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Shortchanging Our Paychecks
Back in the “Happy Days” of the 1950s and 1960s, most young American couples graduated from high school or college, got married, and immediately bought the most expensive house they could afford. They bought their houses on credit, their cars on credit, their appliances on credit, their furniture on credit, and even their baby clothes on credit. They didn’t have credit cards, but they sure did have debt.
Obama: Reject the Tar Sands Pipeline
The seven members of Congress who signed a strongly worded letter to an Obama cabinet official on October 5 raised serious concerns about the administration’s cozy relationship with a high-profile energy company.
Missouri’s Troy Davis
People who had never heard of Davis or had never thought much about the death penalty suddenly confronted Georgia’s senseless act of brutality. They asked themselves: how could the state kill someone in the face of so much doubt about his guilt?
Newspaper Nostalgia
It’s been a little more than 50 years since I first walked into the Des Moines Register newsroom to begin a career in journalism. It was a beat-up scruffy place filled with beat-up scruffy people, almost all men. They worked in a big room lined with gray steel desks piled high with newspapers, stacks of books, notebooks, and ashtrays overflowing with cigarette stubs. They wrote on manual, black typewriters. The phones, also black, had rotary dials.
The GOP Loves the Federal Spending it Hates
In 2009, even as the Kentucky senator was loudly deriding Obama’s original stimulus program, he was quietly urging Obama’s energy secretary to give a quarter-billion-dollar loan guarantee to Zap Motors for a clean-energy plant it wanted to build in McConnell’s state.
Veterans, the Human Rubble of Our Wars
Not long ago President Barack Obama, with great fanfare, presented a Congressional Medal of Honor to Dakota Meyer, a living hero. Presidents don’t often get to do that. Normally the recipients are dead. This one appeared to be a 100 percent all-American boy, and no doubt this set off a new surge of patriotic young men zipping to their recruiters.
Tar Sands
The Lineup: Week of Oct. 10-16, 2011
In this week’s OtherWords editorial package, Sarah Anderson and Chuck Collins explain why Congress shouldn’t give a tax break to corporations that hoard profits in overseas tax havens. Get all this and more in your inbox by subscribing to our weekly newsletter. If you haven’t signed up yet, please do.
Job Destroyers Don’t Deserve a Tax Holiday
A coalition of big businesses is waging a campaign for a massive tax holiday on corporate profits stashed overseas. Its lobbyists claim that this windfall would create millions of jobs. If our lawmakers buy that, they’ve got very short memories.
How to Achieve Transparency for the Supercommittee
Come December, the priorities and role of our government could be drastically and fundamentally altered. Are your views and concerns being heard?
