China’s National Security Law Wins Business Support
HONG KONG — The business world has largely fallen in line behind China’s campaign to tighten its grip on Hong Kong, including its support for...
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Facebook Boycott: Unilever and Verizon Join Pledge to Pull Ads
Facebook is facing a growing boycott by advertisers unhappy with its handling of misinformation and hate speech, including its laissez-faire attitude toward recent posts from...
Music Director Fired From Catholic Parish Days Before Supreme Court L.G.B.T.Q. Ruling
ROYAL OAK, Mich. — The first wedding ceremony for Terry Gonda and Kirsti Reeve was a joyful occasion attended by 180 friends and family, complete...
Sex Does Not Mean Gender. Equating Them Erases Trans Lives.
Men menstruate. Some have even given birth. Women with penises and prominent larynxes walk the streets and use the ladies’ restroom. Nonbinary people wear binders...
Qualified Immunity Protection for Police Emerges as Flash Point Amid Protests
WASHINGTON — Long before the death of George Floyd set off a nationwide uproar over police brutality, before protests erupted in 2014 over the death...
We Can Find Common Ground on Gay Rights and Religious Liberty
Last week’s Supreme Court ruling extending employment-discrimination protections to L.G.B.T. Americans — in a 6-to-3 decision, with a conservative justice writing the majority opinion and...
The Tempting of Neil Gorsuch
It might surprise contemporary Americans that for most of our history, what we call “culture war” debates — arguments about rights, social justice, the moral...
‘Banking While Black’: How Cashing a Check Can Be a Minefield
Clarice Middleton shook with fear as she stood on the sidewalk outside a Wells Fargo branch in Atlanta one December morning in 2018. Moments earlier,...
How 7 Civil Rights Activists View The George Floyd Protests
Throughout the past several weeks, as protests over the killing of George Floyd rippled through America’s cities, a 79-year-old retired schoolteacher has spent her days...
Activists Who Marched With Dr. King Offer Lessons for Those Marching for George Floyd
Throughout the past several weeks, as protests over the killing of George Floyd rippled through America’s cities, a 79-year-old retired schoolteacher has spent her days...