Stalling the Incomplete Recovery

Stalling the Incomplete Recovery

How do you gauge the impact of depriving 12,000 low-income California preschoolers of the opportunity to participate in the Head Start program because of budgetary gridlock? Or stripping more than half a million people living in poverty of their access to the highly...
This Week in OtherWords: February 27, 2013

This Week in OtherWords: February 27, 2013

This week in OtherWords, Jo Comerford likens the imminent across-the-board budget cuts to a truck careening toward a brick wall and Jill Richardson explains what’s wrong with an ingredient found in most liquid soaps that Americans use. Below you’ll find...
A Global Spotlight on Voter Suppression

A Global Spotlight on Voter Suppression

Just before his death this past Thanksgiving, my friend Lawrence Guyot whispered one last assignment: We must “internationalize” the struggle over the right to vote. Decades ago, our movement to end segregation and extend the full rights of citizenship to...
This Week in OtherWords: February 27, 2013

We’ve Got to Get Out of That Place

The U.S. war in Afghanistan is beginning to wind down. As President Barack Obama promised in his State of the Union address, half of the U.S. troops there will return home by this time next year. But many details remain hazy. For instance, what will happen with the...