In OtherWords: October 3, 2018

In OtherWords: October 3, 2018

Will Christine Blasey Ford’s riveting testimony — and a subsequent FBI investigation — have any impact on whether Senate Republicans confirm Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court? This week in OtherWords, veteran attorney Mitchell Zimmerman says Ford’s...
In OtherWords: September 26, 2018

In OtherWords: September 26, 2018

As Brett Kavanaugh prepares to face credible allegations of sexual assault before the Senate, the pressure is rising on Christine Blasey Ford and the other women who’ve leveled the accusations. Ford, it’s reported, had to leave her home to escape death...
In OtherWords: September 19, 2018

In OtherWords: September 19, 2018

Christine Blasey Ford has reportedly had to move out of her house since she accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her. Why? Because she’s getting death threats. While some critics wonder why she didn’t publicly disclose the...
In OtherWords: September 12, 2018

In OtherWords: September 12, 2018

Rent in almost any American city is expensive, but it’s really ballooned in a handful of coastal cities. t’s not just higher housing demand and jobs driving the increase, my colleague Chuck Collins finds in a new report. In many places, wealthy people are...
In OtherWords: September 5, 2018

In OtherWords: September 5, 2018

This week, Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh goes before the Senate for grilling, and it’s already been quite a scene. In this week’s newsletter, we round up some of our work on the controversial nominee — including for what his appointment might mean...
In OtherWords: August 29, 2018

In OtherWords: August 29, 2018

This week, Jill Richardson encourages us to imagine our economy as a game of Monopoly — something she often has her own community college students do. It turns out that when you rig Monopoly the way our real economy is rigged, the game ends almost immediately. Is that...