By Domenica Ghanem | ( Otherwords.org ) – President Joe Biden has repealed the Muslim ban. As the news rolled in, I remembered how I felt four years ago, when the Trump administration first announced its intention to ban people from from several Muslim-majority countries from entering the country. The feeling wasn’t incredulity. I distinctly […]
Preventing Future Election Violence: Peacebuilding to avoid becoming a failed state
By Kerri Kennedy | – ( Otherwords.org ) – I have spent my entire career working to end election-related conflicts, mostly overseas. Unfortunately, this experience is now increasingly relevant at home. Ahead of the Capitol insurrection, the U.S. met several criteria that increased the likelihood of election violence: pay-to-pay politics, weak electoral management bodies, ongoing […]
Dreamers Deserve a Path to Citizenship
By Diana Anahi Torres-Valverde | – ( Otherwords.org ) – DACA changed my life. But after four years of fear, it’s clear that undocumented young people need more protection. By Diana Anahi Torres-Valverde | December 21, 2020 I grew up undocumented in America. As a kid, I often saw little hope for the future in […]
What President-Elect Biden and all Americans owe the Black Voters who Saved our Democracy
By Tracey L. Rogers | – ( Otherwoods.org) – Black voters waited in 10-hour lines to show up for Joe Biden. Now Biden needs to return the favor. During a pandemic that has killed Black people at disproportionate rates, we still managed to save our democracy by getting out the vote in what may have […]
Republicans Aren’t Just Bad Losers — They’re Traitors to Democracy
By Mitchell Zimmerman | – Trump’s insidious rhetoric on the election won’t stop Biden from taking office, but it’s not harmless either. ( Otherwords.org) – Donald Trump’s refusal to accept the judgment of the American people might just seem like denial. But in denying the legitimacy of over 77 million votes against him, Trump and […]
Make This Election About Health Care
By Elaine Shelly | – (Otherwords.org ) – There should only be one America: one where we all get the best care and the widest range of choices. By Elaine Shelly | October 28, 2020 My mother is a Black woman. But when I had to place her in nursing home care in 2016, I […]
Amy Coney Barrett Has No Business Ruling on This Election
By Rev. Susan K. Smith ( Otherwords.org ) – Well before Amy Coney Barrett was nominated to the United States Supreme Court, every step in the frenzied process had seemed terribly amiss. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and his party are playing by two sets of rules, ramming through Donald Trump’s nomination to fill a […]
How Trump gave $1 bn allocated for Masks for Troops, Families, to Arms Firms Instead
By Phyllis Bennis | – (Foreign Policy in Focus) – As the pandemic continues to claim lives across the country, new information keeps coming out about how the Trump administration has made it harder for Americans to protect themselves. We now know, for example, that early in the pandemic the U.S. Postal Service had planned […]
Ginsburg Would Want Women to Fight, Not Despair
By Sophia Paslaski | – (Otherwords.org ) – The late justice dedicated her career to women and other marginalized Americans, and we owe her the same faith she had in us. By Sophia Paslaski | September 23, 2020 In August 1993, the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg took her seat on the U.S. Supreme Court. I […]
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