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'How Do You Feel About ISIS': New York Man Goes on Islamophobic Tirade, Attacks Muslim Workers Adam Johnson, AlterNet The NYPD charged the assailant with two hate crimes. READ MORE» Terrifying: Spike in Threats and Intimidation on Women’s Clinics, Activists and Doctors by Extremist Anti-Choicers Amanda Marcotte, Salon In the U.S. and Latin America, there's an increase in stalking and intimidating pro-choice activists and doctors. READ MORE» WATCH: Wilmore Brilliantly Rips Anti-Affirmative Action Crusader Abigail Fisher Adam Johnson, AlterNet Supreme Court ruling could end affirmative action. READ MORE»

Trump’s Religion Test for Immigrants Is Standard Practice in Israel By Philip Weiss, Mondoweiss Israel practices many of the policies that Trump wants the U.S. to implement. READ MORE» Dear Donald: For the First Time Ever, I Am Scared to Go Home By Aleena Karamally, Huffington Post My Islam may not be right for you, but I am not asking you to embrace it. READ MORE» The FBI is Rounding Up Muslims and Charging them With Terrorism for Buying Cellphones By John Vibes, The Free Thought Project One incident took place in Michigan, where three men from Texas were arrested after buying prepaid phones from a Wal-Mart. READ MORE» Citadel Military College Cadets Caught Wearing KKK Hoods While Singing Christmas Carols By Travis Gettys, Raw Story A woman who posted the photos said she was threatened and offered bribes to remove the images from her Facebook page. READ MORE» "I Don't Want to Die. This War Is Not My War": A Syrian in France's Largest Refugee Camp Speaks Out By Democracy Now, Democracy Now! The largest single displaced community is Syrians, with 4 million refugees forced outside Syria’s borders by the ongoing conflict. READ MORE» We Mexicans Welcome Muslims as the New Public Enemy Number One By Gustavo Arellano, The Guardian All that racist nonsense Donald Trump is pulling on you is the same thing he was doing to Mexicans in America a few months back. READ MORE» Why Ted Cruz Got 'Golden Grinch' Award from Senate Cafeteria Workers By Dave Johnson, Campaign for America's Future Senate cafeteria worker protests continue as Sen. Warren joins. READ MORE» AlterNet Comics: Keith Knight on Life's Little Victories By Keith Knight, AlterNet We all need these during the holidays. READ MORE»

Donald Trump Is Getting His Cues from Hitler? How the GOP Leader Is Following the Fuhrer's Recipe Steven Rosenfeld, AlterNet From bedside reading to the 2016 campaign trail. READ MORE» It's Official: The Middle Class Is Now Less Than Half of the Country Kali Holloway, AlterNet We've hit a new tipping point, say Pew Researchers. READ MORE» How the Bitter White Minority in the South Ended Up With Huge Power in Washington Paul Rosenberg, Salon Nixon's Silent Majority, neither silent nor a majority, runs Congress and propels Trump. How did this happen? READ MORE»

Right-Wing Wall St. Financiers Launch Big Money Attack on Clinton By Cady Zuvich, The Center for Public Integrity Super PAC ad funded by wealthy conservatives with ties to Marco Rubio, Jeb Bush. READ MORE» Noam Chomsky: How the West's Response to Paris Attacks Will Backfire By Noam Chomsky, The Real News Network Bombing begets more terror. READ MORE» A Brief History of Vagina Worship By Carrie Weisman, AlterNet The vagina has been seen as a symbol of strength and fertility—and sometimes punishment. READ MORE» Who's Buying ISIS' Oil? By Vijay Prashad, CounterPunch They have been making millions of dollars each day by selling oil from the Iraqi oil fields near Mosul. READ MORE» AlterNet Comics: Tom Tomorrow on Ridiculous Conservative 'Compassion' for Refugees By Tom Tomorrow, AlterNet How the right would handle the refugee issue. READ MORE» How to Spread the World's Wealth Beyond Corrupt Elites By Simon Reid-Henry, University of Chicago Press We need a new kind of politics that addresses how rich privilege is directly related to the plight of the poor. READ MORE» BUSTED: Trump-Loving Republican Lawmaker Caught Lying in Unhinged Rant About Obama’s Lies By Bethania Palma Markus, Raw Story DeLemus was one of the state lawmakers who fought to keep Obama’s name off state ballots because they believed he was a 'treasonous liar.' READ MORE» Is Ecstasy Really That Dangerous? All Your Questions Answered By Alex Wodak, Gideon Warhaft, The Guardian After two ecstasy deaths at the Stereosonic festivals, it’s imperative that we get our facts straight about the drug, or more young people will die. READ MORE»

Should We Really Be Treating San Bernardino Shootings Like They're the End of Civilization? Tom Engelhardt, Tom Dispatch If you want to be fearful of anything, don’t get into your vehicle, since that’s where 32,000 Americans die every year. READ MORE» COP21: International Rights of Nature Tribunal Finds Corporations, Governments Guilty of Crimes Against Nature Roberto Lovato, AlterNet Indigenous leaders want to expand the concept of human rights into a movement that will protect animals, rivers and forests. READ MORE» Donald Trump Is Polling Higher Than Ever Among Republicans Kali Holloway, AlterNet New surveys of Republican voters find his plan to ban Muslim immigration is striking a chord. READ MORE»

WATCH: Stephen Colbert Reveals Donald Trump's Real Strategy By Janet Allon, AlterNet Offend everyone except white people and have everyone on TV talk about it for days. READ MORE» Interactive Map Shows How Many People Have Been Shot Near You This Year By Adam Johnson, AlterNet The best way to internalize the scope of gun violence in America is to see its proximity to us. READ MORE» GunTV: New Shop at Home Television Network Will Offer All Guns, All the Time By Kali Holloway, AlterNet Because what we desperately need is easier access to more guns. READ MORE» Top New Hampshire Newspaper Shreds Ted Cruz’s 'Texas Tough Guy Act': 'Tough Talk Is All He Has to Offer' By Sophia Tesfaye, Salon New Hampshire Union-Leader editorial is unflinching in its rebuke of the Texas Senator. READ MORE» The Disturbing Racial Wealth Gap—and a Group That's Fighting It By Laura Flanders, AlterNet Between 2007 and 2013 net worth for white families rose from roughly 5 to roughly seven times greater than Black family worth. READ MORE» Menards Makes Managers Whose Staffers Unionize Pay in a Big Way By Kali Holloway, AlterNet The store slashes the salaries of those who oversee staff who exercise their right to unionize. READ MORE» Justice Scalia: Minority Students May Be Better Off Going to 'Lesser Schools' By Dan Roberts, The Guardian Conservative justices give sympathetic hearing in Fisher v. University of Texas. READ MORE» Watch a Bald Eagle Named Uncle Sam Attack Donald Trump During a Photoshoot By Jen Hayden, DailyKos Uncle Sam did not seem to like The Donald or his hair. READ MORE» Tenn. School Wins Right to Ban Gays and Women Who’ve Had Sex: ‘This Is Who We Are’ By David Edwards, Raw Story The waiver allows the school to ban LGBT students and anyone else who does not fit their religious ideology. READ MORE»

WATCH: Larry Wilmore to 'Donald J. A**hole': Even Dick Cheney Says You're Too Extreme Janet Allon, AlterNet "If Cheney's against you, you've gone too far," said the host of The Nightly Show. READ MORE» Perhaps the Most Hilarious Holiday PSA You'll Ever See: 73-Year-Old Snorting Coke at Traffic Stop Phillip Smith, AlterNet Funny stuff from the Seattle Police Department. READ MORE» AlterNet Comics: Keith Knight on the Mass Shooting Reaction We'll Never Hear Again Keith Knight, AlterNet At this rate, mass shootings won't come as a surprise. READ MORE»

Why $yria Is Crucial for the Energy Future of the Mideast By Pepe Escobar, CounterPunch Syria goes way beyond a civil war — it’s a vicious 'Pipelinestan' power play. READ MORE» Fascism Is All the Rage in Europe, and It’s Coming to America By Sean Illing, Salon Neo-fascism is on the rise in Europe, and there are echoes of it in Donald Trump's increasingly dangerous rhetoric. READ MORE» Fox News Tells Young Children to Run at Active Shooters By Timothy Johnson, Media Matters According to experts, people should evacuate or hide and only confront an active shooter as "a last resort." READ MORE» Harry Reid Slams GOP for Cultivating the Racism That Is Fueling Trump’s Xenophobic Campaign By Sophia Tesfaye, Salon ‘Donald Trump is standing on a platform of hate that the Republican Party built for him,’ the Senate minority leader tweeted. READ MORE» Texas Police Chief Asks Every Resident to Buy Guns to Protect Against Muslims and ‘Potentate’ Obama By David Edwards, Raw Story He predicted that law enforcement officers would one day need to be saved by 'a group of my citizens.' READ MORE» ‘Airpocalypse’: Beijing Issues First Ever Red Alert as Smog Reaches Deadly Levels By Elena Ugrin, The Watchers Record-breaking smog levels — 40 times of what the World Health Organizations considers safe — has engulfed the Chinese capital. READ MORE» Smith & Wesson Gun Sales Soar After Spate of Mass Shootings in U.S. By Sam Thielman, The Guardian The firearms giants saw gun sales rise more than 15% to $125 million in the past three months. READ MORE» Send a Holiday Message to a Prison Rape Survivor By AlterNet Staff, AlterNet Just a few uplifting words can have a huge impact. READ MORE»