little sisters of the poor

Remember the 1990s ? The inexplicable popularity of fluorescent fanny packs? The innocent thrill of getting AOL and connecting to the world wide web for the first time? Everyone talking about how Bill…

While deploying “religious freedom” arguments to push back on progressive social change is hardly new, the explicitly anti-LGBT premise of the upcoming Masterpiece Cakeshop suit is a relatively novel…

If it’s not obvious why the Trump administration has decided to roll back regulations requiring employers to offer contraceptive coverage in their health plans: it’s the base, duh. This is little more…

On Monday’s episode of Late Night with Seth Meyers, the host took a break from lampooning the breaking news that constantly dribbles out of the White House, instead focusing on “Trump’s evolving views…

This morning’s presidential signing of an executive order “promoting free speech and religious liberty” isn’t the broad license to discriminate against LGBT people that many activists feared. Instead…

Largely lost in the (understandable) hubbub about the Supreme Court’s historic Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt abortion decision was its action the following day that may recast the parameters of…

Is it the habits? The crosses? What is it about the Little Sisters of the Poor that seems to have the power to cloud the mind of the Supreme Court? If you substituted any other word for “contraception…

Now that Ted Cruz’s last hope for stopping Donald Trump rests on ginning up panic and outrage over transgender women using the ladies room, we can officially say that the Republican nominating process…

With headlines like ” 53 Percent Say Making Nuns Participate in Obamacare Birth Control Mandate is Unfair,” the conservative Christian press has found its angle on Zubik v. Burwell. For the rest of us…

Between last week’s Supreme Court hearing on the challenge to the contraceptive mandate accommodation by the Little Sisters of the Poor and other religious non-profits, and Georgia’s attempt to pass…