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New York Woman Being Charged With "Self-Abortion"
By Robin Marty | RH Reality Check
iPhone's Siri is a Total Misogynist
By Jill Filipovic | Feministe
Top GOP Strategist 'frightened to death' By OWS, Offers Republicans Advice On Messaging
By Laura Clawson | Daily Kos
One Percenter: Tax The Rich Because People Like Me Donât Create Jobs, The Middle Class Does
By Zaid Jilani | Think Progress
AlterNet's Sarah Jaffe on Thom Hartmann: Are Student Loan Strikes Coming?
By Lauren Kelley | AlterNet
Occupy Updates: Protesters Barricaded, Reporters Turned Away Outside of "1%" Obama Fundraiser
By Lauren Kelley | AlterNet
Lessons From Our War Dead in a No-Learning-Curve World
By Tom Engelhardt | Tomdispatch.com
World AIDS Day: Sobering Statistics About a 30-Year Epidemic
By Lauren Kelley | AlterNet
Should Organized Religion Have More Rights Than Women?
By Georgia Platts | Ms. Magazine Blog
19-Year-Old Who Was Raised by Two Women Gives Moving Gay Rights Speech, Becomes Viral Video Star
By Lauren Kelley | AlterNet
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Andrew Sullivan and the Bell Curve Follies: âThe Mental Age of the Negro Soldier is 10 Years Old..â
Chauncey DeVega
Breaking the Cycle of Unwanted Pregnancy and Unsafe Abortion: A Call to Action
RH Reality Check
Military Leaders Standing Up for Servicewomen in Support of Shaheen Amendment
RH Reality Check
In the lead: Rupert Murdoch and the Koch Brothers
Robert Greenwald
Stream of Conscience: Band Rocks the Charts with Mountaintop Removal Song/Video
jeffbiggers
In Historic Move, Iceland Becomes the First Western European Nation to Recognize Palestinian Statehood
Tikkun Daily
A Non-Mystery and Obligatory Question: What Race is Herman Cainâs âMistressâ Ginger White?
Chauncey DeVega
Iran Should Not be Attacked, But IT is Problem #1
Tikkun Daily
NY Timesâ Umbrella Man Exposed
Russ Baker, WhoWhatWhy.com
National Disgrace Rises in Illinois Corn Country: 80-Foot Coal Slurry Mountain
jeffbiggers
The News You Did and Didnât Hear From Big Pharma This Thanksgiving
Martha Rosenberg
After the Deficit Committee, A New Propaganda Push from the War Profiteers
Robert Greenwald
AlterNet
The 1 Percent Indifferent to Their Indebtedness
Leo Gerard
Mystery of the Day: The Washington Post Asks âWhy Arenât Blacks Embracing Occupy Wall Street?â
Chauncey DeVega
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Two separate girls! Packard Childrenâs surgeons separate conjoined twins
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If We Clear Out Our Ideological Cobwebs, Perhaps Americans Can Have a Long Overdue Discussion
Earon Davis
German Radiation Expert: Fukushima âAtomic Bombâ Possible
grantlawrence
Strange case of Kentucky soldier charged with espionage
Christopher Hignite
Petition to Stop Foreclosures, Hold Banks Accountable!
danbacher
The Great Rice Shortage
E. B. Klassen
Occupy Wall Street? No Problem!
Jacob Freeze
Naming Names: Exposing the World Banking Fraternity
Dr Stuart Jeanne Bramhall
Occupy everythingâ¦but after the anger, then what?
Pat Thomas
Remember, Joe, There Is No Tea Party
Earon
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6 Shocking Revelations About Wall Street's "Secret Government"
By Les Leopold / AlterNet
Photo Credit: john flanigan
How the Drone Warfare Industry Took Over Our Congress
By Tom Barry
AlterNet
Meet the Secessionist Group Waiting for the Collapse of US Empire So the "South Can Rise Again"
By Janet Smith, Ryan Lenz
Southern Poverty Law Center
Thanks to Nurses Union and Occupy Wall Street, Pressure for Wall Street Speculation Tax Grows
By Sarah Jaffe
AlterNet
6 Kinds of Sex Scandals: What Should Be Exposed? What Should be Left Private?
By Amanda Marcotte
AlterNet
BELIEF
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Why Many Evangelical Christians Are More "Un-American" Than US Muslims
David Sirota / Salon
DRUGS
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Study: Legalizing Medical Pot Reduces Fatal Car Crashes
Stephen C. Webster / Raw Story
ECONOMY
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5,000 Military Families Illegally Foreclosed On -- How We Can Prosecute Bank Crimes
Dylan Ratigan / Dylan Ratigan
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Are Contradictory Immigration Laws Leaving Families in Legal Limbo?
Valeria Fernandez / New America Media
The Shocking Ways the Corporate Prison Industry Games the System
Rania Khalek / AlterNet
OCCUPY WALL STREET
What If They Sent in Social Services to Help Occupations Instead of Riot Cops to Bust Heads?
Joshua Holland / AlterNet
A Look at America's Geography Shows That the Tea Party Is Doomed
Colin Woodard / Washington Monthly
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Why Is iPhone's Siri Hiding Abortion Info? 10 Things the Device Will Help You Get Instead of Abortion
Megan Carpentier / Raw Story
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The Power of Occupy Wall Street Is Not Just What They're Doing, But How They're Doing It
Sarah Jaffe / AlterNet
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The Strange Argument That Dominique Strauss-Kahn Was Set Up
Irin Carmon / Salon
WORLD
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Lookout: After the Deficit Committee, There's a New Propaganda Push From the War Profiteers
Robert Greenwald / AlterNet
CIVIL LIBERTIES
Indefinite Military Detention of Citizens on US Soil Still in Pentagon Spending Bill
Steven Rosenfeld / AlterNet
WATER
Josh Fox: Are We About to Witness the Liquidation Sale of New York and its Drinking Water?
Sabrina Artel / AlterNet
PERSONAL HEALTH
So What Does it Mean that Studies Reveal that Moderate Drinkers Are Healthier than Teetotalers ?
Anneli Rufus / AlterNet
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Meet 5 Big Lenders Profiting From the $1 Trillion Student Debt Bubble (Hint: You Know Some of Them Already)
Sarah Jaffe / AlterNet
OCCUPY WALL STREET
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How Zuccotti Park Became Zuccotti Prison: Creeping American Police State
Tom Engelhardt / TomDispatch.com
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'We the People' versus 'We the Corporation': Sentiment Builds for Banning Corporate Personhood, But Tough Road Ahead.
Steven Rosenfeld / AlterNet
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Our Right to Privacy Has Been Systematically Shrunk. What's Left?
Patricia J. Williams / The Nation
TEA PARTY AND THE RIGHT
Do Allegations of 13-Year Adulterous Affair Spell Doom for Herman Cain?
Adele M. Stan / AlterNet
Teen Girl Defiant Against GOP Governor Brownback: Here Are 5 More Stories of Badass Kids Standing Up to Right-Wingers
Sarah Seltzer / AlterNet
Why Do Young Voters Love Ron Paul?
David Sirota / Salon
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Newt Gingrich on the Drug War: Execute Mexican Cartel Leaders (And More Terribly Draconian Ideas)
Phillip Smith / Drug War Chronicle
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Around the World, Medical Workers Join Protests on the Side of the 99%
Michelle Chen / In These Times
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To Conservatives, Climate Change is Trojan Horse to Abolish Capitalism
Naomi Klein / The Nation
BOOKS
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Bill Clinton's Unreality: Tinkering With Unpassable Ideas, when Transformation is What We Need
Dave Johnson / AlterNet
Can an Occupation Movement Survive if it No Longer Occupies a Space? Lessons from Across the Land
Arun Gupta / Salon
ECONOMY
Class Segregation: Rich Hunker Down in Wealthy Enclaves -- Leaving the Rest of America's Neighborhoods to Deteriorate
Sam Pizzigati / Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality
Inside the Student Movement: Undeterred by Crackdown, Activists Around the Country Gear Up for Bigger Actions
Manissa McCleave Maharawal / AlterNet
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Government Crackdown on Free Speech: Are They Firing Employees for Exercising Their Rights?
Peter Van Buren / TomDispatch.com
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Wage Theft at Wal-Mart Warehouses? Fourth Lawsuit in Two Years Filed on Behalf of Underpaid Workers
Kari Lydersen / In These Times
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How Creepy Conservative Christian Modesty Doctrines Harm Young Women
Sierra / RH Reality Check
WORLD
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The New Wild West: Will Citizens and the Environment Suffer as an Oil Rush Engulfs West Africa?
Meena Bhandari / IPS News
OCCUPY WALL STREET
Naomi Wolfâs â?Shocking Truthâ About the â?Occupy Crackdownsâ Offers Anything but the Truth
Joshua Holland / AlterNet
5 Reasons the Religious Right Should Stop Whining About Being Persecuted
Rob Boston / AlterNet
WORLD
Yet Another Absurd Airport Indignity: The Red Carpet Rolled Out for the Wealthy
Emma Mustich / Salon
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Herman Cain: What High-Tech Lynching?
Melissa Harris-Perry / The Nation
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Occupy Wall Street: A Leader-full Movement in a Leaderless Time
Micah L. Sifry / techPresident
MEDIA
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What's Fit to Print? The Mainstream Media's Misguided Obsession With "Objectivity"
Bhaskar Sunkara / AlterNet
PERSONAL HEALTH
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Corporations Are Patenting Human Genes and Tissues -- Here's Why That's Terrifying
Brad Jacobson / AlterNet
WORLD
Can Killer Drones Be Turned on America? 50 Countries Are Trying to Get Their Hands on Military Drone Technology -- What Will They Do With It?
John Feffer / Foreign Policy in Focus
MEDIA
7 Things Fox Viewers Are Wildly Misinformed About
Eric Boehlert / Media Matters for America
OCCUPY WALL STREET
OWS and the Power of Creative Protest
Allison Kilkenny / The Nation
SEX & RELATIONSHIPS
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"I'm a Feminist Who Loves 'Demeaning' Porn" -- Is That Normal?
Tracy Clark-Flory / Salon
MEDIA
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The Roots' Big Bachmann #Fail: 5 Songs They Could Have Used To Snark Her -- Without the Ugly Sexism
Megan Carpentier / Women's Media Center
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When the World Outlawed War: An Interview with David Swanson
Bruce E. Levine / AlterNet
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How Students Landed on the Front Lines of Class War
Juan Cole / Truthdig
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