| Oct 19, 2022 | RoundupJust weeks out of the midterms, inflation and immigration keep showing up atop the issues voters are most concerned about. Republicans appear set to benefit from both. But this week in OtherWords, I look at what experts are saying about the GOP’s approach to...
| Oct 12, 2022 | RoundupAn overwhelming majority of Americans now supports the legalization of cannabis, but hundreds of thousands are arrested for marijuana violations each year. President Biden recently pardoned all federal offenders charged with simple possession. That turns out to be a...
| Oct 5, 2022 | RoundupIn Jackson, Mississippi, some 150,000 people recently lost their access to clean water as filthy, foul-smelling sludge dripped from their taps. The shortage went on for two weeks, but it’s part of a much longer-running crisis in the city — and far beyond...
| Sep 28, 2022 | RoundupThis week in OtherWords, Shailly Gupta Barnes explains the remarkable drop in U.S. poverty last year. It’s no miracle, she writes — it’s the result of the federal government finally implementing common sense anti-poverty programs at scale. But with...
| Sep 14, 2022 | RoundupThis September, America lost a true giant of journalism and public conscience. This week in OtherWords, Sonali Kolhatkar remembers Barbara Ehrenreich — the Nickel and Dimed author whose work exposed not only how hard it had gotten to make it in America, but how...
| Sep 7, 2022 | RoundupThis fall, students are returning to school in the middle of yet another culture war attack on civil rights, liberties, and learning. As activists and lawmakers bully local school districts and libraries into banning books about LGBTQ people, racism, history, and...
