In OtherWords: August 30, 2017

In OtherWords: August 30, 2017

Last weekend, in a late-Friday announcement in the middle of a hurricane, Donald Trump issued a pardon for Sheriff Joe Arpaio. America’s self-proclaimed “toughest sheriff” had been convicted of criminal contempt for refusing a federal order to stop...
In OtherWords: August 23, 2017

In OtherWords: August 23, 2017

Last week’s Charlottesville debacle concluded with a major development for the Trump administration: the exit of chief strategist Steve Bannon, a longtime lightning rod for the White House on race issues. In this he was only the latest Trump confederate to get...
In OtherWords: August 16, 2017

In OtherWords: August 16, 2017

This week in OtherWords, we look at the fallout from the white nationalist violence Charlottesville. That march was a product of fear, says Olivia Alperstein — fear by a few white racists that the rights of others somehow diminish their own. And it’s proof,...
It’s Not About ‘White Culture’

It’s Not About ‘White Culture’

“I came to this march for the message that white European culture has a right to be here just like every other culture,” a white nationalist protester in Charlottesville told Newsweek. But, he claimed, he’s “not an angry racist.” White...