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The Devil Is in the Taxes
While pretty much everybody agrees that the U.S. tax code is a mess, nobody does anything about it. Oh, politicians talk about doing something, but mainly what they do is make it worse. There's a reason for this. You. You're the reason. People, alas, tend to be greedy...
The Bezillionaire Times
Amazon's bezillionaire CEO is buying The Washington Post, America's second-most prestigious daily newspaper. Jeff Bezos only had to pay $250 million, less than 1 percent of his $28 billion personal fortune. Has plutocracy finally overwhelmed our press? Some veteran...
Hold the Pomposity
Ruth Bourdain of Twitter fame has been revealed! If you're like me, you had no idea there ever was someone named Ruth Bourdain on Twitter, or that she was a satirical character made up by an anonymous — but very funny — prankster. Now that "her" identity was exposed...
Get Radio-Active
Are you tired of hearing nothing but the corporate news and mainstream views on commercial, mass-market radio? Well, go get your own station! That's not as preposterous as it might sound, thanks to a freelance, free-range, free-form collective of mostly young...
As the World Drowns
Warming doesn't Bother me, Just turn up The old A/C. Expensive news, everyone: The worldwide cost of the melting Arctic ice may total up to $60 trillion dollars, according to a University of Cambridge study. That's nearly a year's worth of global economic output we'll...
Climate Change We Can Believe In
Solving the Student Debt Crisis
Well, finally! Hard-right congressional leaders and the Obama White House ultimately agreed that interest rates on student loans should not double to nearly 7 percent, as they let happen early in July. Instead, college students will be billed at a rate that will...
This Week in OtherWords: August 7, 2013
This week in OtherWords, Sanjay Jolly describes the promising opportunities that a new wave of low-power FM stations will soon create, Jill Stein explains why she gave Bradley Manning a "presidential pardon," and William A. Collins and I put the rash of newspaper...
A Chance to Start Listening Locally
The world of radio is experiencing a shake-up. The country's second-biggest radio network recently announced it may cancel Rush Limbaugh's show on 40 of its major-market stations. This might not be enough to get Rush off the air altogether, but it's a sign that he may...
Higher Education’s Complicity in the Trayvon Martin Tragedy
The immediate response to the verdict in the George Zimmerman trial on my campus was a mixture of outrage and frustration. A reaction of this kind isn't surprising at a historically black university, especially here at North Carolina A&T State University. I'm a...
