Why Is Socialism Doing So Well in Deep-Red North Dakota?

By Les Leopold, AlterNet Mar 30, 2013 North Dakota's thriving state bank makes a mockery of Wall Street's casino banking system -- and that's why financial elites want to crush it. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

What’s the Solution to Rising Health Care Costs?

Staff / Truthdig May 29, 2012 Obamacare did nothing to stop the cost of employer-based health insurance from growing at twice the rate of inflation during the Great Recession, and for that and other reasons, progressives want to get rid of it. AlterNet editor Joshua Holland has a cheaper and arguably more practical idea: Open the Medicare system to anyone who wants to buy into it. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Whose Corporations? Our Corporations!

By Ken Jacobsen, AlterNet Apr 7, 2012 Historically, corporations were understood to be responsible to a complex web of constituencies, including employees, communities, society at large, suppliers, and shareholders. But in the era of deregulation, the interests of shareholders began to trump all the others. How can we get corporations to recognize their responsibilities beyond this narrow focus?How can we get corporations to recognize their responsibilities to society, rather than just shareholders? Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )

Gated Intellectuals, Fortress America, and the Politics of Occupy

By Henry A. Giroux, Truthout Mar 21, 2012 A group of right-wing extremists would have the American public believe it is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of a market society. Dig deeper ( 14 Min. Read )

Is Larry Summers Taking Kickbacks From the Banks He’s Bailing Out?

Staff / Truthdig May 30, 2009 Why did Goldman Sachs, Citigroup and Morgan Stanley steer millions to a company Larry Summers directed while he administered "stress tests" on them? Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

Did Bush Put a Hit Out on Fannie, Freddy?

Staff / Truthdig Jul 22, 2008 From madcap marketeer Jim Cramer to wired alt-blogger Scott Thill, there are more than a few braniacs who believe the Bush White House did not just watch the collapse of Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac but actually engineered it as yet another sortie in the long GOP war against the New Deal. Never fear, though, as The Onion has already written a satirical report on efforts to build a better bubble. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

The 13 Worst People in America

Staff / Truthdig Oct 31, 2006 Alternet has compiled a cheeky list of the most terrifying people in the U.S.A. Rick "Purpose-Driven Life" Warren, above, makes the list for his scary ability to recruit followers into his anti-gay-marriage, anti-stem-cell, anti-euthanasia crusade. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Sean Hannity Concert Guest Gets Tossed for Being Liberal

Staff / Truthdig Jul 28, 2006 Check out this video a blogger (and AlterNet) made of being tossed out of Sean Hannity's "Freedom Concert" simply for being liberal. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Alternet’s 10 Signs of the Impending Police State

Staff / Truthdig May 27, 2006 An indispensible roundup, and it's not just The War and The Spying. Alternet also points to presidential signing statements, free speech zones, the Internet clampdown, and touchscreen voting machines. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )