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Spend More on the Climate, Less on the Military
As deserts expand and droughts persist, desperate people begin fighting over the water that remains. Elsewhere, rising sea levels create mass migrations. These portraits of human tragedy caused by climate change have become environmental security threats that the U.S. military now worries about.
Geoengineering is a Recipe for Disaster
Think you’ve heard enough about climate change? Chances are you haven’t heard anything about the dangerous and costly sci-fi climate fixes known as geoengineering.
Trojan Malpractice
It was just a lone sentence tacked on to the very end of a long New York Times article. The story focused on a recent report from President Obama’s bipartisan commission on reducing the national debt. “Panel Seeks Cuts in Social Security and Higher Taxes” was indeed about cuts in Social Security and proposed tax increases–the things most pundits jump on. But the last sentence caught my eye: “[The commission plan] would limit malpractice awards, long a Republican goal.”
We Must do More about North Korea’s Nukes
North Korea keeps its word, at least on the nuclear front.
ISO: Obama’s Campaign-Trail Eloquence
What I can’t understand is why so many people of modest means are against taxing the filthy rich. Recent polls show a majority of people favoring the extension of Bush’s tax cuts for the rich. Why?
At Last, Larry’s Going Away
Thank God and Harvard–Larry Summers is going away. But not before doing extraordinary damage to America’s middle class and to the man who hired him. Summers, chief architect of Barack Obama’s squirrelly Wall Street policies, says he’ll move on at the end of the year.
Nuclear Winter
Buses Are the Answer
With all due respect to President Barack Obama and the $8 billion he’s dishing out to the states for high-speed rail, it’s too late.
The Lineup: Week of November 22-28, 2010
In this week’s OtherWords editorial package, Tiffany Williams calls for raising the minimum wage and Lisa Hajjar highlights the recent conviction of Canadian Guantanamo detainee Omar Khadr. Get all this and more in your inbox by subscribing to our weekly newsletter. If you haven’t signed up yet, please do.
Raise the Minimum Wage
When he was campaigning in 2008, President Barack Obama promised to raise the federal minimum wage, declaring “people who work full-time should not live in poverty.” Obama proposed raising it to $9.50 by 2011. That would merely adjust the minimum wage for inflation and restore its 1968 purchasing power.
