| Jan 24, 2018 | Roundup|UncategorizedWe’re fresh off a brief government shutdown, brought on in part by the president’s move, months ago, to revoke the DACA program that protects around 700,000 undocumented young people. This week in OtherWords, community college teacher Jill Richardson...
| Jan 17, 2018 | Roundup|UncategorizedThis week in OtherWords, we’re talking s—holes. That’s what President Trump recently called El Salvador, Haiti, and much of Africa, according to people who attended a meeting where he complained about immigrants from those places. Our cartoonist, Khalil...
| Jan 10, 2018 | Roundup|UncategorizedOprah for president? Some fans of the media mogul’s Golden Globes speech, which lifted up generations of women that have resisted racism and sexual assault, are already calling for a 2020 bid. Maybe they’re missing the point, Razan Azzarkani argues this...
| Dec 27, 2017 | Roundup|UncategorizedAre you struggling to get by on a mere $15 or $20 million? If so, my colleague Chuck Collins has good news for you: Congress is looking out for you and your heirs. Meanwhile, Jill Richardson shares a New Year’s resolution: to tell men directly when ...
| Dec 20, 2017 | Roundup|UncategorizedThis week we bring you holiday tidings, warm and grim alike. On the grim end, there’s that tax bill that looks likely to pass this week. We’ve written about that extensively (see a bunch of our pieces here), so we’ll give the last word now to...
| Dec 13, 2017 | Roundup|UncategorizedThis week saw Doug Jones beat Roy Moore, the accused serial sexual predator and GOP Senate candidate, in deep red Alabama. It was a narrow miss, but black voters and millennials helped Jones eek out a victory. Of course, it’s hard not to notice that a man also...