This Week in OtherWords: August 6, 2014

This Week in OtherWords: August 6, 2014

This week in OtherWords, Marjorie E. Wood weighs in on the unpredictable schedules Wal-Mart gives its workers, William A. Collins and I explain why Wall Street often tanks on good economic news, and Jill Richardson highlights the holes in supposedly feminist shampoo...
Billionaire Koch Heads Pony Up for the GOP

Billionaire Koch Heads Pony Up for the GOP

The Koch brothers — the GOP megadonors and fossil fuel magnates — live in their own special world, enshrouded in the fumes emanating from their family’s enormous stockpiles of wealth. Charles and David Koch have always felt very special, and they expect those of...
This Week in OtherWords: July 30, 2014

This Week in OtherWords: July 30, 2014

This week in OtherWords, Phyllis Bennis weighs in on the carnage in Gaza and Peter Hart rebuts a common conservative storyline by showing how President Obama hasn’t retreated from using military force. Do you want to make sure you don’t miss the latest from...
Astoundingly Legal Corporate Tax Thievery

Astoundingly Legal Corporate Tax Thievery

Did you scramble to get your taxes done this year at the last minute? Yeah, me too. I really didn’t mind paying what I owe — but I hate having to pay the taxes owed by the likes of JPMorgan Chase, ExxonMobil, and Amazon. They’re just a few of the...
This Week in OtherWords: July 23, 2014

This Week in OtherWords: July 23, 2014

This week in OtherWords, Mitchell Zimmerman looks at how U.S. policies stoked the Central American violence that’s sending thousands of children across the border in search of refuge and I explain why Hillary Clinton’s Honduran blunders should curb her...