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A Vanishing Act for Good Jobs
Ashley Brown wants to be a bank teller. When I met her this past spring, the 26-year old single mother was cold-calling banks and credit unions, looking for one that might hire her. So far, she’d had one interview and a lot of unfriendly brush-offs. No offers.
The ‘Self-Made’ Hallucination of America’s Rich
Let’s cut Mitt Romney some slack. Not every off-the-cuff comment he made at that now infamous, secretly taped $50,000-a-plate fundraiser in Boca Raton reveals an utterly shocking personal failing. Take, for instance, Mitt’s remark that he has “inherited nothing.”
A Memo to Mitt and Ann
I feel sorry for Mitt Romney. By now, he has offended just about every American group, except billionaires, morons, and robots. To stand a chance on Election Day, he must get his act together right now. Pundits and experts can argue over whether Mitt’s problem is biological, moral, or electrical. I think he just needs some pointers. In that spirit, I’ve developed this handy manual of do’s and don’ts for the Republican presidential nominee — plus some tips for his wife.
The Price of Admission
Gosh, I feel so much safer now that teenage ticket takers at the Regal chain of movie theaters have been directed by corporate chieftains to search the purses of their female customers.
Vote for This Clown
Just Don’t Say Climate Change
Our weather keeps getting weirder. We’re seeing record-busting heat waves, droughts, thaws, and forest fires, freakish “derecho” storms, and spring striking weeks too early. Most of these trends are either caused or exacerbated by another, underlying problem: climate change.
The One Percent Supreme Court: A Conversation with the Nation’s Katrina vanden Heuvel
Martha Burk interviews Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor of The Nation magazine and a Washington Post columnist. They talked about the poisoning of politics by the Citizens United Supreme Court decision, and what can be done about it.
This Week in OtherWords: September 17-23, 2012
Katie Halper’s second guest column unpacks Rep. Joe Walsh’s “greatest hits.”
Baseball Escapism
Seated in the upper deck at San Francisco’s AT&T Park, during a Giants-Rockies game, you wouldn’t know millions of Americans are underwater and unemployed, or that the 2012 elections were less than two months away. The large man seated next to me cups his hand over his mouth to scream, “Colorado, you suck” and other such sagacious slogans as the game creeps on, and the sun sets over San Francisco Bay.
The Latest Battle in the War on Voting
The Republican Party claims to be the party of small government — with the obvious exceptions of denying marriage equality and reproductive rights. But there is another kind of big government that the party has overwhelmingly, enthusiastically gotten behind: expensive and intrusive attempts to make it harder for Americans to vote.
