| Oct 4, 2012 | Rights / DemocracyI think the Republicans set themselves up for a tough challenge when they cast Barack Obama as the outsider, Kenyan usurper while Mitt Romney was supposed to represent the traditional white establishment. Henry Kissinger even recognized it during the Vietnam War:...
| | Rights / DemocracyWho won the first 2012 presidential debate between Mitt Romney and Barack Obama? If you ask the Twitterverse, Big Bird nailed an easy victory. Huh? In case you missed it, the sole quasi-joke either candidate cracked came when Mitt Romney vowed to choke off the...
| Oct 3, 2012 | Roundup|UncategorizedThis week, Sam Pizzigati’s latest OtherWords column sums up the findings of a new Inequality Report Card that “grades” lawmakers. He’s part of an Institute for Policy Studies team that assessed the performance of Congress on this important...
| Sep 24, 2012 | Roundup|UncategorizedThis week, OtherWords is running an op-ed by Raul A. Reyes that sums up Mitt Romney’s lackluster efforts to win over Latino voters and a commentary by Dashka Slater about the disappearance of the kinds of jobs that traditionally provided low-income Americans...
| Sep 21, 2012 | Rights / DemocracyWhether you’re a Democrat, Republican, tea-partier, liberal, conservative, or in-between, you’re experiencing an election season unlike any in U.S. history. That’s because the rules on political spending have changed in a billion dollar way. In 2010,...
