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9 Ways the Right’s Ayn Randian Experiment Screws Over the Young

RJ Eskow
Blog for Our Future
The decades-long assault on our core social values is on the verge of consuming its first complete generation of Americans.

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Why America & China's Future Plans Are Totally Nuts

James Howard Kunstler
Kunstler.com
Big plans for the future for the world's biggest economies will take them both further down the hole.

Nigella Lawson Apparently Choked by Her Husband in the Middle of a Restaurant -- and Nobody Stepped in to Stop It

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Salon
Society still has a long way to go.

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NYU’s Gilded Age: Students Struggle With Debt While Vacation Homes Are Lavished on the University’s Elite

Pam Martens, Russ Martens
AlterNet
The problems at NYU are emblematic of an insular institution whose Board is heavily dominated by the same Wall Street people who heaped disgrace upon their own institutions.

Will Legalizing Pot Destroy Humboldt Or Transform It into the Napa Valley of Weed?

Emily Brady
AlterNet
The marijuana capital of the world tries to figure out the future of its illicit product.
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Permanent Washington’s Backlash to Edward Snowden

The New Generation of American Patriots Are the Whistlebowers Who Came of Age After 9/11

U.S. Supreme Court Rejects GOP Voter Supression Tactic

This Week in Poverty: Congress Turns Its Back on Rural America

Israel Is Stirs the Pot in Syria

Jonathan Cook / CounterPunch

Everything Americans Think They Know About Drugs Is Wrong: A Scientist Explodes the Myths

Kristen Gwynne / AlterNet

Obama and His Allies Say the Govt Doesn't Listen to Your Phone Calls -- But the FBI Begs to Differ

Max Blumenthal / AlterNet

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Texas Jailers Ran a 'Rape Camp' Behind Bars, Women Claim

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Edward Snowden Q and A: "The US Government Destroyed Any Possibility of a Fair Trial at Home"

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9 Ways the Right’s Ayn Randian Experiment Screws Over the Young

15-Year-Old Girl Humiliated By TSA Officer Who Told Her to 'Cover Yourself'

5 Ways the Global Security State Can't Stop Itself from Abusing Our Privacy and Destroying People's Lives

Tom Engelhardt / Tom Dispatch

Christian College Expels Student Over Lesbian Relationship--And Then Demands $6,000 in Tuition

Alex Kane / AlterNet

How Corporate Greed Is Starving Our Public School System

Paul Buchheit / AlterNet

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Miss Utah Bombs While Answering Question About Gender Wage Gap

Lindsey Graham: GOP in a Death Spiral

White Suburban Soccer Moms Love NSA Surveillance

Minors Who Commit Sex Crimes Shouldn't Be Branded for Life as Sex Offenders

If We Can't Stop Corporations from Hiding in Cayman Islands to Avoid Taxes, We All Need to Become Pirates

Paolo Cirio / Creative Time Reports

911 Callers Who Report Overdoses Shouldn't Get Hit with Drug Charges

Tessie Castillo / AlterNet

Fracking Is Already Straining U.S. Water Supplies

Tom Kentworthy / Think Progress

Are the Young People That Shrinks Label as Disruptive Really Anarchists with a Healthy Resistance to Oppressive Authority?

Edward Snowden Had a Breaking Point, Where He Decided to Risk It All to Fix This Country -- What's Yours?

How the Transition Movement Is Spreading to Towns Across America

Do Women Have Less Fun Than Men?

A Fascinating New Theory About the Human Mind, Evolution and Mortality

Ajit Varki, Danny Brower / Twelve

How Predatory Reformers Are Destroying Education and Profiting at Our Children's Expense

Michael Gecan / Boston Review

Why All Vaginas Are Beautiful and Labiaplasty Is Such a Scam

Tanya Lee Markul / Rebelle Society

Male Menopause? Scientific Study Says It's Possible—If 'Cougar' Women Have More Kids

Investigate Booz Allen Hamilton, not Edward Snowden

Investing in Education Creates More Than Twice as Many Jobs as Military Spending

The Dangers of Corporations Controlling National Secrets

Major Push to End Sexual Assault Epidemic in Military Turned Back in Senate

Adele M. Stan / RH Reality Check

Is the Rise of Filthy Gonzo Porn Actually Dangerous, Or Are People Overreacting?

David Rosen / AlterNet

How America's Bully Economy leads to a "Bully Society"

Jessie Klein / NYU Press

Did Hollywood Help Make NSA Surveillance Permissible?

Atheists Can Be Just As Obnoxious As Christians

Can Utah's Beautiful Wildlands Survive an Energy Grab?

Activist for Undocumented Students Punks Audience with Fake Apology for Discriminatory College Applications

The Latest Outrageous Waste of Money for the Pentagon's Playthings

Medea Benjamin, James Marc Leas / AlterNet

The NSA and Pentagon Dream of Total Information Awareness

Pepe Escobar / Asia Times

Secret Trade Agreements Threaten to Undo Our Last Shreds of Food Safety

Katherine Paul, Ronnie Cummins / AlterNet

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Texas Students Thrown in Jail for Days ... as Punishment for Missing School?

Why the Media and Power Establishment Prevented the Public from Understanding the Tsarnaev Bomber Brothers' Motives

10 of the Most Lied About Drugs

Fraternity Watched As African American Mail Carrier Hauled 79 Boxes Labelled "F*ggot N*gger" Backward

26 Members of Congress to Live Off Food Stamp Budget to Protest Cuts

Rebecca Leber / Think Progress

WATCH: John Oliver Humiliates Pat Robertson, Who is Afraid of Gay Boy Scouts

AlterNet

AlterNet Comics: Tom Tomorrow on NSA Surveillance

Tom Tomorrow / AlterNet

Unprecedented Coalition Pushes Back on Government’s Domestic Spying

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