| Oct 18, 2023 | Economy / Business|HP SubfeaturedMy contact lenses are crazy expensive. So when I’m about to run out, I do some comparison shopping to get the best deal on an online order. Like any normal consumer, I click first on the lowest price. When I did that recently, I got an offer for $135.98 for a...
| | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracySeemingly intractable problems sometimes have an obvious solution standing right in front of them. Our nation’s dire shortage of long-haul truck drivers, for example. Wrangling big rigs across the country is difficult and dangerous work, and the corporate giants that...
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| Oct 11, 2023 | RoundupThis week in OtherWords, we’ve got two more strong pieces on the structural causes of poverty to complement our issue from last week. First, Amy Adams riffs on Jason Aldean’s controversial country song, “Try That in a Small Town.” It’s...
| | HP SubfeaturedOver time, words with beautiful meanings occasionally get degraded into ugliness. “Gentle,” for example. Originally meaning good natured and kindly, it was twisted into “gentry” in the Middle Ages by very un-gentle land barons seeking a patina of refinement. Then it...
