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This Week in OtherWords: September 10-16, 2012
Katie, a young writer who is also a stand-up comedian, has shared an “unedited” (that is, a painfully honest and entertaining) draft of Ann Romney’s speech with our readers.
This Week in OtherWords: September 3-9, 2012
Craig Aaron warns that AT&T is about to charge consumers more for less service.
Labor Day Special: Week of August 27-September 2, 2012
Deborah Burger calls for better nurse-staffing ratios at the nation’s hospitals, Amy Dean makes the case for accountability when companies getting tax breaks for being “job creators” don’t create jobs, and Virginia Sole-Smith casts light on how Mary Kay exploits its own sales force.
The Lineup: Week of August 20-26, 2012
The Lineup: Week of August 13-19, 2012
Robert G. Gard, a retired lieutenant general, urges Congress to take action to avoid the upcoming “fiscal cliff.”
Donald Kaul’s Departure
Donald Kaul‘s decision to quit writing a column had a special meaning for me. He and I started as reporters at the same time at the Des Moines (Iowa) Register and Tribune
The Lineup: Week of August 6-12, 2012
This week’s OtherWords editorial package features an op-ed about the privatization of public schools by Jeff Bale and Sarah Knopp.
The Lineup: Week of July 30-August 5, 2012
This week’s OtherWords editorial package features Sam Pizzigati‘s first column, in which he explains why wealth inequality is officially holding steady while income inequality is growing increasingly skewed. Jim Hightower skewers Mitt Romney’s financial shenanigans, and William A. Collins puts the nation’s penchant for guns in perspective.
The Lineup: Week of July 23-29, 2012
This week’s OtherWords editorial package features the last Donald Kaul column we’ll run — either forever, or for a while. Don explains his indefinite hiatus in his own words, I pay tribute to him in my column, and Khalil Bendib’s cartoon celebrates his brilliant legacy.
The Lineup: Week of July 16-22, 2012
Jim Hightower celebrates the growing success of locally brewed beer.