This Week in OtherWords: November 27, 2013

This Week in OtherWords: November 27, 2013

This week in OtherWords, Marge Baker explains why Harry Reid took the “nuclear option,” Jim Hightower weighs in on the Canton, Ohio Walmart’s food drive for its own low-paid workers, and Tiffany Williams praises the new film Sunlight Jr. for its...
The Fight for Control over Our Own Dinner Tables

The Fight for Control over Our Own Dinner Tables

Nicholas Kristof, a New York Times columnist and former farm boy, once wrote: “[T]he central problem with modern industrial agriculture… [is] not just that it produces unhealthy food, mishandles waste, and overuses antibiotics in ways that harm us all....
This Week in OtherWords: November 20, 2013

This Week in OtherWords: November 20, 2013

This week in OtherWords, Jill Richardson talks turkey, William A. Collins and I call for a new economy, and Marc Morial asks whether we’re becoming a nation of bullies. Be sure to check our blog, especially on Tuesdays. That’s when we run a bonus...
This Week in OtherWords: November 20, 2013

Genetic Engineering Lies Prevail Again

If you doubt that big money and lies can pervert elections, look at Initiative 522 in Washington State. A grassroots coalition of consumers, organic producers, environmentalists, and others who want honesty in food labeling put it on the ballot. They lost. The measure...
This Week in OtherWords: November 13, 2013

This Week in OtherWords: November 13, 2013

This week in OtherWords, Peter Hart debunks the myth of a “grand bargain” that requires Social Security benefit cuts, Jim Hightower points out that taxpayers shouldn’t help JPMorgan Chase cover the cost of its $13 billion in fines, and Jill...