Cigarettes: The Killer that Won’t Die
Taxes trump cancer every time.
This Week in OtherWords: September 10-16, 2012
OtherWords is running a debut column by Katie Halper, our new guest columnist.
A Glimmer of Military Budget Sanity
Even House Republicans can’t stomach spending $17,000 on a helicopter drip pan.
Illegal Interns
Unpaid internships have metastasized into a labor market scourge.
We Won the War on Poverty, then Lost the Peace
If America could eliminate most serious poverty in the United States in the 1960s, surely we could do the same today.
The Drought Lottery
Our lawmakers should spend the next month figuring out how to reduce our $16 trillion debt instead of showering special interests with even more wasteful subsidies that have nothing to do with the drought.
Virtually, Anything Goes with Online Education
State officials are allowing tax dollars to underwrite K-12 virtual disasters.
Ann Romney’s Unedited Convention Speech Leaked
Sometimes the elevator for our cars takes an inordinate amount of time.
Radioactive Ties
Whether corporate political money shouts or whispers, it still corrupts.
Just Another Corporate Profit Center
Americans who want to know what caused Haiti’s devastation need to look in the mirror.
Military Pork Shield
These $800 toilet seats can come in handy sometimes.
This Week in OtherWords: September 3-9, 2012
Sam Pizzigati explains that the windfalls extracted from Apple’s patenting bonanza will pad its top executives’ pockets.
The Six Stages of Climate Grief
I have discovered a new sixth stage, beyond acceptance of the truly depressing climate science: doing The Work.
AT&T’s Upside-Down World
If we had actual competition for mobile phone services in America, AT&T’s decision to charge you more for less would never fly.
Indefensible: The Truth about Pentagon Spending
A mountain of misleading rhetoric from big Pentagon contractors has buried the facts.