Visions

At This Fiscal Crossroads, Let's Talk About the Common Good and Our National Future

By Anat Shenker-Osorio / AlterNet

Focusing solely on taxes is the wrong approach to progressive messaging.

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Our Climate Is Headed Toward 'Extremely Dangerous' or 'Catastrophic:' Here's Our Best Off Plan For Staving Off Total Disaster

By Alex Steffen / AlexSteffen.com

Don't Slave Your Life Away: Why America Should Embrace a 4-Day Work Week

By Bill Ivey / AlterNet

Ron Paul's Farewell Speech in Congress Lays Bare His Hatred for "Pure Democracy," and Love of Oligarchy

By Robert Parry / Consortium News

Sharing Communities Are Spreading Across the World Like Wildfire

By Cat Johnson / Shareable

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

Watch: Bill O'Reilly-Loving Climate-Denier Breaks Down After Watching Documentary 'Chasing Ice,' Vows to Stop Climate Change

Tara Lohan / AlterNet

How Organizing for Change Is Very Different Than Winning Elections

Sarah Jaffe / AlterNet

Cornel West to Economists: 'Wake Up From Your Mechanistic, Cartesian Dream!'

Lynn Stuart Parramore / AlterNet

Slow Democracy: An Antidote to Today's Money-Corrupted, Corporate-Dominated Politics

Susan Clark, Woden Teachout / Chelsea Green Publishing

Eve Ensler Rising: One of America's Most Amazing Activists Is About to Pull Off Her Biggest Event Yet

Laura Flanders / The Nation

The Giant Lie Trotted Out by Fiscal Conservatives Trying to Shred Social Security

Lynn Stuart Parramore / AlterNet

5 Big Takeaways From Hurricane Sandy

Lynn Stuart Parramore / AlterNet

Living With the Contradictions: A Human Potential Visionary Talks About Our Infinite Potential and How We Also Block Progress

Charles Eisenstein / Reality Sandwich

Believers Beyond the Church: How the 'Spiritual Not Religious' Gospel Has Spread

Matthew S. Hedstrom / Religion Dispatches

It’s the Interest, Stupid! Why Bankers Rule the World

Ellen Brown / Web of Debt blog

What if Liberals and Progressives Could Learn to Talk to White Southern Men?

Lynn Stuart Parramore / AlterNet

Marijuana Prohibition Is Hanging on by Its Final Thread -- There's a Bright Future on the Horizon

Doug Fine / AlterNet

Vietnam, Afghanistan: War, Karma, and Peace

Andrew Lam / New America Media

What if a Camera Could Document Your Entire Life?

Owen Hatherley / Comment Is Free

Krugman and Stiglitz: Crazy Austerity Policies Inflict Untold Damage on Economy

Lynn Stuart Parramore / AlterNet

Wake Up! Our World Is Dying and We're All in Denial

Mary Pipher / Psychotherapy Networker

Will the Apocalypse Arrive Online?

Karen J. Greenberg / TomDispatch

Is Anarchism an Idea Whose Time Has Come?

Katherine Acosta / Smirking Chimp

Why We Need More People Like Jennifer Livingston to Tell the World There Is More to Life Than Our Weight

Alyssa Figueroa / AlterNet

Only a Revolution in Our Thinking Can Save Us From a Water Crisis

Tara Lohan / AlterNet

Bill Clinton Was Right That Dems Create More Jobs Than GOPers -- and Here's the Scoreboard for Good Jobs Making Real Things

Colin Gordon, Stephen Herzenberg / AlterNet

Why Do Americans Have to Crush Others to Get Ahead?

Frank Joyce / AlterNet

Do Americans Harbor Childlike Delusions About the Future? James Howard Kunstler Says Watch Out

Paul Smyth, Judy George / AlterNet

A Totally Different Way to Think About Economics — with Visionary Charles Eisenstein

Adam Parsons / Share the World's Resources

TransCanada Attempts to Reroute Keystone XL Pipeline, But Tar Sands Blockade Activists Halt Construction

Candice Bernd / Truthout

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