NAACP Calls for No More Charters Until Privatized Schools Face Same Standards as Public Schools

By Steven Rosenfeld, AlterNet

Seeking oversight, civil rights protections and transparency. READ MORE»

We Are Living in the Golden Age of Defense Waste and Corruption; Trump Will Make It Much Worse

By David Morris, AlterNet

Let's talk "Guns and Butter." READ MORE»

It's the Republicans Who Rig Elections: The GOP History of Voter Suppression Goes Way Back

By Heather Digby Parton, Salon

Donald Trump's paranoid attacks on democracy aside, only one party has a history of manipulating elections. READ MORE»

Why the Election Isn’t Quite Locked up for Hillary... Yet

By Robert Kuttner, The American Prospect

What happens on—and after—election day remains far from certain. READ MORE»

The Peculiar Role Prayer Plays for the Christian Right in Its Crusade to Make Abortion Illegal

By Valerie Tarico, AlterNet

Just imagine if God answered these Christian prayers. READ MORE»

Heightened Awareness: Anxiety Can Lead to Pain During Sex

By Carrie Weisman, AlterNet

Clearly anxiety can be an obstacle to a healthy sex life and needs to be talked about. READ MORE»

Why Trump Spreading Fears About the Election Is So Dangerous

By Thom Hartmann, AlterNet

Even if he loses, Trump's hateful rhetoric will have reverberations for years to come. READ MORE»

There Are Important Under-the-Radar Victories Happening While America Bemoans the Trump Disaster

By Rebecca Gordon, TomDispatch

Trump has played a significant role in transforming the news into the strange, obsessive, 24/7 creature it is today, and in return the media made him. READ MORE»

Blood-Sucking 'Treatment Industrial Complex': The New Private Prisons Hustle to Stay in Business (Video)

By Robert Greenwald, Emily Verdugo, Brave New Films

Beware the prison industry's embrace of treatment, rehabilitation and "alternatives," for a new gravy train. READ MORE»

The $1 Billion Election No One Is Noticing

By John Light, BillMoyers.com

While most media attention is on the presidential circus, candidates for statewide and local offices have raked in massive amounts of campaign donations. READ MORE»

What the Narcissists Have Done to Our Jobs and Health

By Paul Buchheit, AlterNet

Many of the super wealthy are imbued with a distinct sense of entitlement. READ MORE»

U.S. Allies Are Funding ISIS (and Hillary Knew All Along)

By Patrick Cockburn, CounterPunch

It is not as if Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State and the U.S. foreign policy establishment in general did not know what was happening.  READ MORE»

Howard Stern: I Knew What I Was Doing When I Had Trump on Show to Talk About Sex

By Seema Mehta, Los Angeles Times

"I knew it would entertain the audience." READ MORE»

6 Good Reasons You Should Stay Away From High-Fructose Corn Syrup

By Rudy Mawer, Authority Nutrition

Avoiding high-fructose corn syrup may be one of the easiest and most effective ways for you to improve your health. READ MORE»

It's a Thing: Cops and Juries in Drug War-Happy Kansas are Refusing to Enforce Pot Prohibition

By Justin Gardner, The Free Thought Project

Even in the reddest of red states, marijuana is becoming de facto acceptable.  READ MORE»