Locals in the nation's capital helped win one of the country's most generous family and medical leave plans. otherwords.org/great-news-for…

If you’re against #immigrants, you’re against my grandma otherwords.org/if-youre-again…

Many are on the hunt for their Black family history. otherwords.org/the-hunt-for-b… via @MandisaRoutheni

A century and a half before Trump's refugee ban, cities like Boston rebelled against the Fugitive Slave Act. otherwords.org/cities-can-fig…

Sometimes it's good when the feds pick winners and losers — especially when polluters lose and the rest of us win. otherwords.org/regulations-ca…

Big-money speculators are buying up farms, and boxing young, real farmers out of the market. otherwords.org/wall-street-so…

Throwing money at the Pentagon while gutting other programs that protect Americans shouldn't make anyone feel safer. otherwords.org/getting-that-s…

New study suggests the gap between men and women won't close till 2059 — unless cities and states try this new fix. otherwords.org/a-new-way-to-c…

Jeff Sessions thinks pot is as bad as heroin. If that were true, maybe my little brother would be alive. otherwords.org/jeff-sessions-…

Our "deal-maker" president isn't nearly as good as getting things done as he proclaimed.

Let’s face it, the coal industry is a job killer. otherwords.org/lets-face-it-t…

Defunding Planned Parenthood could cause a national health crisis for low-income women — and men, too. otherwords.org/womens-health-…

Turns out corn farmers south of the border know more about trade than the U.S. president. otherwords.org/how-mexican-fa…

If Washington won’t rein in corporate greed, your state Might. otherwords.org/if-washington-… via @Anderson_IPS #CEOpay

Americans repay our veterans poorly if we don't use our freedoms to question our wars. otherwords.org/what-we-can-le…

Making breakthroughs for consumers is hard, companies have found. But making fortunes for CEOs is easy. otherwords.org/companies-can-…

Two conglomerates control 90 percent of the beer market, and that's costing you bucks. otherwords.org/stop-the-buzz-… via Chuck Collins

If the president's tax plan passes, it'll be like he's cutting himself a check from the Treasury. otherwords.org/trumps-tax-pla…

We can't stop sexual violence until we understand how very mundane it is. #MeToo otherwords.org/me-too-and-you…