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When it comes to Roe v. Wade , some pro-choice voices have a jihadism problem. Posting about “Shariʿa” won’t help them. Critiquing originalism might. A subset of those infuriated by the leaked draft…

In March, the State of Texas sent investigators to Amber and Adam Briggle’s home , saying they abused their trans son because they provided him gender-affirming care. In April, Texas police arrested…

With an increasing number of states almost entirely banning abortion if the Supreme Court ends the Roe era, supporters of reproductive freedom and justice need to innovate politically and bring on…

This week, Illinois Representative Adam Kinzinger, one of only ten Republicans in the House of Representatives who voted for Donald Trump’s second impeachment, released to The New York Times a letter…

I grew up in the white evangelical community, surrounded by individuals who became Donald Trump’s most enthusiastic supporters. Although numerous factors motivated support in this community, one bears…

When Claudia Rankine was asked by The Guardian why she decided to give the title Citizen to her powerful 2015 prose poem exploring racism in all of its incarnations , she answered this way: I called…

Democratic presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg was recently castigated by evangelicals and other conservative Christians for saying that, according to his read of the Bible, life begins at first breath. But there was a time, not long ago, when that same belief was at the center of evangelical thought. How quickly the Bible can change.

While some have argued that opposition to a woman’s right to make decisions about her body is a legitimate religious freedom issue, this is a fundamental misunderstanding of the religious freedom issue at stake in the abortion debate.

The problem, he writes, is that he “misjudged how she would take [his] sense of humor.” Really? Does he normally get a good response to asking women he’s just met to pretend they’re prostitutes?

Durga Sengupta at CatchNews.com reported on progress and backlash on LGBT issues in India and around the world in 2016. The Family Research Council praised the Trump transition team for demanding…