The key factor driving the courts' decisions about whether to strike down discriminatory laws has not been immutability but something more basic: whether a law discriminates on the basis of a trait that has no bearing on a person's ability to contribute to society.

It's normal for Holly Brenan to receive teary phone calls from heavily distressed parents. It's normal for them to have agonised questions.

In a move that many people attribute to the public backlash through social media, Susan G. Komen for the Cure decided to reverse its original decision to cease funding for Planned Parenthood. The Komen foundation will continue to fund the existing grants of Planned Parenthood, according to a statement released Friday from the Susan G. [...]

Conservativism may be the refuge of the dim. But the room for rightwing ideas is made by those too timid to properly object Self-deprecating, too liberal for their own good, today's progressives stand back and watch, hands over their mouths, as the social vivisectionists of the right slice up a living society to see if its component parts can survive in isolation. Tied up in knots of reticence ...

In an election-year hothouse, the issue has quickly become caricatured as the Obama administration's "war on Catholics" versus the Republicans' "war on contraception." It is neither. The administration tried to strike a balance and simply failed. The First Amendment's guarantee of religious freedom deserves more weight than the administration allowed.

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How research in political psychology explains the fierce clashes between Republican and Democrats in our polarized system.

In the first round of what could be a lengthy federal case, the Derry Township-based Milton Hershey School filed a response Friday to a lawsuit alleging it violated a student’s civil rights by denying him admission last year.

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