Fifty years after the murders of Schwerner, Chaney and Goodman, North Carolina activists move from civil disobedience to big voter mobilization push.
Gender & Sexuality
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Who Supports the Hobby Lobby Decision? Old People, That’s Who
If you came of age before the sexual revolution of the 1960s, you’re much more likely to think the Supreme Court made the right call.
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Listen to Harold Meyerson Analyze the Supreme Court’s Big Anti-Union Decision on ‘To the Point’
Harold Meyerson, The American Prospect‘s editor at large, appeared on the June 30th edition of Public Radio International’s To the Point, analyzing the Supreme Court decision in Harris v. Quinn, which allows home health-care workers in Illinois to opt out of paying their union dues. Listen here. Read Meyerson’s essay on the Harris case here: […]
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Supreme Court Rules Disadvantaged Workers Should Be Disadvantaged Some More
The decision in Harris v. Quinn—written by the Court’s leading union-hater, Justice Samuel Alito—appears designed to cripple unions by creating incentives for “free riders.”
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Why The Court’s Hobby Lobby Decision Is Wrong
Today, a bare majority of the Court held that under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, employers do not have to adhere to federal regulations requiring that health insurance offered to employees cover contraceptives if the requirement conflicts with their religious beliefs. The majority opinion supporting this view, written by Justice Alito and joined by the […]
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5 Men on Supreme Court Impose Substantial Burden on Women in Illogical Decision
The Supreme Court rules in Hobby Lobby v. Burwell that corporations can have a religious conscience—at least when it comes to birth control.
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The Implications of the Supreme Court’s Abortion Clinic Buffer Zone Ruling
The balance the opinion strikes between the state’s interest in protecting access to reproductive health clinics and First Amendment rights is not unreasonable, and should not unduly restrict states going forward.
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Campus Sexual Assault: I Am the One in the One in Five
But it took a colleague’s disbelief in that statistic to make me realize what had happened to me.
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45 Years After Stonewall, the LGBT Movement Has a Transphobia Problem
Pride revelers often laud the role played by trans activist Sylvia Rivera in the Stonewall riots, a turning point in the fight for LGBT rights. But after the parade, trans people are forgotten—or worse.
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Hillary Clinton’s New Image: Cool Grandma. Can She Maintain It?
Her attitude—unabashedly feminist, casually in charge—was captured most effectively toward the end of her stint as secretary of state. Can she keep it as a candidate?
