| Aug 22, 2011 | Roundup|UncategorizedIn this week’s OtherWords editorial package, Ann Mesnikoff hails the government’s plans to strengthen fuel-efficiency standards and Jim Hightower laments a “loopy crusade” against energy-efficient light bulbs. Get all this and more in your...
| | Environment / HealthAmericans use a lot of oil every day: nearly 20 million barrels — or, if you prefer, 840 million gallons. About 9 million of these barrels go toward feeding our cars and trucks every day. What’s more, paying for all of this oil drains as much as $1 billion...
| | Economy / BusinessDid you breathe a sigh of relief when President Barack Obama signed the debt deal into law earlier this month? If not, you weren’t the only one. Raising the national debt ceiling may have forestalled an immediate U.S. default and credit collapse, but the deal...
| | Environment / HealthWhile it might seem rare these days for Republicans and Democrats to work together on anything, two Republican members of the House of Representatives recently joined with one of their colleagues in the Democratic Party to introduce an important new piece of renewable...
| | Rights / DemocracyMost Americans, riveted by reports about the manufactured crisis surrounding the debt ceiling, assumed that we “dodged the bullet” when Congress finally authorized the U.S. Treasury to pay its bills. The sad, tragic truth for our nation’s economy and...
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