Setting the Record Straight

Increasingly we live in a world–alas–of deliberate misrepresentation and mischaracterization. Or you could call them lies. Thank God for mainstream, fair-minded journalists like myself, who care for little but truth, justice, and setting the record...

See Newt Run

Oh, please, Santa Claus, please! Please give us the political gift that keeps giving: Newt Gingrich. The Newt says he is planning to be the Republican nominee for president in 2012, and all I can say is: “Yes!” The corrupt former House speaker was forced...

The Case for Killing Bush’s Tax Cuts for the Rich

Things in Washington these days are beginning to look a lot like Dickens’ A Christmas Carol: Two ghosts from Republican administrations past have risen from political Palookaville to rattle their chains and issue dire warnings to their former colleagues....

The Lineup: Week of August 2-8, 2010

Here’s what you’ll find in the latest OtherWords editorial package, which features an op-ed and a cartoon on the WikiLeaks controversy. In his weekly column, Donald Kaul worries about what American politicians are doing to future generations. Get all this...

Our Grandchildren Deserve Better Politicians

We live in grim times, which is why you have to take your laughs where you can get them. For example, in Washington, where Republican congresspeople keep talking about their concern for their grandchildren as an excuse for voting against…well, practically...