This week in OtherWords, William A. Collins and I discuss the growing support for legal marijuana and Bob Lord points out that a single hedge fund manager makes about the same amount of money in a year as all the inhabitants of Springfield, Ohio.
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- The Latest Crack in Our Broken Immigration System / Diana Anahi Torres-Valverde
Undocumented immigrants who arrive as children may be well into their 40s before they get a green card. - Crafting a Hobby Lobby Doc Fix / Martha Burk
The Republican Party may experience more fallout than any one company from the Supreme Court’s birth control ruling. - Peace Wins in Colombia / Margaret Boehme
Voters chose a new president determined to negotiate an end to the country’s 50-year-old insurgency. - Worth More: One Man or an Entire City? / Bob Lord
What does it say about our society when one hedge fund manager makes a bigger income than the whole population of Springfield, Ohio or Burbank, California? - The End of Pot Prohibition As We Know It / Emily Schwartz Greco and William A. Collins
Without federal leadership, you can count on marijuana legalization to keep spreading one state at a time. - Shortchanging Our National Treasures / Jill Richardson
State and national parks alike are underfunded in this era of tight budgets. - Cargill’s Integrity-Free Soybean Oil / Jim Hightower
By huge margins, consumers don’t want Frankenfoods on their tables. - Stone-Cold Immigrants / Khalil Bendib cartoon
Stone Cold Immigrants, an OtherWords cartoon by Khalil Bendib
