In OtherWords: March 27, 2019

In OtherWords: March 27, 2019

Late last week, the Mueller investigation reached its anticlimactic conclusion. In OtherWords, Khalil Bendib imagines Trump scratching Mueller off his enemies list. Jill Richardson argues that not being conclusively charged with one particular crime is hardly a...
In OtherWords: March 20, 2019

In OtherWords: March 20, 2019

The 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...
In OtherWords: March 13, 2019

In OtherWords: March 13, 2019

Medicare 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...
In OtherWords: March 6, 2019

In OtherWords: March 6, 2019

Is 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...
In OtherWords: February 27, 2019

In OtherWords: February 27, 2019

The 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...
In OtherWords: February 20, 2019

In OtherWords: February 20, 2019

President 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...