Now even politicians as religiously motivated as Mike Huckabee have to claim they don’t care what anybody does in the bedroom.
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Fetal Abnormalities: The Next Minefield in the Abortion Wars?
Conscience clauses are just the beginning—genetic counselors are on a collision course with state-level abortion politics.Â
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Thrown to the Lions
Liberals can’t understand why conservative Christians feel oppressed by modern society, but there are good reasons.
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Daily Meme: Democrats, Republicans, and What Women Want
The question of how to treat women in the workplace has been tripping up America for years. Dolly Parton probably said it best in her 1980 hit, “9 To 5”: “Workin’ 9 to 5/What a way to make a livin’/Barely gettin’ by/It’s all takin’ and no givin’ /They just use your mind/And they never give […]
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What Marijuana Legalization Won’t Be in 2016
Public opinion on the issue may look a lot like that on same-sex marriage, but the two differ in an important way.
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Workers on the Edge
Payroll fraud and the shift to contingent employment are robbing workers of wages, benefits, and job security—and stealing revenues owed to government.
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Beyond Corruption
Plutocrats don’t need to bribe anyone to distort our system beyond any reasonable conception of democracy.
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The Quality of Mercy
An evangelical Christian and former prosecutor, Mark Osler has become one of the country’s most effective advocates for criminal-justice reform.Â
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Daily Meme: Must. Kill. Obamacare.
Despite the invincible conviction on the right that Obamacare is a disaster and that Americans are losing their health insurance, a newly released Gallup poll shows the number of people without insurance has declined to 15.6 percent-its lowest level since 2008. The rate of uninsured dropped among all age groups, but the Affordable Care Act […]
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Daily Meme: A Rough Week for Democracy
Once, long ago, lawmakers from both parties worked together to pass campaign finance reform legislation. It was a simpler time, albeit with terrorist attacks and wars in the Middle East and a presidential administration bent on giving tax breaks to the wealthiest Americans, and in 2002, Democratic Senator Russ Feingold Republican Senator John McCain (remember […]
