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Steve Cohen, Meet Al Capone
Al Capone was a bad boy. How bad? He cheated on his income taxes. He went to prison in 1931 for that. Not for the people he gunned down, nor for any of the other gross illegalities the guy committed as a notorious Chicago mobster. Tax evasion landed Capone in the...
Just Follow the Oil
Like the United States and most other world powers, Iran foolishly wants to be in the nuclear power business. Atoms offer energy diversity and national prestige, plus a lot of bucks for somebody. There are plenty of environmental and safety reasons to oppose the...
Iran Takes Note of a Non-Proliferation Breakthrough
The Mother Teresa of Global Retail
Want to see pure altruism in action? Go to Washington, D.C. — not to the federal government's marble buildings, but to the real city, where ordinary folks live. There you'll find a business organization that wants nothing more than to serve the people, help improve...
Reproductive Rights Get Gutted Again
Despite the reproductive rights uprising inspired by Wendy Davis' heroic filibuster, lame-duck Texas Governor Rick Perry has continued his anti-choice rampage. By signing a contentious measure into law, Perry has made it much more difficult for Texan women —...
This Week in OtherWords: July 24, 2013
This week in OtherWords, Donald Kaul weighs in on Detroit's bankruptcy, Jim Hightower explains how McDonald's wound up drawing attention to its own McWages, and William A. Collins and I question the selective use of the term "terrorist." There's much more, even though...
Talkin’ ‘Bout My Generation
After graduating from high school, I had two choices: I could earn a college degree while shouldering debt, or struggle in a highly competitive job market without one. I chose the former. And I'm not the only one. My generation is setting records in higher education....
Actually, It Is About You
Unless you're a politician or a star athlete, the news of the day is rarely about your life. But sometimes, the media is buzzing quite specifically about you. Are you part of that conversation? Nope. That kind of treatment is reserved for people who lack political...
Building an Underclass of Workers
You've probably heard that America has millions of undocumented immigrants. Maybe one of them lives next door to you. Or there's one lurking on your roof. Or another lying nearby on the beach. My kids go to school with undocumented immigrants. They play on the same...
Swerving to the Right
The Supreme Court rulings that made marriage equality a reality for many same-sex couples and struck down an Arizona law that made it harder to register to vote were important civil rights victories. But, they obscure our highest court's rightward shift. Consider...
