| Oct 29, 2014 | Rights / DemocracyMy brother would have turned 29 the other day. Thus begins the season of difficult anniversaries. Six years ago, my baby bro turned 23. It was 2008, a week before Barack Obama’s first presidential election. Hope and change were in the air. I had a new job and a...
| | Rights / DemocracyRepublican operative Grover Norquist used to quip about shrinking government to the point where it would get small enough to drown in the bathtub. You probably thought he was kidding. His joke could be on us all soon enough. Pollsters say the Republican Party is...
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| Oct 28, 2014 | Rights / DemocracyWhen five Supreme Court justices decreed that corporations are entitled to full free speech rights in our elections and that corporate money is a form of speech that can’t be restricted, they produced a nightmare tsunami of corporate cash that is now drowning...
| Oct 22, 2014 | Roundup|UncategorizedThis week in OtherWords, Jill Richardson suggests that the amount of sugar Americans eat is way scarier than the slim chance they’ll get Ebola while I ask whether Halloween chocolate is too cheap. Do you want to make sure you don’t miss the latest from...
