The self-dubbed Mama Bears filed a federal lawsuit alleging that by not being allowed to read sexually explicit material aloud at school board meetings, they themselves are being censored.
Human Rights & Justice
Presidential candidates spoke out in defense of Brazil's electronic voting system, which has been the target of baseless allegations of fraud by Bolsonaro and his allies. Sound familiar?
A Texas proposal to "redefine" slavery grew out of work done under a Texas law that says slavery and racism can’t be taught as part of the “true founding” of the United States.
Reports of people facing severe health crises after being rejected for basic healthcare services and medications due to GOP abortion bans are "a harbinger of the threats faced by millions of women..."
Investigation reveals that medical debt, despite new attention from the White House and Congress, is a far more pervasive problem than previously reported.
Republicans in Pennsylvania attacked a law, that they themselves had previously supported, in an attempt to undermine mail-in voting in the state. That attack has now failed.
The nursing homes industry has quietly developed what consumer attorneys and patient advocates say is a pernicious strategy of pursuing family and friends of patients despite federal law that was enacted to protect them from debt collection.
Passage of the constitutional amendment would have nullified the Kansas Supreme Court ruling and given the Legislature the authority to pass any kind of abortion restriction, without exceptions for rape, incest or a patient’s health.
Elizabeth Weller could not receive the medical care she needed for a failing pregnancy because of a Texas law that banned abortion after six weeks.
On top of the mountain of evidence presented so far by the January 6th committee, DOJ prosecutors are questioning witnesses before a grand jury—including two top aides to Vice President Mike Pence.
Ten Florida men with felony convictions have been charged with voter fraud because prosecutors say they registered and voted illegally.
Sometimes, the sickening reminder of how close we are here to losing our elemental freedoms may abruptly intrude on my day. And I know that I’m not alone.
The United States is currently at the precipice of theocracy at the hands of a small and powerful minority of professed followers of Jesus—and it would have made him sick to his stomach.
Our mass shootings confuse and dismay international observers. A journalist and scholar explains why Europeans cannot understand our inability to control gun violence and how that makes them uncomfortable with America today.
Doomed Jewish doctors trapped in the infamous Warsaw Ghetto in WWII conducted detailed research on the effects of starvation on the human body, and their research survived despite being forbidden by the Nazis.
The new penalties are part of a larger effort by Republicans to criminalize people involved in the election process, using Trump's continually repeated lies of election fraud as a justification.