In this week’s OtherWords editorial package, Martha Burk weighs in on Rush Limbaugh’s ill-timed attack on Georgetown law student Sandra Fluke and its aftermath and William A. Collins discusses the death-with-dignity movement. Get all this and more in your inbox by subscribing to our weekly newsletter. If you haven’t signed up yet, please do.

  1. Rush Limbaugh and the Live Volcano / Martha Burk
    American women are fed up.
  2. Hate Groups Spread Lies and Kill Cops / Mark Potok
    Law enforcement officials say the number of violent encounters with anti-government “sovereign citizens” is rising.
  3. Inching Toward Progress on the North Korean Nuke Problem / Duyeon Kim
    The road to a negotiated settlement will be long and bumpy.
  4. Job-Killing Tax Breaks / Rachael Solem
    If the government is going to give anyone tax breaks, they should give them to people like me before I became an entrepreneur.
  5. Pumping Gas Prices for All They’re Worth / Donald Kaul
    Can our nation survive $5-a-gallon gas?
  6. Attack of the Billionaires / Jim Hightower
    Some 300 uber-rich corporate plutocrats and their political hirelings have pledged at least $100 million to bombard the Obama campaign with viciously negative ads.
  7. The Freedom to Die with Dignity / William A. Collins
    Catholic hospitals follow an edict that requires them to override do-not-resuscitate orders.
  8. Five Bucks a Gallon / Khalil Bendib
Five Bucks a Gallon, an OtherWords cartoon by Khalil Bendib.

Five Bucks a Gallon, an OtherWords cartoon by Khalil Bendib.

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