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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...

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...