| Oct 22, 2012 | UncategorizedMitt Romney wants to be president alright… this president. We knew the foreign policy positions of the the two candidates were similar, but who knew Mitt copped a peek at Obama’s notes before the debate and wrote them on his hand? Romney now is a peacenik,...
| Oct 17, 2012 | Roundup|UncategorizedHalf a century ago this month, the Cuban Missile Crisis didn’t culiminate in an exchange of nuclear blows between Washington and Moscow. This week in OtherWords, Arnold Oliver recaps the lessons of that showdown, reminding us of how lucky we were and still are...
| Oct 3, 2012 | Roundup|UncategorizedThis week, Sam Pizzigati’s latest OtherWords column sums up the findings of a new Inequality Report Card that “grades” lawmakers. He’s part of an Institute for Policy Studies team that assessed the performance of Congress on this important...
| Sep 24, 2012 | Roundup|UncategorizedThis week, OtherWords is running an op-ed by Raul A. Reyes that sums up Mitt Romney’s lackluster efforts to win over Latino voters and a commentary by Dashka Slater about the disappearance of the kinds of jobs that traditionally provided low-income Americans...
| Sep 17, 2012 | Roundup|UncategorizedThis week, OtherWords is running Katie Halper’s second guest column. Her latest commentary unpacks Rep. Joe Walsh’s “greatest hits.” We’re also featuring an op-ed by Peter Hart about how the important issue of poverty just isn’t...
| Sep 12, 2012 | UncategorizedThis blogpost originally appeared on Truthout. According to Census Bureau figures released today, 15 percent of the US population lives in poverty. In 2011, more than 46 million Americans lived below a poverty line that was set more than four decades ago, in 1969. The...
