Visions

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

By Bill Bigelow / Rethinking Schools

25 years after leaving South Africa, this educator sees significant parallels between schooling under apartheid and Tucson's current ban on ethnic studies.

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

By Joshua Holland / AlterNet

Joseph Stiglitz: What are Your Chances of Economic Success?

By Joseph Stiglitz / Project Syndicate

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

By Tom B.K. Goldtooth / Global Exchange

How the Green Economy Has Been Hijacked by the Greed Economy

By Pablo Solón / Global Exchange

'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

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

Ayn Rand Thinks He's a Parasite, But My Brother Kevin Contributes Greatly to Our Society

Mike Lux / AlterNet

The Surprising Effect of Agriculture on Rising Sea Levels

Shiney Varghese / Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy

Why Don't We Have Flying Cars? How Capitalism Steered Innovation Toward Social Control Rather Than Technological Wonders

David Graeber / The Baffler

Why The US Military Is Leading The Charge For Green Energy

Natalie Pompilio / YES! Magazine

How The Press Distorts The News About US Energy Security

Jocelyn Fong / Media Matters for America

Casinos Are Not the Future: Rebuilding Atlantic City Will Take More Than Gambling

Will Doig / Salon

Beyond Corporate Capitalism: Not So Wild a Dream

Gar Alperovitz, Thomas Hanna / The Nation

The Simple, Inexpensive Breakthrough That Is Transforming American Cities

Jay Walljasper / AlterNet

What Fires Young People's Activism? A New Study Asks Them

Rinku Sen / ColorLines

5 Issues that Divide Conservatives and the American Military

Heather Hurlburt / AlterNet

Is Job Security Real Security? Gainful Unemployment May Be A Workable Alternative

Shannon Hayes / YES! Magazine

Can't Afford A Summer Vacation? Share Your Way To An Eco-Friendly Getaway

Beth Buczynski / Shareable

Pew Poll Finds Clean Energy Is A Political Wedge Issue for Republicans

Stephen Lacey / Climate Progress

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