Visions

How to Tell if Your Favorite Companies Are Truly Progressive or Secretly Selling Out

By Brittany Shoot / AlterNet

Fran Hawthorne, author of "Ethical Chic: The Inside Story of the Companies We Think We Love," dishes on some big-name companies.

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America's Urban Renaissance Is Being Driven by Thinking Small

By Will Doig / Salon

Melissa Harris-Perry: Fear Is Driving America's Politics, But Hope Is the Only Antidote

By Melissa Harris-Perry / Take Back the American Dream

Lakoff: Why Conservatives Sell Their Wildly Destructive Ideology Better Than Democrats

By George Lakoff, Elisabeth Wehling / AlterNet

As America Grows More Polarized, Conservatives Increasingly Reject Science and Rational Thought

By Amanda Marcotte / AlterNet

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 New Obama Doctrine, A Six-Point Plan for Global War

Nick Turse / TomDispatch.com

Will Colorado Transform its Water Law to Prioritize the Public Good?

Heather Hansen / High Country News

Will 'Green Economics' Help Save the Environment or Just Sell it Off to Corporations?

Jim Shultz / AlterNet

10 New Mind-Blowing Discoveries

Liz Langley / AlterNet

The Truth About Religion in America: The Founders Loathed Superstition and We Were Never a Christian Nation

Kerry Walters / Free Inquiry

The Stop-and-Frisk Crisis: How to Criminalize an Entire Generation of Black and Latino Men

Kevin Powell / AlterNet

Why the Hope of the Arab Spring is Giving Way to Uncertainty and Desperation

Alastair Crooke / Asia Times

Lakoff: Why the Conservative Worldview Exalts Selfishness

George Lakoff, Elisabeth Wehling / AlterNet

What Do Apartheid South Africa and Tucson, Arizona Have in Common?

Bill Bigelow / Rethinking Schools

Chris Hayes: Why America's Meritocracy Is Just a Myth

Joshua Holland / AlterNet

Joseph Stiglitz: What are Your Chances of Economic Success?

Joseph Stiglitz / Project Syndicate

Not for Sale: Why We Can't Save the Planet By Putting a Price on Nature

Tom B.K. Goldtooth / Global Exchange

How the Green Economy Has Been Hijacked by the Greed Economy

Pablo Solón / Global Exchange

Joe Costello: What 21st-Century Democracy Looks Like

Joe Costello, Lynn Stuart Parramore / AlterNet

Don't Despair: Consider Some Radical Approaches That Have Worked in a Country Almost the Size of Ours

Stephen Lerner / AlterNet

America: Where It's Easier to Get a Gun Than Good Mental Health Care

Valerie Tarico / AlterNet

Time to Ditch Our Profit-Hungry Corporate Economy: Here's What the Future Could Look Like Instead

Tara Lohan / AlterNet

‘Turning and Turning in the Widening Gyre’

William J. Mathis / The Washington Post

How a Free Market Run Amok Destroys "Family Values"

Arlie Hochschild / AlterNet

The Right's New Tactic to Pit the Middle Class Against Itself

Dean Bakopoulos / Salon

10 New Discoveries That Will Blow Your Mind

Liz Langley / AlterNet

What Does Our Obsession With Zombie Stories Tell Us About Our Politics?

Kristin Rawls / AlterNet

6 Government Surveillance Programs Designed to Watch What You Do Online

David Rosen / AlterNet

Child Evangelism Fellowship: The Christian Group Recruiting Kids in Public Schools

Valerie Tarico / AlterNet

Why Do Working-Class People Vote Conservative?

Jonathan Haidt / The Guardian

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