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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...

Not long ago, Donald Trump promised that his replacement for Obamacare would provide "insurance for everybody." But the latest numbers from the Congressional Budget Office say 24 million Americans would actually lose coverage under the Republican bill circulating...

Donald Trump has finally rolled out his proposal for how to spend our tax dollars. The short version? Lots more money for the military, lots of tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans, and less for pretty much everything else. This week in OtherWords, my colleagues Josh...

Last night, Donald Trump gave his first speech to a joint session of Congress. Many pundits have praised the speech for showcasing a more "moderate" approach than we're accustomed to from the president. But this week in OtherWords, I argue that it was anything but....

In the last week, critics of the Trump administration's appointees finally got a few scalps. First there was Michael Flynn, the national security adviser who was caught lying about his conversations with the Russian ambassador. OtherWords cartoonist Khalil Bendib...

As 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 the Midwest. Also this...

We'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 after...

The 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. It's hard for any...

This 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 that mind-boggling debate over...