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Wall Street’s Bonus Inflation
Not too many years ago, any news story about bonus money would've been about some 20-year-old baseball player — an up-and-coming superstar getting $100,000 or so on top of his salary as an extra incentive to join the Yankees, Giants, or whatever team. Sportswriters...
Washington Gives Peace a Chance
It's hard to get your mind wrapped around Russia's annexation of Crimea and seizure of Ukrainian military bases there. It was — and many Ukrainians say still is — part of a neighboring sovereign country until mid-March. And it seemed like Europe had transcended that...
Leave No War Behind
Turning Professors into Martyrs
Margaret Mary Vojtko died last summer at age 83. Her death has turned her name into an emotional rallying cry for adjunct college teachers who are seeking justice from their schools. You see, Vojtko taught French classes for 25 years at Duquesne University in...
This Week in OtherWords: March 19, 2014
This week in OtherWords, Dana Brown explains why she'd like to see Washington ditch the Cuban embargo and Richard Kirsch says that Republicans aren't going to win the 2014 mid-term elections by harping endlessly about the Affordable Care Act. Do you want to make sure...
Highway Robbery
No matter how hard lawmakers try to close their eyes, click their heels, and hope for the best, they can't make highway funding magically appear. But that doesn't stop them fiddling and flailing as they burn through the Highway Trust Fund. The Highway Trust Fund was...
Republicans Can’t Win by Attacking Health Care in 2014
For me, the fact that Republicans keep using the Affordable Care Act – Obamacare – as a political football is a tragedy. Sure, the law has problems, but it is already saving lives and improving the health of millions of Americans. Thankfully, it seems that Republicans...
55 Years Is Enough
Dressed in a blazer, sweater, and gloves to protect him from the cold of a DC winter, petite 79-year old Reverend Raul Suarez loves to tell his story. The Reverend asked us to stand up and stretch our hands out towards him, as he stretched his hands out towards us....
Should Great Cities Roll Out the Welcome Mat for Great Fortunes?
New York has a new mayor who wants to remake his deeply unequal city into much more than a playground for the super-rich. The experts who track global wealth trends think he'll fail. A recent report from Knight Frank, a global consultancy firm, is predicting that by...
The Great American Experiment
There are more than 1,000 chemicals known to be toxic to the brains of animals in lab experiments. Yet we only know of 214 for humans, and just 12 for developing fetuses and infants, a recent study revealed. Why are these numbers so far apart? Is it because lab...
