AlterNet Newsletter - 10 April 2012

AlterNet Newsletter

The Making of a Rampage Murderer: What the Brutal Life of Oakland Shooter One L. Goh Says About America
The cruelty, predation and concentration of wealth today has sparked a new type of murder that has more in common with insurgency violence than serial murder.READ MORE
Mark Ames / Consortium News
Disposable Professors? How the Labor Crisis Threatens Higher Education
Adjunct faculty and grad students across America have had enough of service cuts and low wages. Should we expect an "Adjunct Spring"? READ MORE
s.e. smith / AlterNet
Inside Scoop: Can Elizabeth Warren Really Win?
It's Massachusetts' fickle independents who'll decide her high-stakes showdown with Scott Brown. Here's a look at what they think of her so far. READ MORE
E.J. Graff / The Nation

- 5 Ways to Avoid Getting Busted for Pot
How not to become a statistic in our nation's enormous, expensive war on marijuana. READ MORE
By Scott Morgan / AlterNet

- Why Poorer States Aren't Buying What Romney's Selling
The Republican party appears to be increasingly divided among class lines. READ MORE
By Walter Dean Burnham, Thomas Ferguson / AlterNet

- The National Review: Always Was and Still Is Wildly Racist
John Derbyshire may be gone, but William F. Buckley's magazine championed divisive racial politics -- and still does. READ MORE
By Joan Walsh / Salon

- Obama's Biggest Environmental 'Victory' Was Really a Big Win for Gas Drillers
While new regulations on power plants are a hit to Big Coal, they are a boon to the gas industry. READ MORE
By Joshua Frank / AlterNet

- 11 Interracial Romances that Changed America
A history of how the interracial relationship has altered in culture through literature and film. READ MORE
By Nicholas Powers / AlterNet

- How 3 Days in The Psych Ward Saved My Life
A suicide attempt in sobriety landed me in a psych ward, surrounded by people who talked about porn, corn and hearing voices. They just may have saved my life. READ MORE
By Amy Dresner / The Fix

- Are Homophobes Just Repressing Their Homosexual Desires? New Study Says Yes
A new joint study conducted by the University of England in Essex and the University of California in Santa Barbara will show how homophobia can be a fearful symptom of same-sex desire. READ MORE
By Julianne Escobedo Shepherd / AlterNet

Selling Blood, Scavenging Trash With Children in Tow: "Welfare Reform" is Utterly Failing in the Face of Recession
By Sarah Jaffe | AlterNet

Watch Activists Block Sanford Police Department in Protest of Trayvon Martin Case
By Julianne Escobedo Shepherd | AlterNet

U.S. Corporations Return To Pre-Recession Profits, But They’re Not Translating Into U.S. Jobs
By Pat Garofalo | ThinkProgress

Tired of Hearing About Pink Slime? Try Chicken
By Marion Nestle | Food Politics

Fox Orlando Affiliate Calls Neo-Nazis ‘A Civil Rights Group’
By Judd Legum | ThinkProgress

Public Citizen Tells Hospitals to Stop Handing Out Free Brand-Name Infant Formula
By AlterNet

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