Visions

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

By Mark Ames / Punch!

The truth about the man with 33 wives -- and what that tells us about Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney.

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

By Laura Flanders / The Nation

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

By Katha Pollitt / The Nation

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

By Terrence McNally / AlterNet

10 Mind-Blowing Discoveries This Week

By Liz Langley / 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

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

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

Brittany Shoot / AlterNet

America's Urban Renaissance Is Being Driven by Thinking Small

Will Doig / Salon

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

Melissa Harris-Perry / Take Back the American Dream

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

George Lakoff, Elisabeth Wehling / AlterNet

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

Amanda Marcotte / AlterNet

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

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