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Close the Gun Show Loophole
Dozens of Americans will be murdered, hundreds of others will be shot, and nearly 1,000 will be robbed or assaulted with a gun — today. The United States has some of the weakest gun laws in the world. To make us, our families, and our communities safer, we need to...
Carbon Divestment
President Barack Obama is on a rhetorical roll on the issue of climate change. "The 12 hottest years on record have all come in the last 15," Obama pointed out to Congress and the American people in his State of the Union address. "Heat waves, droughts, wildfires,...
Big Can Be Beautiful
I have a question: If this is the greatest country in the world, why do we keep acting so dumb? I suppose the sequestration of the federal budget isn’t as dumb as deliberately going over the fiscal cliff, but it’s plenty dumb. Just as the economy was showing signs of...
The Luxury Fortress in Your Future
A dozen years ago, Brazil ranked as the world's most unequal major nation. Brazil's most affluent 10 percent were grabbing nearly 50 times more income, on average, than Brazil's poorest tenth, over double the U.S. gap. Amid this intense inequality, wealthy Brazilians...
Perturbed by Pesticides
The nastiest looking insect I've ever seen crawled out of a hole near a dead stump in my garden the other day. I was weeding there, and I'm sure I disturbed it. To be honest, I was scared. This thing looked like it could bite me and it would hurt. I briefly considered...
The GOP’s Pitch-Perfect Platform
Here's some unexpected news. It comes from what purports to be an official document of the National Republican Party. And — wow — the policy positions it contains show that party leaders really are serious about coming to their senses and rejecting the far-right...
Stalling the Incomplete Recovery
How do you gauge the impact of depriving 12,000 low-income California preschoolers of the opportunity to participate in the Head Start program because of budgetary gridlock? Or stripping more than half a million people living in poverty of their access to the highly...
NRA Lesson Plan
This Week in OtherWords: February 27, 2013
This week in OtherWords, Jo Comerford likens the imminent across-the-board budget cuts to a truck careening toward a brick wall and Jill Richardson explains what's wrong with an ingredient found in most liquid soaps that Americans use. Below you'll find links to our...
A Global Spotlight on Voter Suppression
Just before his death this past Thanksgiving, my friend Lawrence Guyot whispered one last assignment: We must "internationalize" the struggle over the right to vote. Decades ago, our movement to end segregation and extend the full rights of citizenship to all had been...
