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It's commencement address season, which means it's also the season for commencement protests. From the students who booed Betsy DeVos at Bethune-Cookman University to the ones who walked out of Mike Pence's talk at Notre Dame, many graduating young people are making...

Jim Comey — there's a name you've probably heard this week. The former FBI director, recently fired by Donald Trump over his probe of the evolving "Russiagate" scandal, apparently recorded a memo detailing a conversation with Trump that troubled him. The president,...

Donald Trump fired FBI director Jim Comey this week — that much, of course, is headline news everywhere. One more detail, though: He reportedly did so at the urging of Attorney General Jeff Sessions. Many speculate that the administration wanted to cut off Comey's...

This week in OtherWords, Josh Hoxie looks beyond the headlines at the myths behind inequality in our country. Is it because some people just don't work as hard? Or is it because we're all starting at different places? It's the latter, he says. Which means telling...

This week's OtherWords package falls between two huge marches on Washington, along with hundreds of other communities. Last Saturday, Earth Day, the Science March brought hundreds of thousands of scientists and their supporters into the streets in perhaps the first...

Are you excited for graduation season? If you're one of the 7 in 10 grads who's starting adult life with an average of $37,000 in student debt, this exciting time can be more nerve-wracking than anything. Over 44 million Americans owe student debt, Chuck Collins...

It's almost Tax Day — have you paid your fair share? If you're a Wall Street bank, probably not. This week in OtherWords, my colleague Sarah Anderson reveals how big banks use legal loopholes to get around paying their full tax bill. And she proposes a surprisingly...

This week, the Senate votes on Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch. Several weeks back, we ran a piece by People for the American Way's Michael Keegan (read it here, if you missed it then) on the corporate-friendly line he expected Gorsuch to take on the bench. This...

This week, flanked by coal miners, Donald Trump announced plans to reverse the Obama administration's Clean Power Plan. Trump has blamed that signature Obama climate initiative for the loss of coal jobs, but as Jill Richardson points out this week, it hasn't even gone...

House Republicans are racing ahead with their plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. This week in OtherWords, we take a look at one of the less covered aspects of the GOP plan: its impact on America's devastating opioid crisis. My hometown of Dayton, Ohio...