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Where Are the Populist Democrats?
It's futile to hope that the GOP's gaggle of corporate-hugging, right-wing presidential candidates will seriously address the issue of rising inequality in our land. How about the Democrats? Well, Hillary Clinton has warned that "extreme inequality has corrupted other...
PETA’s Cruel and Unusual Crush
The provocative animal rights group PETA famously despises cages. Press statements from the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals have described birdcages as a "death sentence" for avian pets, likened crating dogs to incarcerating them, and condemned the cruelty...
Fossil Fuel Extinction
The Hairball That Gagged a Fracker
Imagine a political campaign against environmentalists that's so negative, so ridiculously slanted and downright dirty, that it actually repulsed executives of some of America's biggest fracking corporations. It's got to take a big wad of ugly to gag a fracker. But in...
In OtherWords: April 15, 2015
This week in OtherWords, Donald Kaul weighs in on Hillary Clinton's White House bid and Mary Alice Crim explains why the latest Comcast merger would be bad for everyone, especially communities of color. Do you want to make sure you don’t miss the latest from...
Did Slaves Catch Your Seafood?
A few years ago, a friend promised Asorasak Thama a job in the Thai fishing industry. The job offered good pay for a few weeks of work. Instead, he wound up trapped at sea for a year, working in terrible conditions for no pay at all. Thama had become a slave....
Don’t Let This Cable Giant Stamp Out Democracy
Comcast’s gleaming tower soars over its hometown of Philadelphia. The cable giant’s presence in the city is palpable. You’d like to believe that the company would have a sense of what’s going on in its backyard — and what its neighbors need. But Comcast isn’t paying...
Wine over Brine
My home near Seneca Lake in New York is famous for a lot of things — good wine, fine food, and the Finger Lakes region’s beautiful scenery. Now, though, Crestwood Midstream — a Houston-based company that drills, stores, and distributes fracked natural gas — wants to...
The Road to Ruin
That harsh whine you hear in the background — like a buzzsaw getting ready for a log to come down the chute — is the vast right-wing conspiracy revving its engines. America Rising, an opposition research Super PAC that lives to trash the Clintons, dashed off a press...
Odd Bedfellows, Lying Together
Come one, come all. Step right up and buy your ticket for a ride on the splendiferous, phantasmagoric, and miraculous Trans-Pacific Partnership! The TPP isn’t some sort of futuristic flying machine. It’s just another global trade scam coming at us like a volcanic...
