Look Out, BP’s Doing It Again!

Okay people, nature needs us to focus. All of us who love polar bears, whales, seabirds, and other wildlife should put our minds together to send an urgent telepathic message to the animals in the Beaufort Sea north of Alaska. Our message is blunt: Flee! As fast as...

Put Your Money on Climate Change

Carbon footprintWas my pride,Then it washed outOn the tide. Al Gore did his best. So did the nation’s environmental community. They convinced a majority of Americans that climate change was both real and serious. Back then small cars enjoyed a spurt, curly light...

Raking it in at Walmart

Chicago alderman Ed Smith tried to fight plans for Walmart to open a new store in his city by illustrating that its CEO Michael Duke’s $35 million annual compensation, “when converted to an hourly wage, worked out to $16,826.92,” ABC News reported....

The Lineup: Week of July 5-12, 2010

Here’s what you’ll find in the latest OtherWords editorial package, which features a Donald Kaul column and Khalil Bendib cartoon on the futility of the Afghanistan War and an op-ed about the “passion investments” of the how the ultra-rich....