| Jul 20, 2016 | Roundup|UncategorizedThis week, Donald Trump officially accepts the Republican Party’s nomination for president. The party’s convention in Cleveland has produced a batch of headlines that, like a lot of general election news these days, seems likely to inspire a spike in...
| Jul 13, 2016 | Roundup|UncategorizedOver a century and a half ago, Roger Taney — the chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court — wrote in the infamous Dred Scott decision that black Americans had “no rights which the white man was bound to respect.” This week in OtherWords, Ebony...
| Jul 6, 2016 | Roundup|UncategorizedThis week in OtherWords, Daphne Wysham explains the terrifying reason environmental activists call oil trains “bomb trains” — and why she was willing to spend her honeymoon in jail to stop them. Elsewhere, Sam Pizzigati reports on the tricks big banks are...
| Jun 29, 2016 | Roundup|UncategorizedShortly before last week’s shocking Brexit vote, a British member of parliament campaigning for the “remain” camp was brutally murdered. What you might not have heard was that the alleged killer was linked to neo-Nazi group here in the United States....
| Jun 22, 2016 | Roundup|UncategorizedA big question in Washington this week is whether Donald Trump will start writing checks to prop up his flagging campaign funds. Whatever he does with his money, the guy’s certainly been writing a lot of checks with his mouth. This week in OtherWords, I explain...
