| Jun 23, 2021 | RoundupA vote to advance the For the People Act in the Senate just failed to clear an all-Republican filibuster, even as the bill got the 50 votes it should have needed to pass. This week in OtherWords, I explain how the arcane filibuster is endangering our democracy. Also...
| Jun 16, 2021 | RoundupThis month marks the 50th anniversary of the war on drugs, an institution so ingrained that many of us grew up without ever realizing it was a policy choice. But even after five decades of gargantuan investments in policing, penalties, and prisons, fatal drug...
| Jun 9, 2021 | RoundupIn northern Minnesota this week, tensions are coming to a head over the Enbridge Line 3 pipeline — the latest pipeline project, like the Keystone XL and Dakota Access Pipelines before it, to unite indigenous people’s movements with environmentalists in...
| Jun 2, 2021 | RoundupWhile partisan deadlock over infrastructure spending grips Congress, big ideas are moving ahead elsewhere. As Sarah Anderson reports this week, there’s a potentially historic new resolution in Congress now that lays out a real plan to end poverty — and its...
| May 26, 2021 | RoundupMore than half of all Americans have gotten at least one COVID-19 vaccine dose. Nearly 40 percent are full vaccinated. But there’s another big group — about 30 million of us — who say they want to get the vaccine but haven’t been able to. This...
| May 19, 2021 | RoundupAs the latest Israeli assault on Gaza continues, we offer two perspectives from writers who’ve visited the region. Jill Richardson, whose upbringing was Jewish, visited Israel with her family as a teenager. Tracey L. Rogers, a racial justice advocate in the...
