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Close Loopholes, Fix Potholes
America has an infrastructure crisis. We see signs of it every day: We hit bone-jarring potholes as we drive. We face long detours as bridges are closed for emergency repairs. When water mains break, businesses must temporarily close and homeowners have to boil their...
Backsliding on Educational Equality
I believe that landmark Supreme Court rulings like Brown v. Board of Education gave me a better chance to get a great education and to reach my potential. And I am very thankful for everything Civil Rights leaders accomplished — big and small. Their struggle made it...
Happy Times in Hedge Fund America
Pharrell Williams should be happy. The singer has had the world's hottest pop single over the past six months. His Happy has been topping the charts everywhere, from the United States to Bulgaria. If this bouncy ditty keeps selling, Williams might even end 2014 as...
Wonderfully Deceptive Superfood Marketing
The new comedy show Last Week Tonight with John Oliver included a well-deserved riff on the food industry in its first episode. Oliver, who you might know from his work on Comedy Central's fake news program, The Daily Show, went after two well-deserved targets: Pom...
Rowing Hard against the Tide Can’t Get You There from Here
How did your state mark the 40th anniversary of the Supreme Court's ruling that gave women the right to keep Big Government out of their uteruses? If you live in North Dakota, your lawmakers banned abortion at six weeks — earlier than many pregnancies are detected....
Psssst, Wanna Buy My Corporation?
Where's Charles Dickens when we need him? The novelist, who laid bare the shame of gross income inequality in 19th century England, came up with some perfect names for his more despicable characters, including Scrooge, Mr. Tulkinghorn, and Miss Havisham. So I'm...
Navigating Back to Segregation
Fashion-Minded Men Hop Aboard Yummy Train
Attention, men. Yes, you people with Y chromosomes — it's time for some man-talk. Specifically, we need to address how you dress. First, the good news: At long last, the "metrosexual" look, style, demeanor, and even the idea of the metrosexual man are dead. I know...
This Week in OtherWords: May 7, 2014
This week in OtherWords, Steve Cobble explains why the GOP's prospects aren't as bright as they may appear and Alex Xourias discusses the growing resegregation of America's public schools. Do you want to make sure you don’t miss the latest from OtherWords?...
Hyping the GOP’s Prospects in 2014
Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus is forecasting a "tsunami" victory for his party in the 2014 midterm elections. Democrats are despairing over election-forecasting whiz kid Nate Silver's projections, which indicate that the GOP may gain six Senate...
