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The Disney-fication of Our National Parks
It’s summer vacation time and gasoline is quasi-cheap. So why not pile the family into the mini-van and pay a visit to the historic Budweiser Statue of Liberty, or motor out west in your Camry to Toyota’s Yellowstone National Park? That's right, our thoroughly...
Trump’s Bunker
In OtherWords: July 27, 2016
It's officially general election season now that the two major parties have nominated their candidates for the 2016 presidential race. This week in OtherWords, our tax expert Josh Hoxie digs into the Republican convention and finds... not much to talk about. But taken...
Trump’s Trickle-Down Ticket
It was easy to get caught up in the circus that was the Republican National Convention. Rousing speeches (plagiarized and original) and raucous floor votes make for great television and funny internet memes. Unfortunately, as we’ve come to expect from events organized...
It Doesn’t Have to Be ‘Us’ vs. ‘Them’
It's increasingly easy to believe that our country is irreconcilably divided. But that's not quite the America that Michael Morrill saw from his perch in Reading, Pennsylvania the weekend before the Republican convention in Cleveland. Morrill, the executive director...
There’s No Such Thing as a ‘Free Market’
The debates leading up to the election this year will no doubt invoke the "American value" of capitalism. But what, exactly, does that mean? And what should it mean? I'm no economist, but I took a few economics courses while earning an undergraduate business degree....
Populism Even Republicans Can Get Behind
What if organizers and volunteers joined forces to run a nationwide campaign to replace today’s corporate-owned congress — all at once? Yes, one sweeping campaign against all incumbents of either party who owe their jobs to Big Money. A new campaign called Brand New...
Nose Holding Time
In OtherWords: July 20, 2016
This week, Donald Trump officially accepts the Republican Party's nomination for president. The party's convention in Cleveland has produced a batch of headlines that, like a lot of general election news these days, seems likely to inspire a spike in Google searches...
I Can’t Watch Another Police Killing
Philando Castile and Alton Sterling became the latest black Americans to turn into Twitter hashtags when videos of their deaths at the hands of police circulated on social media. But I couldn't bring myself to watch them. I still remember the helpless frustration I...
