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President Trump gave his first official State of the Union address last night. Under the bipartisan facades, there were some familiar hardline demands — especially on immigration and the military. This week in OtherWords, I parse the Trump-GOP line on immigration and...

We'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 explains how that...

This 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 Bendib,...

Are 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  they're acting...

This 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 cartoonist Khalil Bendib....

This 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 accused...

This past week, the Senate passed the GOP tax bill we've been railing against for weeks at OtherWords. (Clearly many senators need to read better op-eds.) This week, we pile on some more: Jim Hightower explains that this bill is really, really bad for you if you make...

As you sit down for Thanksgiving dinner, do you wonder at all about what's in the food you're serving your family? There's a good chance part of your spread includes GMOs with a side of pesticides. Some genetically modified foods may be beneficial, but others may have...

As a major tax overhaul moves closer to a vote in Congress, we're taking another deep dive into what's in it. This week in OtherWords, Chuck Collins says forget all the talk about "who wins" and "who loses" – that's just fancy packaging for a bill which, at root,...