracy in the Workplace? Spain's Mondragon Corporation Shows Us an Alternative to Capitalism

Richard D. Wolff / Comment Is Free

Why Is the Government Collecting Your Biometric Data?

Tana Ganeva / AlterNet

Why Is There So Much God in America's Politics?

Santiago Wills / Salon

What Happens If We Wake Up With a Mormon in the White House? What Joseph Smith's Run for President Suggests About Mitt Romney

Mark Ames / Punch!

An Ambitious Plan to Get People to Rethink Themselves and One Another

Laura Flanders / The Nation

System Failure: We Are Approaching the End of Society As We Know It -- And That May Be a Good Thing

Terrence McNally / AlterNet

What Is Wrong With Our Education System? Almost Half the Population Doesn't Accept Evolution

Katha Pollitt / The Nation

10 Mind-Blowing Discoveries This Week

Liz Langley / AlterNet

It's No Longer Enough to Regulate Corporate Greed: The Global Water Crisis Demands a Paradigm Shift

Maude Barlow, Meera Karunananthan / AlterNet

10 Steps We Can Take Right Now to Build the New Economy

James Gustave Speth / YES! Magazine

Abortions Have Made Life Better for Millions Of Men: It's About Time to Speak Up in Support

Sara Robinson / AlterNet

The Ungodly Constitution: How the Founders Ensured America Would Not Be a Christian Nation

Susan Jacoby / Free Inquiry

Fate of 2012 Election Falling Into the Hands of the Tuned-Out Youth Vote

Steven Rosenfeld / AlterNet

Big Food's Latest Ploy to Get Richer While Making Americans Fatter

David Sirota / Salon

We Know What We're Against. Now: What Are We <i>For?</i>

David Roberts / Grist.org

Alabama Defeats Communism with Anti-Sustainability Law

Leah Nelson / SPLC's Hate Watch

A Year After The Non-Apocalypse: Where Are Harold Camping's Believers Now?

Tom Bartlett / Religion Dispatches

'Shock Doctrine' in Action: Vital Freshwater Resources Under Attack by Privatization Capitalists

Scott Thill / AlterNet

What Does It Mean To Be Literate In The 21st Century?

Sheila Moorcroft / Shaping Tomorrow

America Could Have Dropped Big Oil Decades Ago -- What Happened?

Aaron Skirboll / AlterNet

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