| Apr 5, 2017 | Rights / DemocracyImagine a parent who starves his children and fails to do any number of basic parental duties, but then buys one of his kids a healthy meal. Well, that’s good. Great, really. But it’s not enough. An act of goodness directed at one child cannot feed an...
| Mar 29, 2017 | Roundup|UncategorizedThis week, flanked by coal miners, Donald Trump announced plans to reverse the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan. Trump has blamed that signature Obama climate initiative for the loss of coal jobs, but as Jill Richardson points out this week, it...
| | Environment / HealthWhen Barack Obama announced the Clean Power Plan, Scientific American used his own words to criticize it for not going far enough. “There is such a thing as being too late when it comes to climate change,” Obama said. “The science tells us we have to...
| Mar 22, 2017 | Roundup|UncategorizedHouse Republicans are racing ahead with their plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. This week in OtherWords, we take a look at one of the less covered aspects of the GOP plan: its impact on America’s devastating opioid crisis. My hometown of...
| Mar 15, 2017 | Roundup|UncategorizedNot long ago, Donald Trump promised that his replacement for Obamacare would provide “insurance for everybody.” But the latest numbers from the Congressional Budget Office say 24 million Americans would actually lose coverage under the Republican bill...
