| Jun 11, 2014 | Roundup|UncategorizedThis week in OtherWords, Jim Hightower marvels at a British hedge fund titan’s luxury chicken coop and Jill Richardson praises the EU’s robust regulations for keeping its food safer to eat than ours. Do you want to make sure you don’t miss the latest from...
| | Environment / HealthU.S. and EU negotiators recently began a new round of negotiations on the Transatlantic Free Trade Agreement. Because the talks are happening behind closed doors, the public is left largely in the dark about the nature of the discussions over a deal also known as the...
| | Rights / DemocracyLast year, the Supreme Court decimated one of the civil rights movement’s crowning achievements. Now, it’s time for Congress to pick up the pieces, put it back together and make our laws strong enough to protect our most important right: our vote. Many...
| | Peace / SecurityPresident Barack Obama’s recent attempt to define foreign policy failed to accurately reflect how Washington intends to end one of the biggest quagmires of our time: Afghanistan. “You are the first class to graduate since 9/11 who may not be sent into...
| | Food / FarmingUpper-class, über-rich Brits pay a price. In exchange for being blessed with wealth and social standing, they’re expected to be at least slightly amusing to the general public, offering some combination of doofus, daffy, and scandalous. Crispin Odey fits this...
