| Oct 18, 2023 | RoundupThe latest violence in Israel and Gaza started with a horrific terrorist attack that killed over a thousand innocent Israelis. And as Middle East expert Phyllis Bennis writes, now it’s millions of innocent Gazans who are at risk as Israel bombs and besieges the...
| Oct 11, 2023 | RoundupThis week in OtherWords, we’ve got two more strong pieces on the structural causes of poverty to complement our issue from last week. First, Amy Adams riffs on Jason Aldean’s controversial country song, “Try That in a Small Town.” It’s...
| Oct 4, 2023 | RoundupThis week, we continue our look into structural causes of poverty, the employers who profit off it, and the workers trying to make ends meet. Shailly Gupta Barnes, a poverty expert and policy director at the Kairos Center, unpacks new poverty data and explains that...
| Sep 27, 2023 | RoundupFew things in politics can feel more frustrating than watching policymakers fail or refuse to tackle the climate crisis or hold its perpetrators accountable. But maybe there’s another way. This week in OtherWords, Farrah Hassen writes about the rise of the...
| Sep 20, 2023 | RoundupAs the days tick down on the hottest summer in recorded history, Washington is gearing up for yet another budget fight and potential shutdown. The two events are connected, although not perhaps in the way they should be. As my colleagues Lindsay Koshgarian and Alliyah...
| Sep 13, 2023 | RoundupNew federal poverty numbers are in and the news isn’t great. The Supplemental Poverty Measure saw a record jump just one year after posting a record low. What happened? It’s simple, poverty expert Lakeisha McVey explains. The government implemented some...
