This Week in OtherWords: April 16, 2014

This Week in OtherWords: April 16, 2014

This 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...
Milking Public Education

Milking Public Education

The building stood facing me, the windows staring ahead like hundreds of scrutinizing eyes. It was larger than I thought it would be. I looked around as I dug my hands into my pockets, struggling to retain heat. Across the street was a public housing development that...
A Loveless Diplomatic Marriage with No Future

A Loveless Diplomatic Marriage with No Future

Among the would-be therapists of the foreign policy world, the alliance between the United States and Saudi Arabia is a textbook case of a “loveless marriage.” Though the values of the two states are at odds, or so the thinking goes, the great democracy...
Of High-Speed Fastballs and High-Speed Trades

Of High-Speed Fastballs and High-Speed Trades

The sweet-swinging Detroit Tigers infielder Miguel Cabrera may or may not turn out to be, by the time he retires, the best hitter in baseball history. But Cabrera already holds a historic distinction Just before the opening day of the 2014 baseball season, the...
Bacon Is Not a Vegetable

Bacon Is Not a Vegetable

As a vegetarian, I have to walk a fine line. Really, I’m not judging you. But I often find it necessary to establish myself as “not a threat” to meat eaters. I also occasionally bump up against militant vegans. Consider this collision I had the other...