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 […]
Gender & Sexuality
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With New Protections Tied Up in the Courts, Home Health-Care Workers Aren’t Waiting Around
From New York to California, domestic workers are fighting to make new rights a reality.Â
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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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Are America’s Corporations Now Pro-Gay?
View image | gettyimages.com Arkansas governor Asa Hutchinson announced today that he won’t be signing the “religious freedom” bill passed by the state legislature, and it sure isn’t because of his deep concern for the welfare of gay Arkansans. You can reduce it to two factors: first, he surely wanted to avoid the PR disaster […]
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The Self-Contradictory Argument All Republicans Are Making on the Indiana Discrimination Law
The cases in question are essentially zero-sum conflicts of claimed rights.
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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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How a Campus Radical Became the First Woman to Run White House Photography Operation
Sharon Farmer says she “never kissed enough butt” to land a job on staff at a national newspaper. Then the White House hired her for the job of a lifetime.
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March Madness: How Title IX Just Totally Rocked Your Sunday
During Women’s History Month, it’s important to remember how recently female athletes were excluded from college basketball.
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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.
