| Jul 27, 2016 | Roundup|UncategorizedIt’s officially general election season now that the two major parties have nominated their candidates for the 2016 presidential race. This week in OtherWords, our tax expert Josh Hoxie digs into the Republican convention and finds… not much to talk about....
| | Economy / BusinessIt was easy to get caught up in the circus that was the Republican National Convention. Rousing speeches (plagiarized and original) and raucous floor votes make for great television and funny internet memes. Unfortunately, as we’ve come to expect from events organized...
| | Rights / DemocracyIt’s increasingly easy to believe that our country is irreconcilably divided. But that’s not quite the America that Michael Morrill saw from his perch in Reading, Pennsylvania the weekend before the Republican convention in Cleveland. Morrill, the...
| | Economy / BusinessThe debates leading up to the election this year will no doubt invoke the “American value” of capitalism. But what, exactly, does that mean? And what should it mean? I’m no economist, but I took a few economics courses while earning an undergraduate...
| | Rights / DemocracyWhat if organizers and volunteers joined forces to run a nationwide campaign to replace today’s corporate-owned congress — all at once? Yes, one sweeping campaign against all incumbents of either party who owe their jobs to Big Money. A new campaign called Brand New...
