By Farrah Hassen | ( Otherwords.org ) – In the wealthiest country on the planet, too many people still lack access to housing. The pandemic revealed the full extent of the U.S. housing crisis. Where were the roughly 580,000 people living unhoused in 2020 to go under “stay at home” orders? And what about those […]
Extremists Want to Ban Discussing Their Abortion Bans
By Jim Hightower | ( Otherwords.org) – Unfortunately, it’s 1984 again in America. Not the year. The book. George Orwell’s classic novel tells of a far-right totalitarian clique that uses “newspeak” and “doublethink” to impose their rigid, anti-democratic doctrine on society. Their regime held power through mind control — they had a “Ministry of […]
For Racial Justice, End Legacy Admissions in Universities, a form of Affirmative Action for the Rich
By Sonali Kolhatkar | ( Otherwords ) – Who will benefit from the Supreme Court’s recent ruling striking down race as a factor in college admissions? Mostly, just wealthy white people. That’s because the ruling refused to touch so-called “legacy admissions.” Colleges are free to continue giving preferential treatment to the children of alumni, donors, […]
To Stop Global Heating, Cut Military Spending
By Alliyah Lusuegro | ( Otherwords.org ) – Not long ago, I couldn’t step outside my home without pulling on my KN95 mask. As smoke from wildfires in Canada sweeps in waves across the U.S., tens of millions of Americans from the East Coast to the Midwest find themselves living under severe air quality advisories. […]
Being “Woke” is an American Value
By Jim Hightower | ( Otherwords.org) – As Scottish literary giant Robert Burns wrote, “The best-laid schemes of mice and men / Go oft awry.” His 1785 poem, titled “To A Mouse,” could be directed today at the right-wing sloganeers who’ve been scheming so furiously to turn their hokey “woke” snobbery into a winning political […]
Anti-Trans Politicians Are Following the Nazi Playbook
By Mitchell Zimmerman ( Otherwords ) – The 1920s were both good and bad times for the Jews of Germany. They’d been granted the same legal rights as other Germans and were established in respected professions. They were mostly treated as worthy of dignity. But that changed as antisemites scapegoated Jews for all of Germany’s […]
Not a Flood, not a Surge, not Illegal: Retire This Dehumanizing Language About Immigrants
By By Daniella Prieshoff ( Otherwords.org ) – Last year, my client Susan called me to discuss her immigration case. During our conversation she referenced the news that immigrants were being bused from the southern border to cities in the North, often under false promises, only to be left stranded in an unknown city. In […]
Is it Time for Supreme Court Term Limits?
By Sonali Kolhatkar ( Otherwords) – A pair of new investigative reports about Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas are a testament to the need for better guard rails against moneyed influence. The first bombshell story from ProPublica highlighted how a billionaire named Harlan Crow befriended Thomas after he became a Supreme Court justice and treated […]
Trump’s Al Capone Moment
By Mitchell Zimmerman | ( Otherwords.org) – The Prohibition Era mobster and thug Alphonse “Al” Capone comes to mind as we see the man who incited the January 2021 Capitol insurrection, among other misdeeds, finally face a criminal charge: falsifying business records. Al Capone was the boss of a murderous Chicago criminal enterprise that […]
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