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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...

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...