BreakPoint: The Supreme Court to Decide on the Meaning of Words
Update from Tuesday’s Oral Arguments
At the heart of a pending Supreme Court decision, one of the most significant since Obergefell v. Hodges, is whether or not..Read more
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Weekly Review
Kurds Abandoned, Supreme Court Watch, Clean Comedy, Tyler Perry
Kurds Abandoned. The United States will abandon the Kurdish fighters who supported American troops in the years-long fight against Islamic..Read more
Podcast: A Supreme Court Preview
An Interview with Elizabeth Slattery
In 1916, the U.S. Congress passed a law saying the Supreme Court of the United States would convene on the..Read more
BreakPoint: The Victims of Words
Reality Isn’t Whatever We Want
In one of Marvel’s recent blockbuster superhero movies, a genocidal alien-arch-bad-guy named Thanos acquires an “Infinity Stone,” which allows him..Read more
The Point: A Word Pregnant with Meaning
Last week, the Supreme Court refused to uphold a portion of an Indiana law that would have prevented abortion based..Read more
BP This Week: When a Mother Is not a Mother
Plus: Entertaining Ourselves to Death; The Bedroom and the Pew
Ideas have consequences, bad ideas have victims. So what happens when words no longer have meaning? Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg..Read more
The Point: White Men and Abortion
“These 25 White Men – all Republicans – just Voted to Ban Abortion in Alabama.” Of all the hyperbolic, misleading..Read more
Weekly Review
Sri Lanka Bombings, Gender Identity Child Abuse, Fertility Fraud, and SCOTUS Considers LGBTQIA Case
Sri Lanka Bombings. The death toll continues to rise in the aftermath of Easter Sunday attacks that struck an evangelical..Read more
BreakPoint: Religious Freedom is for All
Or It Will Be for None
The New York Times recently told the story of Maha Kassef, an elementary school teacher in Montreal who, like many..Read more
Weekly Review
Starbucks Bans Porn, Self-Selecting Age, Teacher Fired Over Pronoun, Planned Parenthood Legal Victory, and Remembering Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Mark Heard, Andrew Lytle
Starbucks Bans Porn. Starbucks announced two weeks ago it will block porn sites on its in-store Wi-Fi service. The decision..Read more
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