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This Week in OtherWords: April 23, 2014
This week in OtherWords, Marjorie Elizabeth Wood explains how taxpayers help foot the cost of massive pay packages for restaurant-industry execs who lobby against raising the minimum wage and Jim Hightower weighs in on the latest skirmish in the war on voting. Do you...
This Week in OtherWords: April 16, 2014
This week in OtherWords, Jill Richardson tells "vegangelicals" they'd become better missionaries for a healthy-eating lifestyle if they just stopped preaching and Amanda Ufheil-Somers suggests that the United States and Saudi Arabia end what she calls a "loveless...
This Week in OtherWords: April 9, 2014
This week, we're running our annual OtherWords Tax Day special edition. Chuck Collins and Bob Lord explain how billionaires are bypassing the estate tax and what's wrong with that. Jim Hightower and cartoonist Khalil Bendib skewer Caterpillar Inc. for an offshore tax...
This Week in OtherWords: April 2, 2014
This week in OtherWords, William A. Collins and I weigh in with some good news and bad news about the news business while Andrew Korfhage calls on Apple to do something about the cancerous chemicals poisoning the Chinese workers making iPhones and other gadgets....
This Week in OtherWords: March 26, 2014
This week in OtherWords, Brett Fleishman writes about how Shell and ExxonMobil recently tossed some logs into the fossil-fuel divestment fire and Jill Richardson explains what's wrong with time-saving coffee pods. Do you want to make sure you don’t miss the latest...
This Week in OtherWords: March 19, 2014
This week in OtherWords, Dana Brown explains why she'd like to see Washington ditch the Cuban embargo and Richard Kirsch says that Republicans aren't going to win the 2014 mid-term elections by harping endlessly about the Affordable Care Act. Do you want to make sure...
This week in OtherWords: March 12, 2014
This week in OtherWords, Sam Pizzigati points out that the Internet didn't have to be an engine of inequality and Sarah Anderson compares those huge bonuses Wall Street reels in with yearly pay for the minimum-wage workforce. Do you want to make sure you don't miss...
This week in OtherWords: March 5, 2014
This week in OtherWords, Timothy Karr explains what's so bad about Comcast's plan to gobble up Time Warner Cable while Jim Hightower weighs in on Greg Abbott's choice to campaign with Ted Nugent at his side. I'm new to Twitter @ESGreco, but have realized that...
This Week in OtherWords: February 26, 2014
This week in OtherWords, Maude Barlow explains why we need to save the world's water before it's too late, Pamela Powers Hannley sizes up Arizona's latest legislative embarrassment from a local perspective, and Jill Richardson points out that many popular brands of...
This Week in OtherWords: February 19, 2014
This week in OtherWords, DeNeen L. Brown and Sarah Browning reflect on what the murders of teens like Trayvon Martin and Jordan Davis mean for all mothers of African-American sons and Sam Pizzigati weighs in on the fuss over the initial perception that GM CEO Mary...