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This week, Donald Trump officially accepts the Republican Party's nomination for president. The party's convention in Cleveland has produced a batch of headlines that, like a lot of general election news these days, seems likely to inspire a spike in Google searches...

Over a century and a half ago, Roger Taney — the chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court — wrote in the infamous Dred Scott decision that black Americans had "no rights which the white man was bound to respect." This week in OtherWords, Ebony Slaughter-Johnson looks...

Shortly before last week's shocking Brexit vote, a British member of parliament campaigning for the "remain" camp was brutally murdered. What you might not have heard was that the alleged killer was linked to neo-Nazi group here in the United States. And that, Jim...

A big question in Washington this week is whether Donald Trump will start writing checks to prop up his flagging campaign funds. Whatever he does with his money, the guy's certainly been writing a lot of checks with his mouth. This week in OtherWords, I explain why...

"I feel angry and heartbroken" after the massacre in Orlando, writes transgender teen activist Grace Dolan-Sandrino this week in OtherWords. But even as a culture of fear and bigotry descends on our country, "we’re stronger than you think." I hope you won't miss...

After this week's primaries in California and New Jersey, Hillary Clinton looks to have finally sewn up the Democratic nomination for president. While important debates will continue inside the Democratic Party over foreign policy, money in politics, and other issues,...

Donald Trump, the presumptive GOP nominee for president, has called climate change a Chinese-orchestrated "hoax" — except along the one Irish beach where he happens to own a luxury golf course and hotel. There, Janet Redman writes this week, one of Trump's companies...

Sometimes it's helpful to take a long view. This week in OtherWords, Sam Pizzigati reports on a new satellite NASA is developing that will be capable of spotting "a bug in space." So why, he wonders, can't the feds find the affluent tax cheats who illegally dodge over...

The month of May marks college graduation season. This year, graduates are entering the job market with an average $37,000 worth of debt — the most of any class ever. This week in OtherWords, Chuck Collins looks at one reason college costs have risen so high: States...