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Guilty of Sedition? How the Right Is Undermining Our Government's Authority...
It's time to openly confront the fact that conservatives have spent the past 40 years systematically delegitimizing the very idea of US government.Sedition:Crime of creating a revolt, disturbance, or...
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Is Mean-Spirited, Ignorant, Tearful Glenn Beck Going to Have an Impact on...
In his new book, journalist Alexander Zaitchik examines the character and career of the shock jock at the center of the far-right's churning cultural storm.America has this long tradition of twisted,...
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Exploring the Crazy Conspiracy Theories Bubbling Up Around the BP Disaster
You've heard the latest one, right? The one about how President Obama deliberately blew up the Deepwater Horizon to pass an energy bill?You've heard the latest one, right? President Obama -- or maybe...
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What the Hell Was That Ground Zero 'Mosque' Uproar Really About, Anyway? The...
Getting to the bottom of why the conservatives are taking out after the Muslim community now -- nine full years after 9/11.Now that the so-called Ground Zero Mosque controversy is slipping off the...
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Fascist America: Is This Election the Next Turn?
It's not fascism yet; but if the Tea Party manages to get its hands on the levers of power, it will be.In August 2009, I wrote a piece titled Fascist America: Are We There Yet? that sparked much...
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New Rules for Radicals: 10 Ways To Spark Change in a Post-Occupy World
The world is changing quickly, and we need to help steer it according to our shared values -- our vision of what might be.Editor's note: AlterNet is excited to announce the launch of a full-fledged,...
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Why Going 'Back To Normal' Is No Longer An Option for the American Economy --...
Stop waiting around, because "normal" as we know it isn't coming back.Former IMF chief economist Joseph Stiglitz has a message for everybody who's sitting around waiting for the economy to "get back to...
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Does College Make Us Less Equipped to Change the World?
Some of the things we learned back at the Big U don't work at all on the political street.In this great meritocracy of ours, those of us who’ve made it through college are encouraged to feel like we’re...
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Why Patriarchal Men Are Utterly Petrified of Birth Control and Why We'll...
Conservative bishops and Congressmen are fighting a rear-guard action against one of the most revolutionary changes in human history.What's happening in Congress this week, as Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA)...
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Making Sustainability Legal: 9 Zombie Laws That Keep Cities From Going Green
These outdated laws forbid sustainable choices -- and here's what you can do to change them.You’ve done your part, you good greenie, you. You’ve changed out the light bulbs, bought energy-saving...
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Ayn Rand Worshippers Should Face Facts: Blue States Are Providers, Red States...
There's only one way to demonstrate who America's producers and parasites really are. It's time to go Galt.Last week, the New York Times published a widely discussed article updating an argument that...
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Can We Build a Sustainable Society Ourselves?
Sightline Institute’s Alan Durning discusses hope, fear and how we can keep making progress when change seems impossible.Alan Durning, the guiding force behind Seattle’s influential Sightline...
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Why We Have to Go Back to a 40-Hour Work Week to Keep Our Sanity
One hundred fifty years of research proves that shorter work hours actually raise productivity and profits -- and overtime destroys them. So why do we still do this?If you’re lucky enough to have a job...
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Kiss the McMansion Goodbye: Is the American Home Shrinking?
A long-term trend toward smaller houses is well underway -- with huge implications for the future of our cities.Very Tiny Houses may be the new American homeowner porn.I know I'm far from the only one...
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Conservative Bullying Has Made America Into a Broken, Dysfunctional Family:...
An abusive, out-of-control, rageaholic GOP broke our country by shattering our trust in democracy and in ourselves.A marriage counselor friend once told me that he almost always knows by the end of the...
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The Right-Wing Plot to Control Your Health Care
The war on women is also an effort to permanently give politicians, religious authorities, accountants, and your boss a seat in your doctor's exam room.Much has been written the past few months about...
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Atheism Rising, But God Is Not Dead Yet: 10 Ways Religion Is Changing Around...
Religion is alive and well in the 21st century -- but it also looks very different now.For most of the 20th century, smart people assumed -- with smug certainty and probably more wishful thinking than...
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10 Big Mistakes People Make in Thinking About the Future
In a time of huge change and uncertainty, we need to think about the future as clearly as possible. Here's where we most often get it wrong.Being a working futurist means that I think a lot about how...
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Deciphering Right-Wing Code: What Conservatives Are Really Saying When They...
Did Rick Santorum just declare the next right-wing crusade?Progressive commentators have been piling on Rick Santorum for a weirdly incoherent statement he made about the state of American history...
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6 People You Need to Start a Revolution
Successful change movements run on diversity. Here are the essential skill sets no revolution can win without.With the 99% Spring up and rolling and set to bring 100,000 new activists to the party this...
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$5,000 For a Pair of Sandals: The Rich Are Different, Right Down to Their Shoes
In a world where kids are starving and ice caps are melting, how can people spend $5K on shoes?The fashionista world has been having a collective snit this spring over a huge and sudden increase in the...
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The Self-Made Myth: Debunking Conservatives' Favorite -- And Most Dangerous...
A new book makes a strong case that nobody ever makes it on their own in America.The self-made myth is one of the most cherished foundation stones of the conservative theology. Nurtured by Horatio...
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Fascist America: Have We Finally Turned The Corner?
The author offers one of her periodic assessments of America's potential to go fascist. And the news is better than it's been in years.America has never been without fascist wannabes. Research by...
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How Conservative Religion Makes the Right Politically Stronger
We may not share their theology, but right-wing religion teaches powerful lessons on courage, confidence and foresight that we could stand to learn.Progressives often marvel at how focused, coordinated...
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How the Ayn Rand-Loving Right Is Like a Bunch of Teen Boys Gone Crazy
Flowers are nice, but this Mother's Day, what I really want is for these immature boys to grow up already.If, as George Lakoff says, we view politics through the metaphor of family, then Mother's Day...
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Capitalism Has Failed: 5 Bold Ways to Build a New World
Some new ideas and big questions are defining our economic future.As our political system sputters, a wave of innovative thinking and bold experimentation is quietly sweeping away outmoded economic...
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How the Conservative Worldview Quashes Critical Thinking -- and What That...
The education of our children is a core cultural and political choice that reflects the deepest differences between liberals and conservatives.The Conservative War On Education continues apace, with...
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How Homeownership Has Changed in America And Why You Shouldn't Give Up on Buying
In one short decade, home ownership has gone from being the Holy Grail of middle-class financial achievement to a very risky financial ball-and-chain.In one short decade, home ownership has gone from...
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Abortions Have Made Life Better for Millions Of Men: It's About Time to Speak...
It's time for pro-choice men to step up -- because our choices change their lives, too. Pro-choice activists have been saying for at least three decades that the landscape of the abortion debate won't...
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Conservative Southern Values Revived: How a Brutal Strain of American...
America didn't used to be run like an old Southern slave plantation, but we're headed that way now. How did that happen? It's been said that the rich are different than you and me. What most Americans...
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Six Reasons We Can't Change The Future Without Progressive Religion
Often, religion offers much that progressives need to build movements for change.One of the great historical strengths of the progressive movement has been its resolute commitment to the separation of...
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The New Totalitarianism: How American Corporations Have Made America Like the...
Free-market capitalism was supposed to save us from the tyranny of faceless apparatchiks. But that's not what happened. The great power struggle of the 20th century was the competition between...
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What Some of the Greatest Science Fiction Writers Thought 2012 Would Be Like
25 years ago, a group of writers and scientists offered their visions of today's world. What did they get right? And what did they miss?Back in 1987, L. Ron Hubbard created a time capsule of sorts. He...
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Why Patriarchal Men Are Utterly Petrified of Birth Control and Why We'll...
Conservatives are fighting a rear-guard action against one of the most revolutionary changes in human history.When people look back on the 20th century from the vantage point of 500 years on, they will...
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The Self-Made Myth: Debunking Conservatives' Favorite—And Most Dangerous—Fiction
Nobody ever makes it on their own in America.The self-made myth is one of the most cherished foundation stones of the conservative theology. Nurtured by Horatio Alger and generations of beloved boys'...
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We Need to Hear From More Pro-Choice Men in the Abortion Conversation
What's at stake isn't just women's liberty—it's yours, too. Pro-choice activists have been saying for at least three decades that the landscape of the abortion debate won't permanently change until...
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Ayn Rand Worshippers Must Face Facts: Blue States Are Providers, Red States...
The time has come for blue America to go Galt.The New York Times published a widely discussed article updating an argument that progressive bloggers noticed a very long time ago. It's now...
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Copenhagen: Getting Past the Urgency Trap
Copenhagen is the next step forward, and we’ll accept it with greater equanimity if we understand that conventional thinkers have to work their toward deeper transformationThe article below appeared...
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New Poll Results Are Proof That Republicans Don't Think
A poll commissioned by DailyKos shows just how far to the right the GOP has been dragged by its right wing...and how far out of step they are with the rest of America.A village cannot revise village...
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An Expat's Guide to the Vancouver Olympics
Vancouver does things its own strange and subtle ways that the media hordes will only begin to be noticing by the time these Games are over.Hello, world. We've been expecting you. It's good to see you...
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