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The Human Cost of Trump’s Muslim Ban
Legal challenges to Donald Trump's "Muslim ban" are mounting. Federal judges have suspended the order, which blocks immigration from seven Muslim-majority countries and suspends refugee settlement from everywhere, while federal cases wind their way through the courts....
The End of an Alliance for Police Reform
In July 2016, then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch committed the Department of Justice to investigating the shooting of Alton Sterling, a black man who was murdered by police outside a convenience store in Baton Rouge. The move represented the deepening of a tangible...
American Hellscape
In case you were wondering what Republicans have planned for the environment, it's now clear. Some of the ideas aren't new — like mining and logging our national forests. Or giving the green light to controversial oil pipelines like the Dakota Access Pipeline, which...
The Banksters Are Free at Last
Of all the people suffering economic pain today, who should get priority attention from the new president and Congress? Regular folks in our country might say that those on the lower rungs of the economic ladder — the poor and downtrodden working class — ought to be...
Attila the Trump
In OtherWords: February 8, 2017
We've got a good one for you this week. For starters, my colleague Domenica Ghanem offers a lovely personal story about growing up Muslim in a small, mostly Catholic town in New Jersey (which had an actual Red, White, and Blueberry festival every year). But after...
Get to Know Your Muslim Neighbors
For a South Jersey girl, my upbringing was markedly ordinary. I played soccer. I joined student council. I walked to my Sicilian grandmother’s house every day after school. And just like everyone else in my small town of Hammonton, my summer revolved around...
Trump’s Phony Populism on Military Spending
There’s a lot of misdirection going on these days. Anybody whose head hasn't been spinning over the last couple of weeks has probably been in a nice news blackout somewhere. We’ll all need some strategies if we're going to stay sane. One is making sure that in the...
Trump’s Bad Deal on Trade
Candidate Donald Trump promised to renegotiate free trade agreements that hurt American workers. In his first week in office, he made good on that promise by withdrawing from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a trade pact negotiated by the Obama administration. Yet...
Trump’s Supreme Court Pick Would Leave All of Us Vulnerable
One of the primary purposes of the U.S. Constitution is to establish justice. It’s right there in the opening words: "We the people, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice…" It’s our Supreme Court that has the responsibility of safeguarding our...
