| Apr 30, 2014 | Roundup|UncategorizedThis week in OtherWords, Sarah Anderson suggests a way to protect the economy from the hazards of high-frequency trading and William A. Collins and I discuss the resegregation of public schools in light of the upcoming 60th anniversary of the landmark Brown ruling. Do...
| Apr 29, 2014 | Rights / DemocracyRick “Oops” Perry is back, pitching himself for another presidential run. This time, he’s sporting eyeglasses. What fun. Who can forget the Texas governor’s nationally televised pratfall during a 2011 presidential debate, when he couldn’t...
| Apr 23, 2014 | Roundup|UncategorizedThis 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...
| Apr 22, 2014 | Food / FarmingIn 79 A.D., a volcanic eruption buried Pompeii in ash. Nearly 2,000 years later, an eruption of hot legislative ash is spewing from Rep. Mike Pompeo (R-KS) is threatening U.S. consumers. Pompeo is the right-wing Congress critter from the Ideological Republic of...
| Apr 16, 2014 | Roundup|UncategorizedThis 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...