discrimination/religious freedom

Donald Trump’s executive order on immigration, now in its second iteration, deserves its shorthand designation: the Muslim Ban. And this new administration’s slapdash effort to ban travel from Iran…

Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin marked the arrival of Spring by signing a new “religious freedom” law that allows student groups at public universities and high schools to turn away LGBT students, ostensibly…

There’s a connection between hitting children and cultural identity. Growing up in Austin, Texas, I remember going to summer camp and being shocked to meet kids who had been hit with paddles by their…

It was one of the more remarkable moments in the saga of the “repeal/replace” of the Affordable Care Act. When Democratic Congressman Mike Doyle asked his Energy and Commerce Committee colleague…

Trump’s second attempt at banning travel from certain Muslim-majority countries is clearly written to avoid being struck down under the Establishment Clause. Most notably, it no longer contains…

In a recent article on the ABC News website about the un-scientific practice known as ” ex-gay therapy,” the outlet neglected to include any comment from anyone in the well-publicized network of…

19th century women’s rights activist Matilda Joslyn Gage sought equal rights for all, but only by rethinking religion.

This post has been edited and a correction has been added. — eds However well-intentioned, NPR’s latest foray into “religious freedom” falls victim to several false equivalencies and ends up leaving…

In an NPR interview the morning after Mr. Trump’s latest attempt to pivot to something resembling presidential, national security advisor Seb Gorka declined to affirm that Islam is a religion, saying…

Slate’s Mark Joseph Stern published an important scoop on Friday, revealing that the U.S. Supreme Court had formally reprimanded two right-wing, anti-LGBTQ groups for misgendering the teenage…