| Mar 5, 2025 | RoundupIn the first State of the Union-style address of his second term, Donald Trump spent several minutes advancing falsehoods about Social Security — an ominous sign of things to come, says Social Security Works president Nancy J. Altman. “The last few weeks...
| Feb 27, 2025 | RoundupAs communities across the country rebuild from climate disasters, one question looms large: Who pays for it? Many insurance companies, Kelsey Condon notes, have an answer: Not us! From burned out California neighborhoods to flooded communities in Iowa and the...
| Feb 20, 2025 | RoundupAlready under this new administration, tens of thousands of federal workers have lost their jobs or been strong-armed into accepting buyouts, a trend that shows no sign of slowing as unelected billionaire bureaucrat Elon Musk wages war on our taxpayer-funded civil...
| Feb 12, 2025 | RoundupAs the Trump team tries to “flood the zone” with executive orders and off-the-walls pronouncements, we’re slowing down a bit to look in more detail at the communities behind these headlines. This week in OtherWords, Alliyah Lusuegro — a Dreamer...
| Feb 5, 2025 | RoundupUnder pressure from the administration, many federal agencies have canceled their Black History Month celebrations this year. As Tracey L. Rogers writes this week in OtherWords, this fits right in with a years-long pattern now of banning books by Black authors,...
| Jan 29, 2025 | RoundupHas it really only been a week and a half? This week — yesterday, really — the Trump administration threw the entire federal government into chaos by trying to freeze an enormous swath of federal spending before public outcry and a court ruling forced them...
