Peter Z. Scheer / TruthdigJul 17, 2013
Parliament has cleared the way for same-sex unions to begin in half of the United Kingdom. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
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Richard Reeves / TruthdigMar 29, 2013
As the Supreme Court debated this week over the federal Defense of Marriage Act, Justice Antonin Scalia noted the number of states that are permitting gays and lesbians to marry. "There has been a sea change," he said, "between now and 1996." He was right about that, but it's not just gay marriage. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Tracy Bloom / TruthdigAug 20, 2012
By inviting former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and South Carolina financier Darla Moore to join, the Augusta National Golf Club has finally entered the 21st century. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Larry Gross / TruthdigSep 22, 2010
We live in two simultaneous but radically incongruous realities, where undemocratic arrangements negotiated in the 18th century contend with commercial media industries that covet the enlightened youth. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigSep 15, 2010
The French Senate voted 246-1 Tuesday to make it illegal for women to wear garments that cover their entire faces. The measure, if greenlighted by a constitutional body, will affect only a few thousand people, but its implications for religious freedom and women's rights have attracted international interest. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigMay 18, 2010
A study out of Brandeis University has determined that white Americans have roughly five times the wealth of black Americans of similar class, owing largely to greater economic opportunity. The results are worse than expected and suggest that America is backsliding in an important indicator of racial equality. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigMay 11, 2010
It isn't an outright ban -- yet -- but the French parliament agreed unanimously (except for 30 protesters who walked out) to condemn the face veil worn by some Muslim women as "an affront to the nation's values of dignity and equality." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
BLANKAug 21, 2009
Are Americans sacrificing the possibility of a more tolerant humanity for a suffocating guarantee of fidelity, a frigid prospect that seemingly unites the commissars of the politically correct left as much as it does the thought police of the puritanical right?Are Americans sacrificing the possibility of a more tolerant humanity for a suffocating guarantee of marital fidelity? Dig deeper ( 9 Min. Read )
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