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Scandal Season at the Obama White House
It’s not an easy task, defending President Barack Obama from his enemies. The “scandals” keep popping up like dandelions — all of them explainable, after a fashion. Taken together, the explanations begin to sound like “the dog ate my homework.” For example: No one...
Money Still Can’t Buy Happiness
What makes us happy? In America, we've been asking this question ever since 1776, the year we declared for "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." Back then, Americans seeking more happiness had little more than guesswork to go by. Now we have help: a new...
Censoring Our Food
Standing outside a slaughterhouse in Draper City, Utah, Amy Meyer was horrified by what she saw. Cows struggled to stay out of the plant and employees hauled one cow that appeared sick or injured in a tractor. While standing on public property, Meyer pulled out her...
The New Crime of Eating While Homeless
Whenever one of our cities gets a star turn as host of some super-sparkly event, such as a national political gathering or the Super Bowl, its first move is to tidy up — by having the police sweep homeless people into jail, out of town, or under some rug. But...
Cannon Fodder, 21st Century-Style
The White House Almost never frets, About the lies It told to vets. This Memorial Day, I'd like to salute the young people who continue to enlist in our armed forces. Their initial training reinforces their sense that America is beset with many ill-motivated enemies...
The Pentagon’s Assault Guidelines
Less Beer, More Can
Anyone who says that America has lost its innovative edge in technology and manufacturing hasn't chugged a can of Bud recently. The buzz is back, baby! Well, actually, Budweiser is no longer American. It's now part of a Belgian outfit called Anheuser-Busch InBev, the...
This Week in OtherWords: May 15, 2013
This week in OtherWords, Jill Richardson warns readers gearing up for their summer barbecues about the rise of superbugs. Those antibiotic-resistant bacteria are getting hard to avoid if you buy meat in American supermarkets. We also have an op-ed by Raul A. Reyes on...
The Swinging Electorate
It's official: African Americans are the nation's most important swing state. Last summer, I predicted that the African American vote would tip the scales in the 2012 election of Barack Obama. My organization, the National Urban League, foresaw a continuation of a...
License to Kill
Regulations stink, right? Lots of politicians run on promises that they'll get rid of them to make way for an economic boom. Well, have you ever considered what our world would look like without regulations? In the early 20th century, almost all paint contained lead....
