| Oct 22, 2014 | Roundup|UncategorizedThis week in OtherWords, Jill Richardson suggests that the amount of sugar Americans eat is way scarier than the slim chance they’ll get Ebola while I ask whether Halloween chocolate is too cheap. Do you want to make sure you don’t miss the latest from...
| | Peace / SecurityIn his recent meeting with President Barack Obama, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he was “committed to the vision of peace for two states for two peoples.” That sounds nice. But Netanyahu has done everything possible to demonstrate that...
| | Rights / DemocracySupporters of the right to vote just suffered a huge setback. On October 9, voter ID laws that could have disenfranchised nearly a million voters in Wisconsin and Texas were ruled unconstitutional. The timing of these rulings — one by a Supreme Court majority and the...
| | Economy / BusinessTiffany Beroid, a mother and Wal-Mart employee in Laurel, Maryland, was forced to drop out of college because of her employer’s low wages and erratic scheduling practices. When she spoke out about the problems she faced, Wal-Mart fired her. Since then, Beroid...
| | Environment / HealthGosh, time flies when it’s pushed along by a jet stream of greed. It seems like only yesterday that Wal-Mart announced, with much self-congratulatory fanfare, that the super-rich retailing colossus wasn’t a scrooge after all. Indeed, while the...
