| Dec 14, 2022 | RoundupAs Congress confronts a raft of lame duck priorities, Tom Conway says funding the fight against union busting needs to rise to the top of the pile. This week in OtherWords, the International Steelworkers Union president points out that funding for federal labor law...
| Dec 7, 2022 | RoundupLast night in Georgia, Democrats cemented a 51-vote Senate majority with the runoff re-election victory of Senator Raphael Warnock, who is also pastor of the Ebenezer Baptist Church once led by Martin Luther King, Jr. The news comes as Congress confronts a packed lame...
| Nov 30, 2022 | RoundupFrom Thanksgiving to Christmas, Hanukkah, and New Years, the holiday season can be a painful time for all families who’ve lost loved ones. This year alone, writes Ellen Glover, more than 108,000 people in this country have died from opioid overdoses — and each...
| Nov 16, 2022 | RoundupThe dust still hasn’t settled on this year’s midterm elections. But a week out, a few things seem clear: Republicans look poised to eke out a narrow House majority, but the “red wave” many predicted never materialized. What’s more, a...
| Nov 2, 2022 | RoundupThis year’s midterms arrive in the wake of another shocking act of political violence — the attempted kidnapping of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and attempted murder of her husband Paul, by an apparently far-right extremist. This week in OtherWords,...
| Oct 26, 2022 | RoundupThis week in OtherWords, veteran attorney Mitchell Zimmerman takes note of this year’s political rhetoric about crime and wonders: What’s actually going on? It could be easy to miss, Mitchell notes, that many violent crimes are actually down so far this...
