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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...
We’ve Got to Get Out of That Place
The U.S. war in Afghanistan is beginning to wind down. As President Barack Obama promised in his State of the Union address, half of the U.S. troops there will return home by this time next year. But many details remain hazy. For instance, what will happen with the...
Give the Post Office a Break
The Postal Service says it's going to stop delivering mail on Saturdays. This won't happen until August, but the overseers of our postal workers in Congress are already swooning. "Outrageous" is the cry rolling through the halls of the Capitol. Can't help it, responds...
A Triumph of Sewage and Stench
Just over a year ago, the Costa Concordia, a Carnival Cruise ocean liner, ran aground on an Italian reef. Thirty-two died. "We expect to fully recover from the ship incident," the subsequent Carnival annual report told shareholders. Earlier this month, Carnival...
We’re All Guinea Pigs
A few years ago, my world changed when I began dating a single dad whose youngest child was a toddler. Bonding with and loving his two kids has been the single most enriching and rewarding — and sometimes frustrating and exhausting — experience of my life. During the...
The Organized Sports Racket
While we sports fans regularly lionize the stars of pro baseball, football, basketball, etc., it's time to acknowledge that the team executives and owners are also great athletes of a different sort. They routinely make dazzling off-the-field moves. The Miami Herald...
