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One Hundred Dollars of Virtue
Christopher James Marshall
The Suspiciousness Spectrum: Exploring Paranoia
By David J. Laporte
Poisoned by Industrial Pollution
By Dan Fagin
The Problem With the Immigration Problem
By Elliott Young, From Oregon Humanities
Digging for Nothing
By James Silas Rogers
For Big Problems, Small Solutions
By Charles Eisenstein, From Scaling Up
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The Suspiciousness Spectrum: Exploring Paranoia
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A cancer-ravaged man and his mother work to expose corporate practices of environmental pollution in their town.
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What's behind the belief that immigrants harm our society?
Digging for Nothing
A logic too simple for grown-ups to understand.
Virgin: Mormon Sexuality
By Deja Earley, From “ruminate”
Fish To Eat Always, Never, and Sometimes
An ethical guide to seafood.
The Haunting of Loon Lake Cemetery
Assessing the collateral damage when people and places are attached to ghostly legends.
American Jerk
We have arrived at simultaneously the most and least civil moment in U.S. history...
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Virgin: Mormon Sexuality
By Deja Earley, From “ruminate”
Fish To Eat Always, Never, and Sometimes
By Taras Grescoe, From Bottomfeeder
The Haunting of Loon Lake Cemetery
By Dennis Waskul And Michele Waskul, From Ghostly Encounters
American Jerk
By Todd Schwartz, From Oregon Humanities
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Music Review: Sean Rowe – The Salesman and the Shark
Singer-songwriter Sean Rowe has a voice that grabs you and lyrics that keep it, and when you listen to thefantastic collection of songs on his latest album The Salesman and the Shark, you'll wonder what took so long for Roweto get noticed.
An Unnatural History of Evil Clowns
While most clowns are generally delightful, it’s no hardship to locate a red-nosed, deviant threatening to do you harm! Join us in a look back at the unnatural history of evil clowns.
Song Premiere: David Bromberg – Keep on Drinkin'
Utne Reader premieres David Bromberg's new tune "Keep on Drinkin'" from his new album Only Slightly Mad, which is out September 24 on Appleseed Recordings.
Preservation Through Biocultural Diversity
Tackling endangered species and languages together may be an effective strategy.
Community
Learning to Walk
Working with horses and residents at a prison-alternative ranch.
The Week the World Stood Still
Fifty years after the Cuban Missile Crisis, Noam Chomsky explores what it can still teach us about power, ideology, and global terrorism.
Our Bodies Are Made for Walking
Huge health benefits heighten the need to make sure all Americans live in walkable communities.
The Inequality Debate We Should Be Having
While poverty and division intensify in American cities, presidential candidates refuse to talk seriously about inequality and race.
Mind And Body
Climate Change: It’s Not All in Your Head
The affects of climate change can be harmful to the earth - and your mind.
Deflection or Self-Reflection?
Whether it’s on a macro ormicro level, looking in the mirror can be difficult.
Living With Dementia
Author Christine Bryden’s journey of living with dementia begins when she receives a diagnosis for Alzheimer’s at the age of 46.
The Human Condition: Struggles of Cosmic Insignificance
The polarized mind — a reaction to the human condition and feelings of cosmic insignificance — fixates on one point of view to the utter exclusion of all others.
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