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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...
Poetic Justice Strikes the CEO of ExxonMobil
Rex Tillerson is mad. Fracking mad. The 61-year old farmer from Bartonville, Texas is another victim of the fracking boom that has invaded people's homes and lives nationwide, from upstate New York to Southern California. Millions of Americans have experienced...
A Recipe for Better Disaster Movies
It's hard not to love mediocre, bad, or even awful movies that portray a post-apocalyptic or utterly dysfunctional future. If you've watched Logan's Run, Water World, The Day After Tomorrow, AI, or Soylent Green more than once, you'll know what we mean. But there's...
Held Captive by Bad Policy
The Secret Affair Your Lawmaker Wants to Hide from You
How bad will it get? The public approval rating for Congress has sunk to 9 percent, the lowest level since Gallup began to ask us about it. But your lawmakers are bound to get even more unpopular. Willing legislators have begun a scandalous relationship with corporate...
Bossy Is Bossy, Leadership Is Something Else
For someone who doesn't like the word "Bossy," Sheryl Sandberg sure likes to tell us what to do. "Lean in," "You can't have balance," "Get someone else to do your laundry for you." I'm not saying bossy's a good word. It can be used to paint girls as shrill. But it...
This week in OtherWords: March 12, 2014
This week in OtherWords, Sam Pizzigati points out that the Internet didn't have to be an engine of inequality and Sarah Anderson compares those huge bonuses Wall Street reels in with yearly pay for the minimum-wage workforce. Do you want to make sure you don't miss...
