| Feb 20, 2013 | Economy / BusinessOur political vocabulary is changing all the time. Words that loom large in one generation’s national public discourse can almost totally disappear in the next. Take the word “segregation.” A half-century ago, newspapers headlined “segregation” on almost a daily...
| Feb 13, 2013 | Rights / Democracy|RoundupThis week in OtherWords, John Cavanagh explains why President Obama’s State of the Union address falls short, Ben Freeman says that scaling back the Pentagon’s budget isn’t just for progressives any more, and Donald Kaul skewers the latest Republican...
| | Rights / DemocracyI’ve had enough. Enough of rape being subject to terms like “legitimate.” Enough of hearing that my peers just “raped” their final exams. Enough of being labeled too-politically-correct when I challenge the oversimplification and...
| | Rights / DemocracyIn his State of the Union address, President Barack Obama deftly nudged the national debate further away from the dominant austerity framework that brought us the misguided budget deal on New Year’s Day. He also brought much-needed attention to the critical jobs...
| Jan 30, 2013 | Economy / BusinessApologists for inequality have a standard retort to anyone who calls for a more equal distribution of the world’s treasure. If you took all the wealth of the wealthy and divvied it up equally among all the poor, they claim, no one would gain enough to accomplish...
