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Are we worse off than when “The Handmaid’s Tale” was first published?

This morning’s presidential signing of an executive order “promoting free speech and religious liberty” isn’t the broad license to discriminate against LGBT people that many activists feared. Instead…

Well, it’s done. Moments ago the Senate confirmed Neil Gorsuch as the newest associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. His ascension to the high court was, of course, incredibly contentious, though…

For the past week or so, the National Review’s Alexandra Desanctis and I have been debating some of the finer points of both “religious freedom” and religious freedom. On Monday she published a…

Tearing a page from the “religious liberty” playbook, the ACLU contends that Trump’s travel ban violates core constitutional principles—and, crucially, the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.

Americans United for Separation Church and State has some serious concerns about how a Supreme Court Justice Gorsuch might dismantle that constitutional wall.

For once, I agree with right-wing claims that religious freedom in America is under attack. This central tenet of American democracy is facing its most egregious assault in nearly 70 years. But this…

Conservative interpretations of Catholic theology are often more influential on the religious and political right than they’re often given credit for.

A majority of Americans support employee access to contraception through workplace-provided insurance.

Largely lost in the (understandable) hubbub about the Supreme Court’s historic Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt abortion decision was its action the following day that may recast the parameters of…