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3 Ways Laws Are Stacked to Favor Fracking Companies -- And How We Can Change That
By Peter Montague / AlterNet
The U.S. legal system is strongly biased in favor of economic growth, even if it harms human health and the environment.
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"Jersey Shore" -- Mouthpiece for Mental Health Problems?
By Krystie Yandoli
AlterNet
The Brotox Era: Does Male Vanity Even the Playing Field, Or Condemn Us All to Unreachable Beauty Standards?
By Sarah Seltzer
AlterNet
New Tool Reveals Country's Most Polluted Places: How Close Do You Live?
By Scott Thill
AlterNet
Study: Smoking Pot Won't Give You Lung Cancer, or Hurt Your Lungs at All
By Paul Armentano
NORML
Why You May Be Drinking Soda That Contains a Dangerous Flame Retardant Banned in Europe and Japan
By Brett Israel / Environmental Health News
Why Kids -- and Adults -- Need More Solitude
By Alice Karekezi / Salon
The Side of the Black Panthers That's Been Virtually Ignored: Their Fight for Healthcare Justice
By Angola 3 News / AlterNet
The Wrong Kind of Fat Tax: Forget Taxing Soda to Curb Obesity, Tax Producers of Sugar and Sweetners
By Emily Badger / Miller-McCune.com
Why Is the FDA Saying It's OK to Eat Seafood 10,000 Times Over the Safe Limit for Dangerous Carcinogens?
By Brad Jacobson / AlterNet
The Best, Worst and Most Overlooked Food Stories of 2011
By Ari LeVaux / AlterNet
3 Dumb Decisions the Obama Administration Made That Didn't Help the Country or the President
By Jake Blumgart / AlterNet
Embrace Your Self-Destructive Impulses? How People Can Connect with Dark Parts of Their Psyche for Personal Change
By Richard Schwartz / Psychotherapy Networker
The Health of Children and Consumers Is Threatened by Conservative Push for Corporate Speech Rights
By Steven Rosenfeld / AlterNet
Regulators Crack Down on Micro-Dairies, But Small Farmers Fight Back With Local Food Sovereignty Ordinances
By Rebekah Wilce / AlterNet
"Mind-Mapping": How We Manipulate the People We Love
By David Schnarch / Psychotherapy Networker
Bugs and Krill, the Other White Meats: Time to Start Eating at the Bottom of the Food Chain
By Anneli Rufus / AlterNet
Occupy Your Food Supply: Radical Farmer's March Aims to Bridge Urban-Rural Divide, Focus in on "Food Justice"
By Anna Lekas Miller / AlterNet
How the Occupy Movement Helped Americans Move Beyond Denial and Depression to Action
By Bruce E. Levine / AlterNet
Hazmat Suits to Break Up Occupations? How Mayors Feign Concern for Health to Trash a Growing Movement
By Sarah Jaffe / AlterNet
Forced Pregnancy? Right-Wing Women's Group Thinks Women Raped in the Military Shouldn't Get Abortions
By Amanda Marcotte / RH Reality Check
Radiation From Cell Phones and WiFi Are Making People Sick -- Are We All at Risk?
By Christopher Ketcham / Earth Island Journal
Arsenic in Your Apple Juice? How a Dangerous Poison Found Its Way Into Fruit Juice
By Tom Philpott / Mother Jones Online
U.S. Governors Fight Back, Call on DEA to Pull Marijuana Out of Ridiculous Schedule I Category
By Phillip Smith / Drug War Chronicle
Why Did a Supposedly Feminist Website Advocate Using Plan B as Regular Birth Control?
By Collier Meyerson / Carefree White Girl
Why Is iPhone's Siri Hiding Abortion Info? 10 Things the Device Will Help You Get Instead of Abortion
By Megan Carpentier / Raw Story
So What Does it Mean that Studies Reveal that Moderate Drinkers Are Healthier than Teetotalers ?
By Anneli Rufus / AlterNet
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