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Your Labor Rights or Your Life
When President Barack Obama announced in April that the U.S.-Colombia Free Trade Agreement was finally going into effect, he assured the public that “[t]his agreement is a win for both our countries. It’s a win for our workers…because of the protections it has.”
Cleaning Up Campaign Finance
If there were ever any hope that the Supreme Court’s right wing would temper its assault on clean elections laws, that hope recently slipped away. In a five-four decision issued at the end of June, the Court’s conservative majority — the same five men who issued 2010’s Citizens United ruling — reversed Montana’s century-old ban on corporate spending on elections without even hearing its defense.
Marching Toward Greater Inequality
Are America’s rich getting richer? Certainly. Every official yardstick shows that America’s most affluent are upping their incomes much faster than everyone else.
How Mitt Got His
What a blessing it is for Mitt Romney to serve as the Republican nominee for president.
Unmanly Drones
One Nation, Under the Gun
Following that dark opening-night screening of the latest Batman movie in Aurora, Colorado., it’s time to contemplate yet again why America’s troubled young men kill so many more people than their counterparts in the rest of the world’s more affluent nations.
Letters to the Editor: Readers Respond to Kaul’s Departure, Part II
Don’t quit now. We need your insights and opinions.
Shell-shocked Again, this Time because of Aurora
The night of Friday, July 20 was destined to make headlines — but never for this.
Letters to the Editor: Readers Respond to Kaul’s Departure
“Get well and keep us sensible folk in mind. The crazies are taking over. You have more great observations to make.”
—Ann Bevington
The Lineup: Week of July 23-29, 2012
This week’s OtherWords editorial package features the last Donald Kaul column we’ll run — either forever, or for a while. Don explains his indefinite hiatus in his own words, I pay tribute to him in my column, and Khalil Bendib’s cartoon celebrates his brilliant legacy.
