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Here at the end of the year, I hope you'll pardon me for a longer than usual intro note. (Don't worry, you can still skip ahead to the commentaries below.) If there was anything that defined 2016 — besides the passing of beloved celebrities and the rise of Donald...

It's giving season, which means we're probably going to see some headlines soon about major year-end gifts from prominent billionaires and millionaires. Those gifts often make for heartwarming stories, my colleague Chuck Collins writes this week in OtherWords. But...

America's post-election hangover took a major turn for the dramatic this past week, when sources told the Washington Post that the CIA believes Russia intervened in the vote to help Donald Trump. The jury's still out on the truth of the matter, but this week in...

It's been a tumultuous week of news, as details of Donald Trump's transition team and agenda trickle out. A key item on the chopping block is the Affordable Care Act. Among many other things, its repeal could leave millions of women without access to affordable birth...

This week in OtherWords, we're still processing the election results and what they mean for the years to come. A few of our writers even managed to find some silver linings. Jim Hightower, for example, notes that many progressive candidates and issues — like minimum...

Donald Trump shocked the world this week with his stunning victory over Hillary Clinton. While Trump's polling was competitive with the former secretary of state's from the beginning, few imagined that his coalition was broad enough to triumph on Election Day. No...

This week in OtherWords, in our last package before Election Day, our writers take a hard look at the shape of our democracy. Amid the bruising last days, marked by yet new hysteria over Hillary Clinton's emails and yet more negative headlines for Donald Trump, our...

Hundreds of protestors at Standing Rock have been arrested, and the Sioux tribe has asked the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate abuses by police officers against those blocking the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline. OtherWords cartoonist Khalil Bendib...

Weeks into the largest national prison strike in our history, the U.S Department of Justice has opened an investigation into Alabama prison conditions. It promises to look into claims of human rights abuses from sexual assault by correctional officers to unsanitary...