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1.25 Billion Chicken Wings? The Vast Amounts of Crappy Food Americans Consume on Super Bowl Sunday
By Tara Lohan / AlterNet
We've somehow turned watching a sport into eating (and drinking) like it's a sport.
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A Colossal Failure: Sundance Award-Winning Film Sheds New Light on Destructive Drug War
By Amy Goodman
Democracy Now!
Thought Police: The Threat to Internet Freedom
By Julianne Escobedo Shepherd
AlterNet
Why is Hollywood So Afraid of Black Women?
By Channing Kennedy
ColorLines
How Yelp Destroyed the Thrill of Exploring
By Will Doig
Salon


'Let’s Stay Together' -- Can Obama’s Charm Offensive Woo Back Disgruntled Progressives?
By Sarah Seltzer / AlterNet
The Real Goal of Arizona’s Book-Banning Thought Police: Harass Latinos
By Rinku Sen / ColorLines
What do Rihanna's Pot-Smoking Photos Really Reveal? The Divide Between Mainstream Culture and Drug Law
By Kassandra Frederique / AlterNet
"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
Shit Everyone Says: What Does the Latest YouTube Meme Say About The People Making It?
By B Michael Payne / AlterNet
How Did We Get So Indebted and What Can We Do About It?
By Hannah Tepper / Salon
Is This Land Made for You and Me--or The Super-Rich?
By Bill Moyers, Michael Winship / TruthOut.org
Victory for Internet Freedom: Obama Announces Opposition to SOPA, Congress Shelves Bill
By Steve Benen / Washington Monthly

Katrina vanden Heuvel: Why I Swapped Yoga for Kickboxing This Election Year
By Katrina vanden Heuvel / Comment Is Free
Sucker: How Cable Companies Make You Pay For Channels You'll Never Watch
By Stephen Pizzo / Smirking Chimp
Latest Anonymous Hack of Security Company Proves How Serious Cyber-Activists Have Gotten
By Loz Kaye / Comment Is Free
How Sex, Bombs and Burgers Shaped our World
By Thomas Rogers / Salon
Why "Downton Abbey" Is One of the Best New Shows on TV
By Alison Pace / AlterNet

Hip-Hop Diplomacy? How the State Department Uses Rap to Spread Propaganda Abroad
By Julianne Escobedo Shepherd / AlterNet
Angelina Jolie Film Illuminates Rape as a War Crime—but Politics are Murky
By Lynn Parramore / AlterNet
‘Yo, Is This Racist?’ Andrew Ti’s Tumblr Has Your (Hilarious) Answer
By Channing Kennedy / ColorLines
Filming Against Odds: Undocumented Youth “Come Out” With Their Dreams
By Anne Galisky / Feministe
Eve Ensler Calls for a Billion Women to Strike Against Sexual Violence
By Emine Saner / The Guardian
10 Pop Monstrosities That Almost Destroyed Our Culture in 2011
By Julianne Escobedo Shepherd / AlterNet

What You Didn't Know About the South: Surprises from a White Southerner
By Lynn Parramore / AlterNet
Poor White Blight: How Rapper Yelawolf (and Eminem Before Him) Turns Hip-Hop's Eye to the Trailer Park
By B Michael Payne / AlterNet
Not Sexy: Victoria’s Secret 'Fair-Trade' Cotton Harvested by Child Slaves
By Julianne Escobedo Shepherd / AlterNet
Why Is Incest All Over Prime Time?
By Tracy Clark-Flory / Salon
$9.6 Million for Casanova's Memoirs? Why Are the French Still Impressed With Sexual Cads?
By Julianne Escobedo Shepherd / AlterNet

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