| Jan 31, 2011 | Rights / DemocracyThe New York Times recently named Trish Hall its next op-ed editor. She’s going to call the shots regarding who gets a guest spot in the nation’s premiere opinion pages, which typically feature brilliantly written, sharply argued, and perfectly edited...
| | Roundup|UncategorizedIn this week’s OtherWords editorial package, Jim Hightower highlights a mountaintop removal mining breakthrough and Donald Kaul reviews GOP proposals for slashing federal spending. Get all this and more in your inbox by subscribing to our weekly newsletter. If...
| Jan 26, 2011 | Rights / DemocracyThe good news for President Barack Obama is that his one joke in an otherwise dead-serious 2011 State of the Union address elicited a chuckle from the assembled lawmakers in the chamber and sent ripples of humorous asides through the blogosphere. In case you missed...
| Jan 24, 2011 | Roundup|UncategorizedIn this week’s OtherWords editorial package, Marian Wright Edelman underscores the importance of preserving last year’s landmark health care reform and Dave Saldana warns about Comcast’s potential to “throttle competition and stifle...
| Jan 18, 2011 | Rights / DemocracyPerhaps by now we are accustomed to the annual right-wing co-opting of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s legacy. Over at FPIF, Mark Engler offers an instructive example from the Pentagon. He quotes DoD’s general counsel Jeh C. Johnson: “I believe that if Dr....
