| Mar 20, 2019 | RoundupThe NCAA “March Madness” basketball tournament is already underway this week — an event that raises nearly $1 billion in revenues for a league whose athletes are entirely unpaid. This week in OtherWords, Brian Wakamo argues that...
| Mar 13, 2019 | RoundupMedicare for All, free higher education, higher taxes on the wealthiest — a raft of once marginal ideas increasingly define the U.S. mainstream. Yet a few dead-enders in Congress are issuing dire warnings about “socialism.” This week in OtherWords, Chuck...
| Mar 6, 2019 | RoundupIs it anti-semitic to question U.S. support for Israel? Many politicians seem to think so, judging by the manufactured controversy over critical remarks by Rep. Ilhan Omar. Sarah Gertler disagrees. This week in OtherWords, she shares stories about singing the Israeli...
| Feb 27, 2019 | RoundupThe Jussie Smollett story is truly strange. But as Gray Ndiaye shares in a personal story this week, false hate crime reports are vanishingly rare. In fact, official statistics — which under-count the real number — show a three-year rise in hate crimes of all...
| Feb 20, 2019 | RoundupPresident Trump has declared a “National Emergency” in a bid to free up funds to build a border wall. (Immediately after declaring it, he decamped for his Florida resort — where, cartoonist Khalil Bendib expects, he was waited on by undocumented...
| Feb 13, 2019 | RoundupFebruary is Black History Month. In this too-short observance month, Tracey L. Rogers takes a much longer view of the Black legacy in this country: an understanding of freedom that’s animated social movements for centuries. To build a country that’s free...
