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My Friend, the Murderer

By Amy Butcher / Salon

The Kevin who took a steak knife to his ex's throat is not the Kevin I know.

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Punk at the Met: For People Who've Never Had to Safety-Pin Their Clothes

By Ayesha Adamo / AlterNet

Why Do Christian Megapastors Keep Getting Caught in Sordid Sex Scandals?

By April M. Short / AlterNet

What Will It Take for Us to Recognize That the Way We Live Could Be Destroying Life as We Know It?

By Marty Kaplan / AlterNet

Cleveland Horror Caps Week of Violence Against Women

By Leslie Savan / The Nation

Punk at the Met: For People Who've Never Had to Safety-Pin Their Clothes

Is 'The Great Gatsby' a Movie or a Shopping Promo?

Footloose Redux: 33 High School Students Suspended for 'Twerking' Video

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The Cruelty of the American Empire Makes Mother's Day Impossible for Countless Moms Across the Planet

Jodie Evans, Charles Davis / AlterNet

Is 'The Great Gatsby' a Movie or a Shopping Promo?

Lynn Stuart Parramore / AlterNet

The New York Times' Review on Iron Man 3 Misses the Point

Jim Naureckas / FAIR

Mad Science or School-to-Prison? Criminalizing Black Girls

Sikivu Hutchinson / Black Agenda Report

Why the "Sexually Pure Good Girl" Is a BS Myth That Screws Both Women and Men

Lindy West / Jezebel

Zoloft Put the Pleasure in My Sobriety

Maia Szalavitz / The Fix

“A Lake of Blood and Destruction” – The Voices We Never Hear From America's Wars

Fred Branfman / AlterNet

How America's Endless Civil War Between Protestant Sects Is at the Heart of American Identity

Hazel Rose Markus Alana Conner / Hudson Street Press

How a Well-Meaning Progressive Accidentally Launched Powerball Lottery Industry Across America

Matthew Vaz / In These Times

Gen. Petraeus with a Video Game Cameo Appearance? War Games Are Almost Indistinguishable from America's Imperial Wars

Adam Hudson / Turnstyle News

Moyers: The Amazing Power of Music to Create Social Change

Bill Moyers, Peter Yarrow, Francine Wheeler / Moyers & Company

Casinos Are Booming Thanks to State Governments' Need to Exploit Gambling Addicts for Revenue

Alyssa Figueroa / AlterNet

Would You Give Up Eating Hamburgers to Stop Climate Change?

David Sirota / AlterNet

Welcome to the Masturbate-a-thon

Paul Krassner / AlterNet

High School Rapper Arrested and Facing Terrorism Charges For Rap About Boston Marathon Bombing

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Footloose Redux: 33 High School Students Suspended for 'Twerking' Video

Steven Hsieh / AlterNet

Pentagon Uses the Upcoming "Man of Steel" Superman Movie to Promote New F-35 Fighter Jet

Sean McElwee / AlterNet

The Decline and Fall, and Hopeful Resurrection, of One of America's Greatest Divas, Lauryn Hill

Ayesha Adamo / AlterNet

Wikipedia Decides to Segregate American Women Authors

Katie McDonough / Salon

Josh Fox's 'Gasland' Sequel Opens, a Tour Through a Land of Abandoned Homes and Broken Promises

Alison Rose Levy / AlterNet

Robert Greenwald Exposes the War on Whistleblowers and the Rise of Our National Security State

Amy Goodman, Juan Gonzalez / Democracy Now!

'42': Jackie Robinson Fought for Equality Before Baseball Came Calling

Mark Thompson / AlterNet

Kardashian Kapture: Where Can We Find Stories of Ordinary People Facing Real Problems?

Kelly Huddleston / AlterNet

War on Whistleblowers: How the Obama Administration Destroyed Thomas Drake For Exposing Government Waste

Marcy Wheeler / AlterNet

5 Ways to Get Off the Well-Marketed Path

Christina Ammon / AlterNet

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