| Mar 28, 2024 | RoundupIn their own ways, both major parties are setting up to make immigration a centerpiece of their 2024 campaigns. Republicans have raised hysteria about immigrants and the border, while Democrats — and especially President Biden — have blasted Republicans...
| Mar 21, 2024 | RoundupHappy first week of spring from all of us at OtherWords. We’re taking a brief op-ed pause to dust off some proverbial cobwebs, but we’ve rounded up some of our favorite columns from the last few weeks of winter that we think are worth another look. And...
| Mar 13, 2024 | RoundupPresident Biden devoted a lot of words at his State of the Union last week to fairness. He called for higher taxes on the wealthy and corporations, who saw plummeting rates under the last administration’s tax cuts, and condemned runaway CEO pay. This week, we...
| Mar 7, 2024 | RoundupThis week, President Biden will give his final State of the Union address before the 2024 election, while former President Trump looks to have the GOP nomination sewn up following the Super Tuesday primaries. Campaign season, in short, is about to descend on us for...
| Feb 28, 2024 | RoundupWomen’s History Month starts March 1. And this year’s is likely to be politically charged. As Martha Burk writes this week, in recent decades the politics of gender, feminism, and health care have been characterized to a significant extent by a...
| Feb 21, 2024 | RoundupThis week, in the latest of our series on the affordability crisis, Farrah Hassen looks at the rising cost of housing. More Americans were reported homeless last year than any other, Farrah reports, and new research ties rising homelessness to the rising cost of...
