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The Bloody, Twisted, Inverted World of Twilight: Violent Vampire Sex,...

Twilight is saturated with sexist tropes--to the point of being disturbing. But that disturbing element is compelling, too.

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Why Do Young Voters Love Ron Paul?

It's not because they're potheads. It's because they're sick of America's militaristic misadventures.

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How Zuccotti Park Became Zuccotti Prison: Creeping American Police State

America may not be a traditional police state (yet), but it is an increasingly militarized policed state in which rights are regularly tossed out the window.

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5,000 Military Families Illegally Foreclosed On — How We Can Prosecute Bank...

No one is going after banks for foreclosing on active duty troops. Are banks too big for the law?

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The Strange Argument That Dominique Strauss-Kahn Was Set Up

A story in the New York Review of Books and the Financial Times paints a new picture, but it may raise more questions than answers.

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The Shocking Ways the Corporate Prison Industry Games the System

The private prison system has rebounded, growing dramatically, and making big bucks with huge help from the Feds, as large numbers of immigrants are incarcerated.

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Indefinite Military Detention of Citizens on US Soil Still in Pentagon...

The Senate voted Tuesday to support a dangerous expansion of military authority.

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Eliot Spitzer: 5 Ways to Make Banks Pay for Their Secret $7 Trillion Free Ride

The CEOs of major banks maintained they were in good financial shape. Meanwhile, they secretly borrowed massive amounts from the government to stay afloat.

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Who Are the Dudes and the Vipers, and Why Are They Bombing the Afghans?

U.S. Air Force continues bombing Afghanistan, civilian toll remains unknown.

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Why Does the GOP Base Embrace Wacky Intellectual Lightweights Like Herman Cain?

Rightwing populism is an integral part of the conservative project, and it requires "outsider" figures of various sorts, no matter how wacky they may be.

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Why Did a Supposedly Feminist Website Advocate Using Plan B as Regular Birth...

Unraveling a baffling, dangerous, and irresponsible post by the health/beauty editor of women's site XO Jane.

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From Occupation to “Occupyâ€: The Israelification of American Domestic...

The Israelification of America’s security apparatus, recently unleashed against the OWS, has taken place at every level of law enforcement.

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When Is It OK to Tell Rape Jokes?

Are rape jokes the last taboo, or a line that should never be breached?

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People Locked in Tiny Cages, Crying in Pain: What I Saw and Heard When the...

Don't believe the PR. There was nothing peaceful or professional about the LAPD's attack on Occupy LA -- or the way detainees were later treated.

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Why Today’s Voter ID Face-off in Pennsylvania Is Crucial

From: Voting Rights Watch 2012 Voting Rights Watch 2012 Ten voters will attempt to show in court that the law has clear and racially biased impact on Pennsylvanians’ right to vote.

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The Price of Power | Souciant

This is a book about the President, the man elected to “lobby” on behalf of the entire country. Or, rather, to “lobby” on behalf of some very vocal influences in it who got him elected … or spent a...

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Hugh Hefner: Anti-Gay Activists Will ‘Criminalize Your Entire Sex Life’

In the September issue of Playboy, its founder Hugh Hefner has penned an editorial about the importance of supporting LGBT equality and women’s rights. Lashing out at those conservatives who would...

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Paul Ryan Has It Wrong on Where Our Rights Come From

By Matthew Rothschild, August 30, 2012 Actually, they don’t come from God or nature. read more

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Happy Labor Day, courtesy of American workers

This could have been my grandmother and her sister near the turn of the 20th century in a Rhose Island textile mill.

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Senator Writes Off American Justice System In One Tweet

Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) on Friday wrote off the idea that people arrested by the police in the United States deserve to know their rights, and argued that a U.S.

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