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It Turns Out People Can Be Persuasive When They’re High
I’m fairly certain she’s a “yes” on legalization. (Flickr/Jonathan Piccolo) The Pew Research Center has a new poll out on marijuana legalization, and in many ways it’s about what you’d expect if you’ve been paying attention to public opinion on this topic lately. Overall support for legalization is at 53 percent, and young people are […]
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Raising Wages From the Bottom Up
Three ways city and state governments can make the difference.
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Why Republicans Are Getting So Spooked On Gay Rights
As I wrote yesterday on some other magazine’s web site, the conservative argument on gay rights has gone from “It’s not you, it’s me” to “It’s not me, it’s them.” After abandoning moral condemnation of gayness, the opponents of gay rights insisted that the problem wasn’t gay people themselves, it was that straight people, confronted […]
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Why the Newly Amended Indiana RFRA Is a Real—But Only Partial—Victory
View image | gettyimages.com Indiana Senate President Pro Tem David Long speaks as House Speaker Brian Bosma (R) looks on during a press conference about anti-discrimination safeguards added to the controversial Religious Freedom Restoration Act at the State Capitol April 2, 2015, in Indianapolis, Indiana. They look pretty psyched, don’t they? The Republican leadership in […]
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Marco Rubio Gets Surprisingly Specific on Indiana
View image | gettyimages.com If you’ve been watching Indiana Governor Mike Pence over the last few days as the “religious freedom” law he passed has been getting so much attention, you’ve noticed that there are many questions he really, really does not want to answer. He doesn’t want to get into specifics or hypotheticals, even […]
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The Self-Contradictory Argument All Republicans Are Making on the Indiana Discrimination Law
View image | gettyimages.com Now that it’s becoming a national story, all the Republican candidates are going to have to take a position on the new Indiana law that for all intents and purposes legalizes discrimination against gay people. (If you’re in the market for a lengthy explanation of what the law does and doesn’t […]
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Legions of Women Workers in U.S. Still Lack Minimum Wage and Labor Protections
The legacy of slavery and prescribed gender roles continues to rob millions of their fair share.
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Selma March Commemorated By Politicians Who Support Gutting of Voting Rights
The 50th anniversary of Bloody Sunday—the catalyst for passage of the Voting Rights Act—is being remembered at a moment when voting rights in the South are at their most precarious in half a century.
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What Do the GOP Candidates Think of State ‘Conscience Clause’ Legislation?
Flickr/Gexydaf There’s an interesting/horrifying piece in today’s New York Times about a trend across the country, but mostly in the South, to enact “conscience” legislation at the state level that would allow businesses to discriminate against gay people if they can justify it on the basis of their religion. One interesting facet of this issue […]
