‘Pro-Family’ Homophobia Rips Families Apart
Happy LGBTQIA Pride Month! … is not what the Trump White House is saying this June. Instead, LGBTQIA Americans are being acknowledged by the government in the form of a Supreme Court ruling allowing a...
View ArticleSpeak Loudly and Carry a Limp Twig
It’s been pointed out that Donald Trump has unusually small hands… but who cares? What’s truly alarming are his unusually small policy ideas. Draining the swamp, for example. He bragged that he’d be...
View ArticleKing Donald’s Final Solution
Khalil Bendib / OtherWords.org The post King Donald’s Final Solution appeared first on OtherWords. This piece was reprinted from Other Words by RINF Alternative News with permission. The post King...
View ArticleIn OtherWords: June 13, 2018
This week saw the historic, unlikely meeting of a U.S. president and a leader of North Korea — a moment that felt less likely than nuclear war only a few months ago. In OtherWords, Lindsay Koshgarian...
View ArticleTrump’s Giving Diplomacy a Chance. His Critics Should, Too.
Some critics have knocked President Trump for making “too many concessions” to North Korean leader Kim Jong-un at the historic Singapore Summit — the first-ever meeting between a U.S. president and...
View ArticleOther Countries Expect More of Their Leaders. So Should We.
Are we Americans unworthy? That’s certainly the message we’re getting from our government. Over 40 percent of us are poor or low-income. How is that possible in the wealthiest country in history? “The...
View ArticlePardons Aren’t Policy
Before all the North Korea news hit, the last few weeks seemed to show another surprising turnaround for President Trump: some sympathy for criminal justice reform. After a visit from Kim Kardashian,...
View ArticleJust How Rich are the Ultra Rich?
Nearly seven years ago — I know, wow — the Occupy Wall Street movement began highlighting the divide between the top 1 percent and the bottom 99 percent. Since then, it’s become common knowledge that...
View ArticleCorruption Is Bad, But Sabotage Is Worse
Did you hear that the head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Scott Pruitt, is so corrupt that he spent $1,560 on 12 customized fountain pens? Or that he spent another $43,000 on a...
View ArticleIs Trump Giving Amazon the Postal Service?
The U.S. postal system has 30,000 outlets serving every part of America. It employs 630,000 people in good middle-class jobs. And it proudly delivers letters and packages clear across the country for a...
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