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Check out the 40 stories and blog posts most commented on in the past week.
Rick Shenkman, Tomdispatch.com. July 2, 2008. [501 total comments]
Millions of Americans are embarrassingly ill-informed and they do not care that they are.
Brad Reed, AlterNet. July 1, 2008. [192 total comments]
A shorter version of our long national nightmare.
John Dolan, AlterNet. July 2, 2008. [171 total comments]
Warmongerer and neocon Christopher Hitchens just noticed that waterboarding is torture!
Kai Wright, The Nation. June 30, 2008. [127 total comments]
How the mortgage industry stole black America's hard-won wealth.
Max Blumenthal, TheNation.com. July 2, 2008. [115 total comments]
Obama has made a major effort to woo evangelicals, but at what cost to church-state separation?
Gayle Greene, Ms. Magazine. July 3, 2008. [106 total comments]
And why is the high level of insomnia among women ignored by researchers?
Naomi Klein, The Nation. July 4, 2008. [95 total comments]
The Iraq disaster and rising gas and food prices have people across the globe in a state of fear and shock. It's high times for Bush & Co.
Bruce E. Levine, AlterNet. July 4, 2008. [89 total comments]
Just because a Harvard academic says something is so, doesn't mean it is.
Heather Wood, Sirens Magazine. June 30, 2008. [83 total comments]
The temptations and hype surrounding the Brazilian wax turn into a case of buyer's remorse for this author.
Tom Engelhardt, Tomdispatch.com. June 30, 2008. [67 total comments]
Five years after the invasion, to speak of this urge to surge and its results as "success" or as "good news" is essentially obscene.
Collin Dunn, Huffington Post. July 1, 2008. [67 total comments]
Sometimes the kick we need to green our lives is a hard look at the numbers.
Robert Scheer, Truthdig. July 4, 2008. [65 total comments]
This Fourth of July, let's remember that it's not our God-given American right to reorder the world to our liking.
Frederick Lane, Beacon Press. July 3, 2008. [64 total comments]
Even worse, Bush wants to ensure that faith-based organizations receiving federal funds can discriminate in their hiring on the basis of religion.
Kyle de Beausset, AlterNet. July 1, 2008. [64 total comments]
Intolerance isn't just popular among the ignorant. It is within every one of us.
Robert Parry, Consortium News. June 30, 2008. [63 total comments]
If you listen to Bush's legal advisors, questions about the limits of his authority might not be hypothetical anymore.
Jill Filipovic, FeministeAlterNet: PEEK. July 3, 2008. [56 total comments]
Esmin Green's final agony caught on surveillance camera. Staff looked on but failed to act.
Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!. July 1, 2008. [50 total comments]
Hersh reports on a secret Congress-approved plan for activities ranging from supporting dissident groups to spying on Iran's nuclear program.
Gabriel Thompson, AlterNet. July 4, 2008. [47 total comments]
Meet the Council of Conservative Citizens -- a group that offers a biblical defense of slavery and laments the surivival of African babies.
Bruce Mirken, AlterNet. July 2, 2008. [45 total comments]
WHO survey of 17 countries finds that we have the highest rates of marijuana and cocaine use.
Isaac Fitzgerald, The Real News NetworkAlterNet: Video. June 30, 2008. [44 total comments]
Eric Alterman and Pepe Escobar duke it out over Obama's recent moves on the campaign trail.
Scott Thill, AlterNet. July 3, 2008. [40 total comments]
Google's motto is "Don't be evil." But when it comes to its environmental impact, some think the company can't live up to its own hype.
Allison H. Fine, Personal Democracy Forum. July 3, 2008. [39 total comments]
Historians will undoubtedly consider our current era of voting machines the technological equivalent of the 8-track tape machine.
Martha Burk, Ms. Magazine. June 30, 2008. [34 total comments]
The economy, war, the health care crisis and tax policies all affect women differently than men. And women have the power to change them all.
Gary Brecher, AlterNet. July 2, 2008. [33 total comments]
One thing the United States doesn't get about guerrilla warfare: It's not over until the guerrillas win.
Ari Melber, AlterNet: PEEK. June 30, 2008. [33 total comments]
Concerned netizens taking the fight to campaign's official website.
Amanda Marcotte, PandagonAlterNet: Sex and Relationships. July 1, 2008. [32 total comments]
Social conservatives refuse to give up on titillating conspiracy theory.
AlterNet BooksJuly 1, 2008. [31 total comments]
Right-wing radio shock jocks are filling the airwaves with racist and sexist hate speech. Our new book takes the issue head on. With video.
Amanda Terkel, Think ProgressAlterNet: Rights and Liberties. July 3, 2008. [28 total comments]
Former Bush adviser must tell Congress what he knows about U.S. Attorney purge, Don Siegelman prosecution.
David Borden, Drug War Chronicle. June 30, 2008. [24 total comments]
The day we legalize drugs is the day we can begin to clean up the mess that the drug prohibition experiment has created.
Lindsay Beyerstein, MajikthiseAlterNet: PEEK. July 1, 2008. [24 total comments]
Sgt. Bill said he didn't need a warrant because he worked for the federal government. Turns out, he was just some random guy.
Amy Goodman, King Features Syndicate. July 3, 2008. [23 total comments]
What should progressives do about Obama's move to the center?
Annalee Newitz, AlterNet. July 2, 2008. [23 total comments]
After 9 long years, it's time to move on. One final thought: don't ever stop ruthlessly criticizing everything that exists.
Jackie Mahendra, AlterNet. July 1, 2008. [21 total comments]
The message has never been clearer: Become a citizen and then vote… before it’s too late.
Amanda Marcotte, PandagonAlterNet: Rights and Liberties. June 30, 2008. [21 total comments]
Violent exorcism A-OK in the Lone Star State, high court rules.
Steve Benen, The Carpetbagger ReportAlterNet: Rights and Liberties. July 1, 2008. [19 total comments]
Like Bush's plan, only more constitutional...
Dr. Reese Halter, AlterNet. June 30, 2008. [19 total comments]
The 850 fires burning in California alone should be a wake up call that we're unprepared for rapid climate change.
Kenneth Kim, New America Media. June 29, 2008. [18 total comments]
Pragmatism prevails amid anti-immigrant fervor.
Satyam Khanna, Think ProgressAlterNet: PEEK. June 30, 2008. [17 total comments]
CIA and JSOC running unprecedented cross-border ops to destabilize Iran.
Isaac Fitzgerald, AlterNetAlterNet: War on Iraq. July 2, 2008. [16 total comments]
Please remember while you watch this video that there are no safety words for the victims of torture.
Steven Rosenfeld, AlterNet. July 2, 2008. [16 total comments]
The GOP’s latest accusations are long on rhetoric but short on facts.
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