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As the Supreme Court’s new conservative majority prepares to strike down abortion rights, experts say its legal logic could also endanger gay marriage, transgender healthcare and even the right to gay sex, writes Io Dodds

What healthy democracies need are ongoing processes of democratic deliberations among citizens

In “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy” — John le Carré’s classic novel about the hunt for a traitor near the top of British Intelligence — the hero, George Smiley, tells a colleague that “the art” of being a mole “is to be one of a crowd.” The greater the number of…

More Americans than ever support the right for same-sex couples to marry, a new Gallup poll finds.

As the Supreme Court’s new conservative majority prepares to strike down abortion rights, experts say its legal logic could also endanger gay marriage, transgender healthcare and even the right to gay sex, writes Io Dodds

Tech industry groups say law could make social media platforms ‘havens of the vilest expression’

The ruling is not a final decision on the merits. But it likely signals that at least five Supreme Court justices believe the law is unconstitutional.

Measure passed by Republican-led legislature seeks to bar platforms from removing user posts based on ‘viewpoint’

Ordinarily, the word “unprecedented” is hyperbole, similar to “Breaking news!” or “Greatest ever!” When used to describe the current danger to American democracy, however, it is all too appropriate. Never in the nation’s history have democratic institutions been so at risk under what would first appear to be banal circumstances.

In addition to New York, there are seven other states with similar concealed carry licensing laws

A federal lawsuit argues that the department's regulations violate due process, the separation of powers, and the First Amendment.