| Jul 25, 2018 | RoundupJuly 30 marks the 53rd anniversary of Medicare and Medicaid, the iconic health programs that have kept millions of Americans out of poverty — and alive — for over half a century now. But it’s a grim birthday, Martha Burk writes, because Republicans have rolled...
| Jul 18, 2018 | RoundupPresident Trump took a rocky trip to Europe this week — first calling longtime European allies “foes” and then openly contradicting U.S. intelligence on Russia while seated next to Vladimir Putin (something Khalil Bendib illustrates rather colorfully in...
| Jul 11, 2018 | RoundupThis week, President Trump tapped Brett Kavanaugh to join the Supreme Court. If that nomination goes ahead, it could threaten the 45-year-old Roe v. Wade ruling, which most famously protects access to legal abortion in the United States. But, as Olivia Alperstein...
| Jul 4, 2018 | RoundupAmericans are heading into the July 4 holiday after a beleaguering few weeks of news from the border and beyond. This week in OtherWords, Fizz Perkal argues that ICE was established to make people safe, but has turned instead to terrorizing vulnerable people who pose...
| Jun 27, 2018 | RoundupThis week, the Supreme Court ripped apart unions, held up the Muslim ban, and endorsed deeply gerrymandered congressional districts. These are all deeply undemocratic rulings, upheld by a deeply undemocratic system, I argue this week — and it’s about to get...
| Jun 20, 2018 | RoundupOutrage over the Trump administration’s family separation policy has reached a fever pitch, leading to early reports that Trump himself may soon sign an order agreeing to end it — which would be a major victory for movements that have mobilized to stop the...
