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April 18, 2017
David Sarasohn
When States Stand for What’s Right—Against Trump’s Feds
The U.S. government and local authorities are fighting once again over civil rights. But the dynamic has been turned upside down.
March 23, 2017
Eric Sasson
What Is Dave Chappelle’s Problem With Gay People?
It's not just that the comedian's Netflix specials are rife with homophobic and transphobic jokes. It's that the jokes are bad.
March 13, 2017
Moira Donegan
The Abominable Legacy of Gay-Conversion Therapy
Joseph Nicolosi, one of the pioneers of the practice, died last week. But his contribution to the field of psychology lives on.
March 10, 2017
Graham Vyse
Go ahead, Democrats. Support transgender bathrooms.
February 27, 2017
Brian Beutler
The Crisis of Conservative Convictions
Many of the Never Trump opinion writers who pushed Trumpian policies in the Obama years are quiet now.
February 23, 2017
Graham Vyse
Betsy DeVos seems confused about what “civil rights” are.
February 23, 2017
Brian Beutler
Trump administration: states’ rights for transphobic bigots, federal crackdown on casual pot smokers.
February 23, 2017
Eric Kleefeld
Betsy DeVos is no hero.
February 19, 2017
Ryan Kearney
Please, New York Times, don’t compare supporting Trump with being gay.
February 3, 2017
Alex Shephard
Let’s not give Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner too much credit for killing an anti-LGBT executive order.
January 10, 2017
Graham Vyse
Bernie Sanders Is a Big Letdown
He's obsessed with winning over Trump voters—and it's making him an ineffective leader of the progressive opposition.
December 2, 2016
Sarah Jones
The separation of church and state may be another casualty of the Trump administration.
October 17, 2016
Timothy J. Williams
Evangelicals Aren’t Always Conservatives
Members of the Christian left are 2016's forgotten values voters.
October 4, 2016
Martha Henriques
For Intersex Activists, There is Beauty in Difference
September 30, 2016
Sarah Jones
The Loud Rise and Quiet Fall of Roy Moore
Has the suspended Alabama chief justice lost the support of the religious right?
September 28, 2016
Sarah Jones
Americans are split on the transgender-bathroom issue.
September 27, 2016
Jerry Davis
What’s Driving Corporate Activism?
September 21, 2016
Sarah Jones
Not all conservatives, Ross Douthat.
September 19, 2016
Sarah Jones
Pat McCrory is feeling a little sensitive right now.
September 14, 2016
Sarah Jones
Illinois has its own Kim Davis. (Not that it needed one.)

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