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Making the World Safe for Trust Fund Babies
Real wages have stagnated for decades. Homeownership rates are down. College debt is weighing down young people entering the workforce. Millions of low-wage workers eke by on a minimum wage of $7.25 an hour. As the American Dream slips away for millions of people in...
A Prickly Question
California's harsh new measure to deal with long-term drought is making waves. Residents caught wasting by washing sidewalks with their garden hose and committing similar reckless acts are incurring fines of up to $500. Is that fair? Or will the fine be perceived as...
Hard Times Too Pervasive for Republicans to Ignore
Must formerly rich people shed all their status symbols? It's a widely held presumption, Darlena Cunha explained. "I had so internalized the message of what poor people should or should not have that I felt ashamed to be there, with that car," she wrote in a...
Perry Imperils His Own Roadshow
Gosh, the 2016 primaries are a long way off, but look out: Here comes Texas Governor Rick Perry — riding his state's taxpayer dollars into another GOP presidential bid. Technically, he's not campaigning. Yet he's popping up from New York to California, holding press...
Take Your Loot with You
Astoundingly Legal Corporate Tax Thievery
Did you scramble to get your taxes done this year at the last minute? Yeah, me too. I really didn't mind paying what I owe — but I hate having to pay the taxes owed by the likes of JPMorgan Chase, ExxonMobil, and Amazon. They're just a few of the astonishingly...
This Week in OtherWords: July 23, 2014
This week in OtherWords, Mitchell Zimmerman looks at how U.S. policies stoked the Central American violence that's sending thousands of children across the border in search of refuge and I explain why Hillary Clinton's Honduran blunders should curb her unbeatability...
Running for Their Lives: The Child Migrant Crisis
As the Department of Homeland Security tries to deliver busloads of Central American children and families to places of temporary safety, shrieking demonstrators in California, Arizona, and other states are barring the way and demanding these kids be dumped over the...
Not Much Better than Bush
President Barack Obama got it right when he declared: "There's no military solution inside of Iraq, certainly not one that is led by the United States." But his Iraq track record doesn't mark much of an improvement over the mess his predecessor made. The June takeover...
Sick Pig Problems
A pound of bacon now costs more than $6. That's a record increase from $3.86 a pound four years ago. What's driving this spike? Blame Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea virus. The disease, known as PEDv, is rattling the pork industry after claiming over 10 percent of the U.S....
