Why We Got Ayn Rand Instead of FDR: Thomas Frank on How Tea Party 'Populism' Derailed a New New Deal
By Thomas Frank / Picador Press
After a brutal recession was brought on by Wall Street greed, it looked for a moment like we'd rejected the Right's economic mythology. Then the "Tea Party" came along.
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Robert Greenwald and Reporter Michael Hastings Take on the Wild and Terrifying Inside Story of America's War Machine
By Robert Greenwald
AlterNet
Revolutionary Jose Maria Sison on US Imperialism and a Way Forward for the Philippines
By Bill Fletcher, Jr.
AlterNet
Shocker: Is Our World Becoming Less Violent?
By Joshua Holland
AlterNet
Some Feet Not Meant for Shoes - Novel Excerpt
By Pamela Klein
AlterNet


More Nature, More Sex, More Sleep: 8 New Year's Resolutions That Will Actually Make You Happy and Healthy
By Alison Pace / AlterNet
Moyers: Why 'We The People' Must Triumph Over Corporate Power
By Bill Moyers / Berrett-Koehler Publishers
The Real History of 'Corporate Personhood': Meet the Man to Blame for Corporations Having More Rights Than You
By Jeffrey Clements / Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Updated Version of Noam Chomsky's "9/11" Book Takes On Bin Laden's Death, Imperial Mentality
By Christopher Bartlo / Foreign Policy in Focus
Bill Clinton's Unreality: Tinkering With Unpassable Ideas, when Transformation is What We Need
By Dave Johnson / AlterNet

Corporations Are Patenting Human Genes and Tissues -- Here's Why That's Terrifying
By Brad Jacobson / AlterNet
Horrific Peek into Women's Prisons Finds: "Sisters, Fighting For Our Lives Together'
By Ida Hartmann / AlterNet
An Unlikely Journey: How a Man From the Conservative Bible Belt Is Fighting Violence Against the World's Women and Girls
By Jill Iscol, Jimmie Briggs / AlterNet
Thom Hartmann: As World Population Reaches 7 Billion, What Will Save Us From Ourselves?
By Thom Hartmann / AlterNet
Top Secret America: The Rise of the New American Security State
By Dana Priest, William M. Arkin / Little, Brown & Co

How Christian Fundamentalism Helped Empower the Top 1% to Exploit the 99%
By Frank Schaeffer / AlterNet
Fighting for Americans' Right to Dissent: A Review of 'Hell No'
By Mandy Van Deven / AlterNet
"Kill The Messenger": New Book Examines How the Media Has Perpetuated Both Good and Evil
By Gar Alperovitz / AlterNet
Women Should Use Sex to Get Ahead? Controversy Erupts Over "Erotic Capital"
By Ida Hartmann / AlterNet

How Companies Plunder and Profit from the Nest Eggs of American Workers
By Ellen Schultz / Portfolio Books
America's Winter of Discontent: A Review of the New Anthology 'We Are Wisconsin'
By Mandy Van Deven / AlterNet
Noam Chomsky on the Dangers of American Empire and Why the US Continues to be Bin Laden's Best Ally
By Noam Chomsky / TomDispatch.com
Atheism U? A New Elite University Focuses on Spreading Humanism
By Jessica Weisberg / Religion Dispatches
Trapped in Economic Hell: Tales from the New Great Depression
By Dale Maharidge / University of California Press

The Surprising History of What Europe's Dictators Thought of the New Deal
By Thaddeus Russell / Free Press/Simon and Schuster
Economic Armageddon: Gretchen Morgensen on How Wall Street Broke the Economy
By Terrence McNally / AlterNet
'Can a White Man Still Be Elected President?' How Identity Politics Are Creating Public Anxiety and Moral Panic
By Gary Younge / Nation Books
Is This the Last Generation That Will Face Opposition to Interracial Marriage?
By Elissa Strauss / AlterNet
Should We Launch an All-Out Assault on Car Culture?
By Tyler Harbottle / The Tyee
Imagine There's No Countries -- It Isn't Hard to Do: New Book Explores One of Earth's Last 'Non-State' Regions
By Javier Sethness / TruthOut.org

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