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Chicken Disneyland
McDonald’s made headlines recently by announcing it will transition to cage-free eggs by 2025. Hooray: You can feel better about eating that Egg McMuffin. Or at least you can a decade from now. Less than 1 percent of the fast food giant's eggs currently come from...
Chicago’s Taxpayer-Funded Ode to Robber Barons
History, as the old adage goes, is written by the winners. Even though many "winners" are losers as human beings. For a clear example of this irony, check out the new national monument to corporate greed created by our Park Service in Chicago. It's on the site of what...
The Debate Dividing the GOP
The Go-to Guy for Corporate Moochers
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker says he should be America's next president because he's a proven budget whacker. And yes, by golly, he’s dressed down teachers, slashed funding for higher education, busted unions, and gone after welfare recipients. He's the Koch...
In OtherWords: September 9, 2015
This week in OtherWords, Donald Kaul summons a Guys and Dolls scene to explain the stock market’s oscillations and John Kiriakou relays what happened when he accidentally drank beer with Elon Musk. Do you want to make sure you don’t miss the latest from OtherWords?...
White Supremacy Is Alive and All Too Well
A New York Times obituary for Julian Bond, the civil rights icon who passed away this August, described the late leader as a “persistent opponent of the stubborn remnants of white supremacy.” Remnants? Hardly. Notwithstanding the hard-won gains of the 1960s, race...
Georgia’s Educational Neglect
I worked as a substitute teacher in a Newton, Massachusetts middle school a few months ago. I taught a wide range of kids, including some with behavior-related disabilities. A few of these children needed in-class aides and extra academic support, but they met their...
Who in Their Right Mind?
My immediate reaction to James Holmes’s 2012 shooting rampage at an Aurora, Colorado movie theater was twofold: horror and incomprehension. Who in their right mind could do such a thing? Who in their "right mind," indeed. This summer, a jury found Holmes guilty of...
The Only Game in Town
The stock market is down. It must be some crazy thing China has done. Those Communist countries just don’t understand how capitalism works. No, wait! The market just went up. Did China fix its capital markets already? Not really. More likely it’s that our Federal...
Hurricane Francis
Battles are raging over whether local government officials have a religious right to refuse to marry same-sex couples. And the federal government may shut down over a dispute concerning funding for Planned Parenthood’s non-abortion reproductive health services. As if...
