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3 Jul 2017, 9:01 pm
Texas law requires children who attend public schools to begin their days with this trifecta: the Pledge of Allegiance, the Texas Pledge (“Honor the Texas flag; I pledge allegiance to thee, Texas, one state, under God, one and indivisible”), and a minute of silence to “reflect, pray, meditate, or engage in any other silent activity that is not likely to interfere with or distract another student. [read post]
31 Jul 2017, 9:01 pm
Thanks to the Twitter habit of Donald Trump and those on his White House team, the public has been treated to a number of disturbing exchanges in which they spew accusations, threats, and other attacks against one another, as well as on members of the other two branches of government. [read post]
9 Oct 2017, 9:01 pm
Nine months into Trump’s all-out war on women, it came as little surprise when the president officially rolled back the Affordable Care Act’s contraceptive mandate by allowing employers with religious or moral objections to exempt themselves. [read post]
11 Oct 2021, 9:01 pm
Let’s start with a stunning fact: a Texas law that unconstitutionally bans 85-90% of pre-viability abortions has now been in effect for six weeks. [read post]
5 Jan 2023, 9:01 pm
I wrote about a bill called the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA) in 2012, when it was introduced in Congress for the first time. [read post]
8 May 2023, 9:00 pm
One need not scroll too far down any news or social media feed these days to find a conservative diatribe against no-fault divorce. [read post]
21 Oct 2019, 9:01 pm
Elizabeth Warren reported that her contract as a teacher was not renewed when she was visibly pregnant at the end of her first year. [read post]
29 Jun 2020, 9:01 pm
Reproductive rights advocates and activists breathed a collectively sigh of relief when the Supreme Court issued its opinion in June Medical Services, L.L.C. v. [read post]
7 Oct 2019, 9:01 pm
Today, the Supreme Court will hear argument in three cases that could have monumental impact on federal anti-discrimination law. [read post]
14 Apr 2020, 9:00 pm
The global pandemic wrought by COVID-19 has brought unprecedented chaos to virtually every aspect of our lives. [read post]
26 Nov 2018, 9:00 pm
Who is responsible for sexual harassment and assault in schools? [read post]
26 Apr 2021, 9:01 pm
Joanna Harper, a researcher and medical physicist, estimates that only 50 out of 200,000 athletes competing in women’s college sports are transgender (or 0.025%). [read post]
18 Jun 2014, 9:01 pm
Sometimes it’s all about the way you ask a question. [read post]
4 Aug 2014, 9:01 pm
One might watch the Netflix original series Orange Is the New Black and think that the rampant sexual encounters in the prison—involving the warden, correctional officers, and inmates in various pairings—are trumped up to appeal to the prurient interests of viewers. [read post]
1 Aug 2016, 9:01 pm
Although the Supreme Court’s endorsement in 2015 of the right of same-sex couples to marry clarified the status of same-sex couples—or at least their options vis-à-vis formal status—it left open a variety of questions about the formal parent-child relationships in same-sex-couple families. [read post]
12 Apr 2016, 9:01 pm
For better or worse, the modern face of polygamy in the United States is Kody Brown, a floppy-haired man with one legal wife, three “spiritual” wives, and more than a dozen kids. [read post]
29 Feb 2016, 9:01 pm
In Smith v. [read post]
18 Jan 2016, 9:01 pm
Media reports abound about a lawsuit filed by a woman in California against a man in Georgia who hired her to carry children for him as a surrogate. [read post]
10 Nov 2014, 9:01 pm
Joanna L. [read post]
5 Aug 2013, 9:01 pm
Surrogacy, an arrangement in which a woman carries a child for others who intend to raise it, is no longer novel. [read post]
