| Dec 22, 2012 | Rights / DemocracyEditor’s note: OtherWords sent this note to people who wrote us after Donald Kaul said he’d take a break from writing following a heart attack. If you would like to get on that list, please send a note to him too or just let us know with an email to...
| Dec 19, 2012 | Rights / DemocracyIt’s not just about the bird. When Mitt Romney declared in the first presidential debate that if he were elected he would cut funding for Big Bird, he really meant he’d take the knife to the whole kit and kaboodle. His policy platform called for the total...
| | Rights / DemocracyMichigan is no longer a state. It is now “Michiganistan,” an autocratic czardom in the hands of Emperor Rick Snyder. Formerly the Republican governor, Snyder has been enthroned by the GOP’s lame-duck, legislative supermajority to rule with an iron...
| Dec 18, 2012 | Rights / DemocracyAbout half of the nation’s states are now enforcing corporate servitude measures like the “right-to-work” bill that Michigan’s lame-duck legislature and conservative governor just rushed into law. These misleadingly named laws make it harder,...
| Dec 5, 2012 | Rights / DemocracyThe biggest story in Washington is about something that doesn’t really exist: the so-called ”fiscal cliff.” This manufactured panic is all about politicians and corporate interests getting things they want — things that don’t have much to...
| Dec 4, 2012 | Rights / DemocracyOnce again, there’s a tempest brewing in the national tea pot. We’re talking secession. Well, some of us are. Actually, very few are — and some of them aren’t too tightly wrapped. There’s now a secession drive in a mess of red states, but...
