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Fiorina’s Dubious Cheerleader
You know your presidential campaign is in a heap of hurt when you need Tom Perkins to defend your "abilities, intellect, and talent." But there Perkins was in The New York Times recently, having bought a full-page ad attesting to the presidential worthiness of Carly...
Have Your Coke and Guzzle It Too
Good news about obesity: A new scientific organization is coming to grips with this bulging national problem. Called the Global Energy Balance Network, it comes at obesity from a unique perspective. According to them, the key to controlling one's weight isn’t cutting...
In OtherWords: A Labor Day Special Edition
This week in OtherWords, we’re running a Labor Day special edition in which Sarita Gupta writes about the labor movement’s efforts to make employee schedules more consistent and Donald Kaul weighs in on Donald Trump’s passion for pitting workers against each other....
Making America Work for Working People
For millions of working parents like me, the juggling act between our homes and offices gets even more frantic as our kids head back to school. My daughter just started kindergarten. Some days, I’m proud of how my husband and I manage the demands of our jobs while...
When Unions and Civil Rights Activists Worked Together
Rick Smith hosts a daily radio talk show based in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, which bills itself as the place "where working people come to talk." Smith makes it his business to know the pulse of the labor movement. But he admits to one area where his knowledge was...
Pensions Powered by Climate Change
If I had $17 million in savings, I’d take advantage of that financial security and retire early. That’s the average total retirement assets of chief executives at the top 30 U.S. oil, natural gas, and coal companies, according to a recent report by the Institute for...
All Working People Should Support the Iran Deal
This Labor Day, like others before it, finds American workers squeezed on many fronts. Inequality is rising, union membership is dwindling, and wages aren’t keeping up with job growth. Naturally, addressing all those challenges is a huge priority for the labor...
Creating a Constituency for the News
There’s a crisis in journalism. Rapidly changing consumer habits have slashed demand for the print editions of newspapers and magazines, squeezed advertising dollars, and made thousands of media jobs vanish. The news industry’s downturn has created another crisis:...
Greening America’s Energy Workforce
Oil permeates the whole economy. Even if you telework in a solar-powered home and tote your groceries home by bicycle, the price of petroleum affects what you spend on goods and services. This impact, of course, is uneven. The collapse from $105 per barrel last summer...
Trump’s No Outlier
There are those who would have you believe that Donald Trump is an aberration among Republican presidential contenders — the black sheep uncle who shows up half-drunk at family gatherings, insults the guests, scandalizes the women, and otherwise brings dishonor to the...
