These Rhinos Need Their Own Guns

These Rhinos Need Their Own Guns

Have you ever heard of the rabbit hunter’s nightmare?A guy dreams that he and a few of his buddies have fanned out across some brushland to scare-up and shoot a few hares. They kill a couple, but then, one of the hunting buddies who’d headed down a slope...
Reading between the Links

Reading between the Links

As an aspiring writer and avid reader, I never miss the annual Library of Congress National Book Festival on the National Mall. This year, the best part was seeing one of my favorite authors, Margaret Atwood. Atwood, author of The Blind Assassin, The Handmaid’s...
This Week in OtherWords: November 6, 2013

This Week in OtherWords: November 6, 2013

This week in OtherWords, Sam Pizzigati, William A. Collins, and I point out that this is no time to slash the food stamp program and Jill Richardson explains how a gusher of corporate cash appears to have killed a food-labeling initiative in Washington State. Donald...
A Reason to Party Like It’s 1989

A Reason to Party Like It’s 1989

These days, you can get the feeling the Cold War never ended. Le CarrĂ©-style intrigue has, it turns out, barely skipped a beat. The 9/11 attacks injected the U.S. spymaster apparatus with steroids. But 23 years ago this week, the Cold War did end. I don’t...