Visions

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

By Ysabel Yates / Txchnologist

Hacker spaces and peer instruction are launching the next generation of female programmers.

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Beyond Throwaway Cities: How To Build An Export-Proof Local Economy

By Gar Alperovitz, Steve Dubb, Thad Williamson / Solutions Journal

How Will the 99% Deal with the Psychopaths in the 1%?

By Joe Brewer / Cognitive Policy Works

Why Our Phones and Internet Are Being Threatened by a Big Telecom Privatization Scheme

By David Rosen, Bruce Kushnick / AlteNet

A Piece of American History That the Corporate Capitalists Want Us to Forget: Battle of Blair Mountain

By Chris Hedges / Truthdig

'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

“Global Warming’s Terrifying New Math” — Bill McKibben’s Call to Action on Carbon Emissions Makes Waves

Tom Athanasiou / Eco Equity

How Can the Labor Movement Move Beyond the Democratic Party?

Mike Parker / Labor Notes

5 Reasons the Super-Rich Need Government More Than the Rest of Us

Paul Buchheit / AlterNet

We Can't End AIDS Until We End the Drug War

Ethan Nadelmann, Mathilde Krim / Huffington Post

Get Used to the American West in Flames: What Living With the 'New Normal' Will Mean

William deBuys / TomDispatch.com

Black Americans Have Suffered an Historic Wipeout of Their Wealth, With Few Signs It's Coming Back

Jamelle Bouie / The Nation

Once America’s Leading Hate Group, the Neo-Nazi National Alliance Now Considered 'a Joke'

Mark Potok / Southern Poverty Law Center

The Story of Change

Annie Leonard / The Story of Stuff

Why Only A Constitution Amendment Can Rescue American Democracy

Jamin Raskin / People For the American Way Foundation

The New Misogyny: What It Means for Teachers and Classrooms

The Editors of Rethinking Schools / Rethinking Schools

It's Scary -- Ayn Rand's Nutty Ideas Are Being Taken Seriously, Even in Canada

Crawford Kilian / The Tyee

Are Progressives Harming the Cause by Attacking Organized Religion and People of Faith?

James Rohrer / AlterNet

10 Mind-Blowing Discoveries This Week

Liz Langley / AlterNet

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

Sarah Seltzer / AlterNet

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

June Carbone / AlterNet

The Rise and Fall of the American Childhood

Colin Greer / AlterNet

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

Thomas Frank / The Baffler

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

Why Do Gen Xers Care So Little About Climate Change?

Brett Israel / Daily Climate

An Age-Old Secret to Losing Weight

Jill Suttie / Greater Good

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