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Life After the Economic Collapse: How Having Less Will Make Us Happier By Sarah van Gelder, Doug Pibel, YES! Magazine Having big cars, fancy TVs and trendy clothes never made us happy. It only drove us into debt -- and increased our dependence on long work hours. Read more »   5 Disastrous Decisions That Got Us into This Economic Mess By Joseph Stiglitz, Vanity Fair We are at a dangerous moment. Behind the debates over future economic policy is a debate over history -- here are the major mistakes that got us here. Read more »   Why Michael Pollan Doesn't Want to Be Secretary of Agriculture By Michael Winship, AlterNet The writer is not biting at an Internet-fueled citizen's movement to draft him for the cabinet post, but he does have some suggestions. Read more »   Republicans Bring Socialism to Millionaires and Screw the Rest of Us By Robert Scheer, Truthdig If tough love is good enough for financially strapped families, why have a poverty program for troubled corporations? Read more »   Plastic Surgery Is Going the Way of the Ugg Boot By Margaret M. Gullette, Women's eNews Women are saying "no" to being nipped and tucked. And the recession may have little to do with it. Read more »   Obama's Smoking Drama By Tony Newman, AlterNet It is no fun having to explain to people, in person or on national television, how you came to start cigarettes again once they "catch" you. Read more »   Health Experts Make a Perverse Push for Fat-Rich, Red Meat Diets By Martha Rosenberg, AlterNet Most dietitians say people already have too much protein in their diets. So why is increased meat consumption being promoted in medical journals? Read more »   Is Obama Getting Bad Advice on His Appointments? By Greg Palast, Huffington Post Joel Klein is being considered for secretary of education, which would make as much sense for our schools as Michael Brown did for disaster relief. Read more »   The New Globalism: A Vision for America's Role in the World By Nick Bromell , John Tirman, MIT Center for International Studies Obama will have to recover and renew the distinctly liberal principles and values embedded in the liberal internationalist tradition. Read more »   PEEK and Video: The hottest buzz and videos on the web     O'Reilly and Rove are Crazy, Say the Economic Crisis Is Just a Media Conspiracy By Melissa McEwan, Shakesville Break out the tinfoil hats. Read more »   McDonald's Labor Practices More Harmful Than Its Food By ZP Heller, Brave New Films McDonald's has super-sized its anti-union ways. Read more »   Man in Need of Medical Attention Gets Tasered By Skittish Police Instead By Digby, Hullabaloo In Oklahoma, a driver goes into severe diabetic shock, but instead of getting help, he's tasered and then handcuffed. Read more »

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