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In OtherWords: February 8, 2017
We've got a good one for you this week. For starters, my colleague Domenica Ghanem offers a lovely personal story about growing up Muslim in a small, mostly Catholic town in New Jersey (which had an actual Red, White, and Blueberry festival every year). But after...
In OtherWords: February 2, 2017
The executive orders keep coming, hirings and firings are shuffling up the professional civil service, and Trump's various appointments are barreling toward Washington. If it seems like a lot, Jill Richardson argues this week, maybe that's the point. It's hard for any...
In OtherWords: January 25, 2017
This side of Donald Trump's inauguration, the headlines are coming quickly. We've seen cabinet nominee hearings, a flurry of controversial executive orders, and a record-setting Women's March on Washington and beyond. There's also that mind-boggling debate over...
In OtherWords: January 18, 2016
The bizarre week leading up to inauguration was a strangely fitting one. There were new allegations of Russian meddling with Trump, salacious new allegations about the billionaire's private life, and ever more speculation about foreign intrigue. But if the new...
In OtherWords: January 11, 2017
In our first OtherWords package of 2017, Sarah Anderson celebrates some good news: Here in Washington, even while national leaders dug in their heels against paid sick time for families, local small business owners helped bring paid leave to the nation's capital. Also...
In OtherWords: December 28, 2016
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...
In OtherWords: December 21, 2016
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...
In OtherWords: December 14, 2016
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...
In OtherWords: December 7, 2016
Dear _____, Another week, another round of headlines from Trump's transition picks. This week in OtherWords, my colleague Josh Hoxie examines some of the next administration's key economic advisers and finds something startling: They're exactly the kind of Wall Street...
In OtherWords: November 23, 2016
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...
