Peter Certo
Editor-in-Chief at OtherWords
Editor-in-Chief at Foreign Policy In Focus
Editorial Manager at Institute for Policy Studies
editor, rust belt returnee. comms director at @ips_dc, still bad at twitter. personal account etc. etc.
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otherwords.org | Peter Certo
As a child, I felt so fancy when we used the purple food stamps — those were the pretty ones. We were a hardworking, loving family. My parents ensured we weren’t around anyone who tried to make us feel “less than” for needing help to make ends meet. That’s just reality in America.
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otherwords.org | Peter Certo
I recall seeing a sign in a yard in my small hometown of around 12,000 residents. “No matter where you are from,” it said, “we’re glad you are our neighbor.”It was positioned defiantly, facing a Trump sign that had been plunged into the neighbor’s yard across the street. It poignantly illustrated the tensions in my rural Ohio town, which — like many similar communities — has experienced a rapid influx of immigrants over the last 20 years. The sign’s sentiment was simple yet profound.
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otherwords.org | Peter Certo
Many of us start our morning with a cup of coffee (or several). It’s easy to take for granted. But where does it come from? Ethiopia is the birthplace of coffee, but it was first cultivated commercially in 15th century Yemen. In fact, the word “coffee” is derived from the Arabic qahwa, as Yemenis called it. And “mocha” originates from Yemen’s al-Mokha port, where coffee was first shipped. Coffee is just one of the countless contributions that Arab culture has brought to our everyday lives.
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fpif.org | Peter Certo
A great political memoir uses an individual story to humanize the dilemmas of fighting to remake the whole world. Such is the case with Walden Bello’s compelling new memoir, Global Battlefields. Throughout the book Bello dissects a central tension in his political life: the dance of ideas and action.
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1 week ago |
otherwords.org | Peter Certo
This week, Donald Trump hosted El Salvador’s authoritarian president Nayib Bukele in the Oval Office, where the two gleefully refused to release an innocent Maryland man the U.S. mistakenly — and illegally — kidnapped and deported to a brutal Salvadoran mega-prison. Trump even defied his own Supreme Court justices, who unanimously ordered the U.S. to “facilitate” the man’s release. We’ll have more to say about all that soon.
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chris murphy is right about a lot of stuff but the problem with the dems "big tent" is the party's base isn't in it
I went on Hasan Minhaj's show to talk about why Democrats need to be laser focused on winning elections instead of political purity. That means becoming a big tent party again, which is hard to handle for some. (fyi other parts of this interview are funny - this isn't one!) https://t.co/BzhGN4ER7s