The Bottled Water Backlash
By Michael Blanding, AlterNet
The bottled water industry is on the defensive as restaurant owners and cities are canceling their bottled water contracts and advocating for tap. Read more »

Why Giuliani Is the Scariest Possible Candidate
By Steve Benen
Giuliani's foreign policy team is made up of "all the guys who were too nuts or too extreme to make the cut with George W. Bush." Read more »

Americans Have Become 'Good Germans'
By Frank Rich, The New York Times
"Bush lies" doesn't cut it anymore. It's time to confront the darker reality that we are lying to ourselves. Read more »

Bush Has the Nerve to Say He Found Inner Peace on Iraq
By Mark Danner, The New York Review of Books and TomDispatch
A recently published memo reveals the arrogance Bush employs toward diplomacy. Read more »

Crack Users Do More Time Than People Convicted of Manslaughter
By Jessica Pupovac, AlterNet
When crack cocaine possession means 24 years in prison and manslaughter means only 3, you know something is seriously wrong with the U.S. criminal justice system. Read more »

Breaking the Taboo: Why We Took On the Israel Lobby
By Eric Chinski, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt explain in this interview why they decided to speak out against the close relationship between the U.S. and Israel. Read more »

What Was Behind the Honey Bee Wipeout?
By Gina Covina, Terrain
Everyone has a theory why the honeybees started dying off. Try malnutrition. Read more »

Four Sports Scandals That Gave Bush Cover
By Robert Lipsyte, Tomdispatch.com
... and a fifth scandal that should end his presidency. Read more »

Gun Love in America Is Strong as Ever
By Paul Harris, The Observer UK
Despite the spiraling rise in the daily number of shootings in the US, gun culture has only become stronger. Read more »

How to Address Obesity in a Fat-Phobic Society
By Courtney E. Martin, AlterNet
It's time to stop treating obesity as the problem of a lazy individual. Read more »