| Apr 13, 2016 | Environment / HealthOur great coastal cities could be flooded within the lifetime of children born today. That’s the conclusion of researchers studying the West Antarctic ice sheet — a mass of ice larger than Mexico that could rapidly break apart over the next century. Meanwhile,...
| | Rights / DemocracyThis spring, the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus has been the site of several heinous acts of racism: An Asian student was spat on and a black student received a note with obscenities and racial slurs slipped under her door. The university is, of course, taking...
| | Economy / BusinessOK people, we need to discuss billboards. Yes, we really must. At best, these giant corporate placards are problematic — they loom garishly over us, clutter our landscapes, and intrude into our communities with no respect for local aesthetics or preferences. Now,...
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| Apr 6, 2016 | Roundup|UncategorizedThis week in OtherWords, Sarah Anderson explains the rationale for levying a tiny tax on financial transactions and Jim Hightower pokes fun at the GOP establishment for thinking that making Paul Ryan the Republican presidential nominee constitutes a winning strategy....
