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No Happy Ending in Honduras
Honduras isn’t drawing the waves of tourists Costa Rica has lured. And that’s not just because its food is lackluster. Honduras is experiencing the worst political turmoil in Latin America–thanks in part to the Obama administration’s embrace of a regrettable U.S. foreign policy tradition.
Gun Violence and Children
Somalia, whose government collapsed in 1991, has been in a constant state of conflict and tension for years and still has no legally recognized government. The United States joins Somalia as the only two countries in the world not to ratify the Convention on the Rights of the Child, an international treaty recognizing the human rights of children that UNICEF points out is the most widely and rapidly ratified human rights treaty in history.
Uncle Sam Shouldn’t Bankroll Lawmaker Libraries
The only two constants in life are death and taxes. Congress has decided to combine the two by sending tens of millions of tax dollars, in lieu of flowers, to underwrite non-profit institutions named after recently deceased lawmakers, Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-MA) and Rep. John Murtha (D-PA).
Religious Freedom isn’t just for Christians
It seems that the quickest path to popularity these days is to say terrible things about Islam.
Offshoring America’s Legal Jobs
Maybe you’re one of the thousands of young lawyers in America working in some low-skill, part-time job because law firms have cut so many of the starting positions you were educated to take. If so, I have good news: Jobs for young lawyers are now mushrooming in companies that provide legal services to U.S. corporations.
Terry Ahmadinejad
Health Care is America’s Cash Cow
America’s hallowed “market democracy” has favored us with a cornucopia of shimmering goods and services. At least, if you can afford them. Unfortunately, that system doesn’t work so well for health.
The Lineup: Week of September 13-19, 2010
Here’s what you’ll find in the latest OtherWords editorial package.
Remembering Ronni
Until 9/11, most Americans didn’t believe that a terrorist attack could ever happen on U.S. soil. Yet one had occurred just a generation earlier–on September 21, 1976 on Embassy Row in Washington. One of the victims was New Jersey-born Ronni Karpen Moffitt, a 25-year-old college graduate and newlywed. She was killed on her way to work, as the car she was riding in succumbed to a car bomb planted by agents of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet. Orlando Letelier, her colleague and the car’s driver, also perished.
Elders’ Safety Net Could Fray After Nov. 2
Stores are already full of Halloween costumes and scary stuff for October 31. TV stations are gearing up for reruns of “Nightmare on Elm Street” and its many sequels, when Freddy Krueger will revisit us again and again.
