| Nov 28, 2012 | Roundup|UncategorizedThis week, OtherWords is running three commentaries that highlight electoral milestones: African-American turnout reached record levels, marijuana-legalization ballot initiatives passed in Washington State and Colorado, and voters in a small Ohio town approved a...
| | Economy / BusinessWhile America’s CEOs are fretting about the government’s so-called “fiscal cliff,” millions of American workers face a financial disaster that gets much less media attention. There’s a half-trillion-dollar deficit in the nation’s...
| | Rights / DemocracyIn 2008, for the first time in our history, African Americans voted at the same rate as white voters. We spent the next four years hearing that that high turnout was a fluke. “Experts” told us we would lose our enthusiasm. We’d be daunted by new...
| | Peace / SecurityAfter four decades and billions of dollars in spending, the U.S.-led “War on Drugs” has failed. Initially, this war’s architects aimed to curb drug use at home and stem production abroad. Their strategy has achieved few gains on either end. Today, an...
| | Economy / BusinessOur contemporary billionaires, most Americans would agree, are exploiting our labor and polluting our politics. Can we shrink our super rich down to a less powerful — and more democratic — size? Of course we can. We Americans, after all, have already done...
