| Sep 24, 2013 |
| | Rights / DemocracyThere are some things I thought I’d never hear myself say. One of them is “Hip-hip hooray for Nixon!” That would give me a tongue cramp if I tried to say it about Tricky Dick, but this burst of praise goes out to the governor of Missouri, Jay Nixon....
| Sep 23, 2013 | Peace / SecurityThe flag positioned at half-mast was the only indication that anything had happened at all. American University was lush with early-autumn excitement and the quad was full of beginning-of-the-semester, carefree energy. There were no panicked email alerts, no worried...
| | Kathryn Cassibry is a former OtherWords intern at the Institute for Policy Studies.
| Sep 18, 2013 | Peace / SecurityBy divine intervention, Saul Landau entered my life 12 years ago and taught me how to write, film, and live with dignity. We instantly bonded over having fathers from the “old country” — his father from Ukraine, mine from Syria — and being Semites with...
