| Apr 13, 2022 | RoundupThis 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...
| Apr 6, 2022 | RoundupWe’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...
| Mar 29, 2022 | RoundupThis week in OtherWords, Robert P. Alvarez takes stock of the disastrous new voting law in Texas, which saw nearly 20 percent of mail-in votes in some counties get rejected in the recent primary there. Even worse, Robert cautions, similar laws are being pushed in...
| Mar 23, 2022 | RoundupThis month marks the second anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic here in the United States. In many ways, writes Domenica Ghanem this week in OtherWords, the virus changed life in unimaginable ways. But in our politics, things haven’t changed nearly enough. As...
| Mar 16, 2022 | RoundupThis week, the world is reeling from more dire images from Ukraine, where the Russian bombardment of civilian population centers has only increased, along with a steady stream of refugees fleeing for their lives. In recent weeks, my IPS colleagues have written about...
| Mar 9, 2022 | RoundupAs anyone who’s filled up their gas tank recently knows, spiraling prices for everything from gas to groceries have taken a real bite out of Americans’ wallets. So what’s going on? The pandemic is certainly part of it. So is fallout from...
