| Aug 3, 2016 | Roundup|UncategorizedLike 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...
| Jul 27, 2016 | Roundup|UncategorizedIt’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....
| Jul 20, 2016 | Roundup|UncategorizedThis 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...
| Jul 13, 2016 | Roundup|UncategorizedOver 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...
| Jul 6, 2016 | Roundup|UncategorizedThis week in OtherWords, Daphne Wysham explains the terrifying reason environmental activists call oil trains “bomb trains” — and why she was willing to spend her honeymoon in jail to stop them. Elsewhere, Sam Pizzigati reports on the tricks big banks are...
