David Pocock is planning a dinner party. The guest list is already proving a toilsome task when he realises he is allowed to invite the dead along with the living. “How many people are we talking?” he ventures. “This could be epic.” After careful contemplation, he lands on Mahatma Gandhi. […]
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October 11 is National Coming Out Day in the United States, celebrated each year to mark the anniversary of the 1987 National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights. After generations of progress in the LGBTQ community, marked by milestones such as the Stonewall Riots 51 years ago and […]
Vice President Mike Pence and Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., took the debate stage Wednesday in Salt Lake City for their first and only match up of the election. The event came soon after a contentious presidential debate and President Donald Trump’s Covid-19 diagnosis. Harris and Pence sparred over the administration’s […]
Judge Amy Coney Barrett (pictured) is said to be President Trump’s presumptive nominee for Supreme Court justice Democrats are being warned against using presumptive US Supreme Court nominee Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s Catholic faith against her if questioning her during confirmation hearings. Reports have indicated that Barrett, 48, is Trump’s […]
In 1972, I was asked by the ACLU to direct the Women’s Rights Project with then-Professor Ruth Bader Ginsburg. As we began to work together, I was struck by her tireless commitment to fight in the courts for women’s equality. Every morning she would call me to find out if […]
If President Donald Trump wins again in November, the future of the party seems rather clear: Trumpism reigns supreme. His reelection, regardless of whether he receives a majority of the popular vote or not, will be hailed by the party as an affirmation of all things Trump. Reluctant Republican members […]
Robert Voelte and Ian Rose call themselves an intergenerational, intercultural, interracial gay couple standing in the center of a blue dot in the middle of a red state. That state is Nebraska, where they met in August 2008 on Mr. Rose’s first day as a vocal music teacher at the […]
Before Edafe Okporo founded New York City’s first and only shelter for asylum-seekers and refugees, he was wandering the streets of Elizabeth, New Jersey, a refugee with nowhere to go. Although he was homeless, Okporo was happy to be in the United States. “Everything just changed when I stepped my […]