In 2017, transgender community sees record political gains – and violent hostility
Lisa Middleton ran for city council in Palm Springs, Calif., this year, she says, because she felt the time was right for her as a civil servant. Recommended: How...
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'Thoughts and prayers': For devout, what does it mean to pray after tragedy?
It’s a familiar performance in a long-running drama: Following a mass shooting, proponents and opponents of gun control take to the national stage, find their blocking on the scene,...
Behind religious defense of Roy Moore, an aggressive view of masculinity
When some of Roy Moore’s defenders seemed to justify the idea of older Christian men dating teenage girls, a number of conservative Evangelical Christians, like a number of Americans,...
A tax cut, but for whom? Republican plans favor business
The latest plot twist in Republican efforts to overhaul the US tax code amplifies what may be the most fundamental debate surrounding the legislation: Who is this really for?
Amid apparent coup, Zimbabwe ponders a future without Mugabe
When troops placed Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe under house arrest Wednesday in what appeared to be a military coup, it wasn’t just the possible unseating of the country’s long-time president. It...
As ban on 'Il Duce' trinkets looms, Mussolini's hometown eyes educational future
Mussolini busts, Mussolini keyrings, statues of “Il Duce” on a rearing stallion, and Mussolini propaganda posters. The bizarre objects are crammed into a shop on the main street of...
The deeper meaning of the Roy Moore saga
Few stories illustrate the zeitgeist of American politics and culture more clearly right now than that of the Republican Senate candidate in Alabama, Roy Moore, who is battling accusations...
A petrostate’s path back from the debt brink
The country with the world’s largest proven oil reserves was declared to be in a debt default by Standard & Poor’s this week. Like many petrostates, once-rich Venezuela has...
Why Shiite pilgrimage to Karbala had special meaning this year
For Iraq, guaranteeing the safety of millions of Shiite faithful on their annual pilgrimage to the shrine of a revered saint in Karbala has always been a monumental challenge....
What’s the real story behind Hillary Clinton, Russia, and uranium?
President Trump calls it the “real Russia story”: allegations that as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton approved the sale of 20 percent of US uranium supplies to Rosatom, the...
