The Lineup: Week of February 28-March 6, 2011

In this week’s OtherWords editorial package, Tracy Fernandez Rysavy underscores concerns about radiation from cell phones, Donald Kaul weighs in on Wisconsin’s uprising, and Mary Anne Hitt puts the GOP attack on EPA funding in context. Get all this and...
Pay Up, Corporate Tax Dodgers

Pay Up, Corporate Tax Dodgers

Instead of cutting state and federal budgets, the United States should crack down on the corporate tax dodgers thumbing their noses at us. Across the nation, states are making deep cuts that will wreck the quality of life for everyone to close budget gaps that total...

Reducing Cell-Phone Radiation Risks

Are cell phones having an impact on our brains? The answer just got a little clearer when a February study in the Journal of the American Medical Association asserted unequivocally that, yes, cell phones change brain activity. “This study shows that the human...

More U.S. Aid Won’t End Mexico’s Drug War

With all the astoundingly grisly incidents involving Mexico’s armed forces these days, one thing is clear: the drug war is failing. The Mexican military shouldn’t get another penny of U.S. military aid. However, the White House’s new budget proposal...

An Unprecedented Attack from Polluters

As a new mother, it breaks my heart when I hear stories from parents who are struggling with their kids’ health problems. I know parents who live in fear of their child’s next asthma attack. Some can’t even let their kids play outside when local air...