The Lineup: Week of October 4-10, 2010

Here’s what you’ll find in our latest editorial package, which includes an op-ed by Marge Baker and a column by Donald Kaul regarding the tea party’s GOP candidates this election season. Get all this and more in your inbox by subscribing to our...

The Lineup: Week of September 27-October 3, 2010

The Lineup: Week of September 27-October 3, 2010 Here’s what you’ll find in the latest OtherWords editorial package. This week, Donald Kaul defends Keynes, Jim Hightower asks readers to help him overcome his loss for words, and William A. Collins shines a...

Wikileaks’ Afghan War Diary

Wikileaks released the Afghan War Diary this week, a compilation of 91,370 war documents that reveals what the Guardian calls “a devastating portrait of the failing war in Afghanistan.” The leak was distributed to three Western news sources (Der Spiegel,...

New Thinking on Cutting the Deficit

The Hill reported Friday on a congressional panel, commissioned by Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA), which proposed a new mindset toward defense: The Sustainable Defense Task Force, a commission of scholars from a broad ideological spectrum…laid out actions the...

Lying with Statistics

Peter Hart at Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR) points out that Bill O’Reilly claimed that the New England Journal of Medicine denounced health-care reform. But…that wasn’t, you know, true. He cited some statistics about how supposedly...

What’s Next?

With the health-care fight finally behind him, it looks like Obama can now address other key issues. It’s time for social movements to call on him to take action. The Institute for Policy Studies is working on several policies, including carbon markets, a tax on...