| Jun 14, 2017 | Roundup|UncategorizedDoes your community celebrate Juneteenth? Officially observed on June 19 in at least 45 states, it commemorates the final end of slavery in this country, which didn’t come until another few years after the Emancipation Proclamation. This week in OtherWords,...
| May 31, 2017 | Roundup|UncategorizedDonald Trump is recently returned from his first trip overseas as president. Numerous gags from the trip made headlines — some sharp elbows during a photo op, a glowing orb. But a more serious moment occurred during Trump’s visit to Saudi Arabia, where he...
| May 24, 2017 | Roundup|UncategorizedIt’s commencement address season, which means it’s also the season for commencement protests. From the students who booed Betsy DeVos at Bethune-Cookman University to the ones who walked out of Mike Pence’s talk at Notre Dame, many graduating young...
| May 17, 2017 | Roundup|UncategorizedJim Comey — there’s a name you’ve probably heard this week. The former FBI director, recently fired by Donald Trump over his probe of the evolving “Russiagate” scandal, apparently recorded a memo detailing a conversation with Trump that...
| | Rights / DemocracyHow can you tell an authoritarian when you see one? We know the 20th century hallmarks — brown shirts, street rallies, and the like. But there’s an autocratic attitude, some historians suggest, that can easily be traced across the centuries. To put it simply, New York...
