Swastikas scrawled into Jewish students’ notebooks. Headstones toppled and desecrated by vandals at Jewish cemeteries. Jews falsely blamed for challenges facing the nation. The shooting rampage that killed 11 people at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life Synagogue on Saturday is being ...
Read More »Missouri among states with liberal ballot measures
Marijuana legalization. An increase in the minimum wage. Expansion of Medicaid. Come Election Day, voters in a batch of Republican-dominated states will weigh in on these and other liberal or centrist proposals that reached the ballot after bypassing state legislatures. ...
Tagged with: election 2018
Read More »Abortion-rights activists brace for new wave of restrictions
Abortion-rights advocates are intensifying efforts to make it easier for women to get abortions amid a new wave of state-level bans and restrictions expected to occur under a reconfigured U.S. Supreme Court. The efforts include boosting financial aid for women ...
Read More »McDonald’s workers file sex-harassment claims
Two national advocacy groups are teaming up to lodge sexual-harassment complaints against McDonald’s on behalf of 10 women who have worked at the restaurant in nine cities. The workers — one of them a 15-year-old from St. Louis — alleged ...
Read More »Opponents in LGBT case agree: It’s not about wedding cake
In a legal case with profound implications for LGBT rights and religion’s place in public life, the opposing sides agree on this: It’s not about the cake. At its core, the case that goes before the U.S. Supreme Court for ...
Read More »Out of prison, then back in? Unique plan aims to break cycle
Tykeam Jackson’s mellow voice and warm smile give little hint of how the 21-year-old spent his youth: in and out of juvenile detention and jails, leading a life in Boston’s mean streets centered on gangs and guns. “I just kept ...
Read More »Black activists hope for more action from whites
Since the birth of the Black Lives Matter movement three years ago, many white Americans have wrestled with how to respond. Some chose racist-tinged ridicule. Others, by word or deed, sought to show solidarity as blacks protested the deaths of ...
Read More »Supreme Court ruling imperils abortion laws in many states
By striking down tough abortion restrictions in Texas, the U.S. Supreme Court has emboldened abortion-rights activists nationwide and imperiled a range of anti-abortion laws in numerous states. Many anti-abortion leaders were openly disappointed, bracing for the demise of restrictions that ...
Read More »