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Last week, Congress rejected President Obama's veto of the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act that will allow victims of the September 11 attacks to sue Saudi Arabia for their involvement. OtherWords cartoonist Khalil Bendib imagines what this law would look...

In the first presidential debate of 2016, Hillary Clinton was quick to bring up that "small" million-dollar loan Donald Trump borrowed from his father. And Trump, predictably, stood by his business acumen while understating the advantage of inheriting his father's...

Earlier this month, Hurricane Hermine became the first to make landfall in Florida since Hurricane Wilma in 2005. But in the meantime, the Atlantic region has been no stranger to storms of increasing intensity. Earth to climate deniers, these storms seem to be...

Following protests led by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, a federal order overruled a district judge's order, halting construction of the Dakota Access crude oil pipeline. The pipeline threatened to endanger both the tribe's sacred burial grounds and water supply from...

It's been more than 130 years since the first Labor Day was celebrated to honor the achievements of American workers. But not everyone got to enjoy a long weekend. In fact, it's low-wage workers who are the least likely to get paid time off. Martha Burk says we might...

Despite France's highest administrative court ruling that mayors don't have a right to ban the burkini, French mayors continue to crack down on the swimsuits designed for Muslim women. "If you don't want to live the way we do," one mayor said, "don't come." This week,...

It's that time of year again when parents are scrambling for last-minute deals on that long list of school supplies. But it's our schools that may not be prepared for the incoming of kids in the fall. This week, Scott Klinger says that public schools across the...

Here at OtherWords we've been running a series of pieces on racism in America's criminal justice system. But racial inequity in our country goes far deeper than the legal system — it's encoded into the economics of virtually every American household. This week,...

Like a lot of people, I was deeply moved when Khizr and Ghazala Khan mourned the loss of their son Humayan, a U.S. soldier who was killed in Iraq, in a speech at the Democratic convention. Humayan never would've been allowed into the country if Donald Trump had his...

It's officially general election season now that the two major parties have nominated their candidates for the 2016 presidential race. This week in OtherWords, our tax expert Josh Hoxie digs into the Republican convention and finds... not much to talk about. But taken...