Archive
North Carolina’s Moral Freedom Summer
The Moral Monday movement is mobilizing again. This feisty coalition, based in North Carolina, is an inspiring model of workaday people coming together to reclaim their rights from far-right-wing politicians and plutocrats running amok. Led by the NAACP, tens of...
The Kochs Pay a Former Senator to Keep Money in Politics
The beauty of our country's present system of government is that anyone is perfectly free to buy a member of Congress. Isn't that what democracy is all about? Take the Koch brothers. Of course, these multibillionaire industrialists prefer to buy everything in bulk,...
This Week in OtherWords: July 9, 2014
This week in OtherWords, Tracy Fernandez Rysavy explains why Dominion's plans to export natural gas from Cove Point, Maryland would be a fracking boondoggle and Jim Hightower skewers Walgreen's corporate bosses for writing a sick prescription. Do you want to make sure...
A Fracking Boondoggle
A few years ago, Tammy Manning and her family moved to Franklin Forks, Pennsylvania, 10 miles from the New York state border. Unbeknownst to her, energy companies had started ramping up natural gas drilling operations near her home. When WPX Energy opened up two...
Safeguarding Free Speech in the Digital Age
Representative Spencer Bachus stands out among conservatives. Representing Alabama's 6th district, he's built his political reputation as a supporter of fiscal responsibility, limited government and constitutional rights — with special attention to the First and...
Keeping Up with the Transit Turnaround
Residents of Lawrence, Massachusetts — a city of more than 77,000 people 30 miles north of Boston — can finally do something that many people take for granted: ride a bus downtown. As the Eagle-Tribune in the nearby town of North Andover reported, before July 1 you...
Extreme Nutrition
To most people, "bonking" implies an R-rated activity. To marathon runners, cyclists, and other endurance athletes, it's something else entirely. In sports jargon, someone who "bonks" suffers severe fatigue after running out of their stored energy. People who...
Walgreen Writes its Own Sick Prescription
How would you react if one of your neighbors announced that while he obviously benefits from having clean water, highways, Medicare, police protection, parks, schools, and other public services, he was no longer going to pay his share of the taxes that make them...
A Deluded Consensus on Discrimination
A wide majority of U.S. voters say black Americans who can't get ahead should blame themselves for their troubles instead of racial discrimination. That's one of the more startling findings from a recent Pew Research Center effort to bunch voters into categories of...
The State of Runaway CEO Pay Resistance
Fed up with the do-nothing Congress, people around the country are no longer waiting for Washington to lead on some of the most pressing economic fairness issues of our time. Take the minimum wage debate. States and cities are rising above the partisan swamp in the...
