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Should military personnel have a license to discriminate? Rep. John Fleming (R-LA) thinks so. As part of the Fiscal Year 2014 Defense Authorization Act, Fleming recently proposed an expansion to an existing “conscience provision.” Rep. Fleming argues that this expansion would allow all military service members to freely express and act in accordance with their moral beliefs.

In the immediate aftermath of the January 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol, some commentators seized upon a new way to grasp the insurrectionists: the individuals involved weren’t just political…

The Justice Department recently decided to comply with a judge’s order to allow minors to purchase emergency contraception without a prescription or age restriction. While reproductive rights and justice groups applaud this progress for women’s health, antichoice groups denounce the decision, also claiming to have women’s well-being in mind.

Twenty years ago, in the immediate aftermath of the September 11 th attacks, President George W. Bush unleashed what he termed the War on Terror that reoriented the geopolitical security paradigm…

If you’re a progressive American who strives to keep up with the world of news and punditry, I’d wager real money you’ve never thought to yourself, “You know what sort of writer the New York Times…

James Ault is a writer and documentary filmmaker based in Northampton, MA. His first film, Born Again (1987), focused on the life of a fundamentalist Baptist church in Worcester, MA. He later wrote a book about the same church, Spirit and Flesh (2004), which The Washington Post called “the best single-volume explanation of why American fundamentalist Christianity thrives among certain people.”

Last week, Rep. Trent Franks (R-Arizona) introduced a bill that would prohibit abortion access nationwide after 20 weeks of pregnancy – with no exceptions for rape, incest, or health of the mother — based on the scientifically unsound claim that fetuses have developed the ability to feel pain by then.

It was the best of the end times. It was the worst of the end times. It was the age of Trump. It was 2019. Trump was compared with the greatest of God’s biblical champions. Things would never be the…

The documentary God Loves Uganda, which depicts the role of American conservative evangelicals in generating vicious antigay campaigns in Uganda, has received acclaim at film festivals across the continent.

For almost 50 years, Americans United for Life (AUL) has chipped away at women’s reproductive rights—both within the U.S. and abroad.