AlterNet: Why Shopping at Walmart Is No Bargain

10 Certifiably Insane Rants from the Right-Wing Fringe This Week: War on Santa Edition Janet Allon, AlterNet Megyn Kelly, Donald Trump and Pat Robertson vie for the craziest prize. READ MORE»

How a Texas Cop Who Killed a Double Amputee Holding a Ballpoint Pen Got Away With It Emily DePrang, Texas Observer Police misconduct in shootings is "very, very difficult" to prove, an FBI agent says. READ MORE»

The 5 Biggest Food Trends of 2013 Jill Richardson, AlterNet Unlike fads of years past, like the Atkins Diet or the fat-free craze, most of this year's food trends are healthy ones. READ MORE»

Why Shopping at Walmart Is No Bargain By Maura Stephens, AlterNet One of the biggest reasons people shop at Walmart is because it's cheap. Here are some other ways to save instead. READ MORE»

Police Say Teen Shot Self in Head — While Hands Cuffed Behind Back By Natasha Lennard, Salon.com In yet another case of defying the limits of physiology, 17-year-old Jesus Huerta died in Durham police custody. READ MORE»

Is Pope Francis Just Doing Savvy P.R. For the Oppressive, Dysfunctional Church? By Adele M. Stan, RH Reality Check We must remember that the Catholic Church is losing members and desperately needs to remake its image. READ MORE»

America Is the Most Inhumane Developed Country on the Planet — Are We Going to Let It Stay That Way? By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, AlterNet This week marked the 65th anniversary of the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. What would it be like if people in the U.S. knew they had these rights? READ MORE»

Rich People’s Idea of Charity: Giving to Elite Schools and Operas By Robert Reich, RobertReich.org The wealthy aren't donating to food shelters. They're giving to Yale and fancy theaters for a tax deduction. READ MORE»

How High School Text Books Indoctrinate Youth With A False and Dangerous Sense of Our Racial History By Richard Rothstein, Economic Policy Institute In the US, we do a horrible job of facing up to our racial history, leading us to make less progress than necessary in remedying racial inequality. READ MORE»

Stop Sending Undercover Cops into Our Schools to Entrap Our Kids on Drug Charges By Tony Newman, Drug Policy Alliance As these despicable examples show, more often than not the drug war is ruining young people's lives and doing much more harm than good. READ MORE»

Why Is the US Getting in the Way of International Efforts to Make Clean Water a Basic Human Right? By Shiney Varghese, AlterNet The United States is the only country marring the good works of a UN resolution on the right to safe drinking water and sanitation. READ MORE»