| Feb 15, 2017 | Roundup|UncategorizedAs Donald Trump’s so-called “Muslim ban” languishes in the courts, we’re continuing our coverage of its impacts. This week, Jody Mashek shares what’s she learned about the human costs of the order through her work with refugee families in...
| Feb 8, 2017 | Roundup|UncategorizedWe’ve got a good one for you this week. For starters, my colleague Domenica Ghanem offers a lovely personal story about growing up Muslim in a small, mostly Catholic town in New Jersey (which had an actual Red, White, and Blueberry festival every year). But...
| Feb 1, 2017 | Roundup|UncategorizedThe executive orders keep coming, hirings and firings are shuffling up the professional civil service, and Trump’s various appointments are barreling toward Washington. If it seems like a lot, Jill Richardson argues this week, maybe that’s the point....
| Jan 25, 2017 | Roundup|UncategorizedThis side of Donald Trump’s inauguration, the headlines are coming quickly. We’ve seen cabinet nominee hearings, a flurry of controversial executive orders, and a record-setting Women’s March on Washington and beyond. There’s also...
| Jan 18, 2017 | Roundup|UncategorizedThe bizarre week leading up to inauguration was a strangely fitting one. There were new allegations of Russian meddling with Trump, salacious new allegations about the billionaire’s private life, and ever more speculation about foreign intrigue. But if the new...
| Jan 11, 2017 | Roundup|UncategorizedIn our first OtherWords package of 2017, Sarah Anderson celebrates some good news: Here in Washington, even while national leaders dug in their heels against paid sick time for families, local small business owners helped bring paid leave to the nation’s...
