In OtherWords: May 11, 2022

In OtherWords: May 11, 2022

This week, we continue our coverage of the fallout from an expected Supreme Court decision to overrule Roe v. Wade. Mitchell Zimmerman highlights one grimly predictable result: more dead mothers — whether from politicians interfering with people’s health...
In OtherWords: May 4, 2022

In OtherWords: May 4, 2022

This week, a leaked draft opinion confirmed that the Supreme Court’s right-wing members are ready to overturn Roe v. Wade — and with it, half a century of previously settled law. This will be an extremely damaging ruling, Olivia Alperstein explains this...
In OtherWords: April 27, 2022

In OtherWords: April 27, 2022

Editors, before you read: Please take our one-minute editor survey now if you haven’t already. It helps us keep OtherWords 100 percent free to use. Thank you! This week, we offer another first-person perspective on the anti-LGBTQ laws that are sweeping the statehouses...
In OtherWords: April 20, 2022

In OtherWords: April 20, 2022

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In OtherWords: April 13, 2022

In OtherWords: April 13, 2022

This week, as the U.S. pandemic death toll creeps ever closer toward 1 million, Karen Dolan reports on a stunning new study from the Poor People’s Campaign. They found that Americans in poorer U.S. counties died at nearly double the rate of Americans in richer...
In OtherWords: April 6, 2022

In OtherWords: April 6, 2022

We’re off this week while we tend to some institutional housekeeping, but please enjoy a new cartoon from Khalil Bendib, which pairs nicely with Lindsay Koshgarian’s excellent recent op-ed on why hiking military spending at this moment is actually a bad...