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9 Most Racist Moments of the 2012 Election

Alex Kane
AlterNet
The GOP appeals to racism to help get out the vote.

Chomsky: Humanity Once Came to the Cliff's Edge of Total Self-Annihilation -- Let's Make Sure It Never Happens Again

Noam Chomsky
TomDispatch
Revisiting the catastrophe that almost was.

Former Republican: How I Learned That Voter ID Laws Pushed By the GOP Are Racist

Jeremiah Goulka
TomDispatch
Why can’t Republican voters see that Republicans pass voter ID laws to suppress voting, not fraud?

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Koch to Employees: Vote Romney or Bad Things Will Happen (Maybe to Your Job)

Adele M. Stan
AlterNet
The boss wants you to know he thinks it's a very bad idea for you to vote for Barack Obama.

Fast Food Companies Like Subway, McDonald’s and Starbucks Are Gaming the System to Avoid Millions in Taxes

Alex Kane
AlterNet
Each year taxpayers get stuck paying hundreds of dollars more because of corporate tax avoidance.
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Lakoff: What Obama Needs to Do in Tomorrow's Debate

Walmart, the Most Powerful Company in the World, Admits that Protests and Strikes Lead to Wage Increases

5 Disturbing Stories About Mitt Romney That Expose His Private Worldview

I Unleashed My Freak!

Even Fox Is Calling Out Romney for Dishonesty

Rebecca Leber / Think Progress

Right-Wing Christian Group Attacks Program That Teach Kids to "Love Thy Neighbor"

Alex Halperin / Salon

Education Profiteering: Wall Street's Next Big Thing?

Jeff Faux / AlterNet

Libertines v. Libertarians: Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s Rejection of Sexual Restraints

Tom Morello Says Paul Ryan Is a "Jackass"

Facing the Climate Gap: How Low-Income Communities of Color Are Leading the Charge on Climate Solutions

'America the Possible': How We Can Reclaim the American Dream and a Just Society

James Gustave Speth / Yale University Press  

Romney Surrogate Says Mitt 'Should Exploit' Libya Attack, While Chris Steven's Father Asks That His Death Not Be Exploited

Alex Kane / AlterNet

Wall Street's Favorite Candidate Slings Mud In Effort To Beat Elizabeth Warren

Sarah Jaffe / AlterNet

Why Goldman Sachs Is All in For Romney: The Enemy of My Enemy Is My President

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State Ballot Measures: 11 Hot Topics in 2012's Other Electoral Frontline

The Truth About Workaholics

Is Anarchism an Idea Whose Time Has Come?

A Plot Against the Suburbs? Dismantling the Right's New Conspiracy Theory

Angie Schmitt / DC.STREETSBLOG

Expose: Former NYC School Chancellor Joel Klein Is Not Telling the Whole Truth About His Personal History

Richard Rothstein / Economic Policy Institute

Bill Maher to Right-Wing Christians: If You Do God's Work, Why Are You Always Wrong?

AlterNet Staff / AlterNet

What I Want to Tell My Daughters About Autonomy and Sex in the Midst of a War on Women

Women Are the Key to the Presidential Debate and Election

Not Just a Union Buster: Why Some of the Nation’s Most Vociferously Anti-Gay Religious Activists Are Backing California's Prop 32

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Over 1,000 People Spell Out 'Dump Citizens United!" on San Francisco Beach

Are Parks Like SeaWorld Harming or Helping Killer Whales?

Jill Richardson / AlterNet

10 Steps to Break Up the Wealth of the Super Rich

Chuck Collins / Berrett-Koehler Publishers

Powerful Court Quietly Takes Marijuana Case That Could Shatter Federal Prohibition Laws

Steven Wishnia / AlterNet

Romney and Ryan Have Resorted to Lying as a Form of Debating

JPMorgan Chase's Debt Collection Agency's Sleazy Tactics to Squeeze Student Loans Debtors of Their Last Cash

Big Win: Walt Disney Company Agrees to Major Deal That Will Help Stop Rainforest Destruction

Charter Schools Sold Like an Investment to Wealthy Foreigners Looking for a Green Card

Three Big Myths Right-Wing Propagandists Are Spreading to Frame the 2012 Election

Jim Hightower / Hightower Lowdown

Crippling Austerity Measures and NATO's War Machine: Tariq Ali On Why the European Union Doesn't Deserve a Nobel

Amy Goodman, Tariq Ali / Democracy Now

10 Best Biden Put-Downs of Paul Ryan in Veep Debate

Adele M. Stan / AlterNet

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Why Are Americans So Easy to Manipulate and Control?

Biden v. Ryan: The Old Pro Takes On the Lying Kid

There Is No Nobel Prize in Economics

2 BILLION Dementia Patients? Medical Establishment Shocked by At-Risk Numbers on the Horizon

Operative Linked To Voter Registration Fraud Still Working For GOP?

Brad Friedman / Brad Blog

Ouch! 'Friday Night Lights' Creator Accuses Romney Campaign of "Stealing" Slogan in Angry Take-Down Letter

Editorial Staff / AlterNet

8 Best Smack-downs of Right-Wing Politicians and Their Hacks

Lauren Kelley / AlterNet

10 Conservatives Who Have Praised American Slavery

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Jon Stewart Takes on the Craziest Rape-Denying, Conspiracy-Spouting GOP Candidates

Paul Ryan Told 24 Myths In 40 Minutes

Igor Volsky / Think Progress  

Kids in Solitary Confinement: America's Official Child Abuse

Who Will Fight for Affirmative Action?

Perry Bacon Jr. / The Grio

What I Learned About Romance from Having Casual Sex

Tracy Clark-Flory / Salon.com

Can You Date Someone With Different Political Views Than You?

Alyssa Figueroa / AlterNet

The Romney Men: 6 Filthy Rich Moguls Who Will Do Anything to Elect Mitt

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