Social Issues

Supreme Court considers landmark equality cases

2013-06-15 19:52:00

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court has devoted decades to giving meaning to the Constitution's promise of equality for all before the law. Now, as the court heads into the final two weeks of this year's term, the justices may be about to close one...

L.A. Film Festival: 'The New Black' evaluates politics from pews

2013-06-15 14:00:00

With same-sex marriage being evaluated at the state level across the country and the Supreme Court near its decision on the subject, the documentary "The New Black" could hardly be more timely. The film premiered Friday to a theater of enthusiastic...

Hoag Hospital criticized after dropping elective abortions

2013-06-16 07:42:00

Hoag Hospital's decision to stop performing elective abortions in the wake of its affiliation with a Catholic healthcare group has sparked an outcry among women's rights advocates, who say the move diminishes access to high-quality reproductive care....

'Call Me Kuchu,' 'God Loves Uganda' shed light on gay-rights fight

2013-06-16 06:00:00

As the same-sex marriage debate continues throughout the U.S., another front in the battle over gay rights has emerged thousands of miles away in the East African nation of Uganda, where in 2009 a bill was drafted that would impose the death penalty for...

Letters: Children and same-sex marriage

2013-06-15 00:00:00

Re "Why marriage matters," Opinion, June 9 Nathaniel Frank's piece revealed a compressed view of same-sex marriage. Nowhere did it mention children — conveniently dismissed, it seems, as if marriage is simply a celebration of individual rights and...

Same-sex marriage may overshadow other LGBT issues, poll finds

2013-06-13 09:00:00

As Americans await Supreme Court rulings tied to same-sex marriage, a sweeping new study of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Americans finds some fear that the battle over marriage has drawn too much attention away from other problems they face....

Democrats seek to avoid repeat of 2010 loss in Massachusetts

2013-06-12 17:09:00

WASHINGTON — Desperate to avoid another Massachusetts special-election debacle, Democrats are pulling out all the stops for Rep. Edward J. Markey in the contest to keep the Senate seat formerly held by Secretary of State John F. Kerry in...

Robert Fogel dies at 86; economic historian won Nobel Prize

2013-06-12 17:12:00

Robert Fogel, the University of Chicago economic historian awarded a Nobel Prize for his data-driven reconsiderations of how railways and slavery influenced U.S. economic history, has died. He was 86. Fogel died Tuesday at Manor Care Health Services...

New abortion rules assume women are really stupid

2013-06-13 15:20:00

The House Judiciary Committee, dominated by Republican men who still have not learned to avoid the subject of rape and pregnancy, took up the issue of abortion this week. Normally, the news about abortion focuses on the machinations of conservative...

Lesbians and gays see a more accepting society

2013-06-13 21:23:00

A sweeping new study of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Americans finds that the overwhelming majority believe society has grown more accepting over the last decade — and will continue to do so in the decade to come. Yet many said they...

South Africa's path to marriage equality

2013-06-13 00:00:00

I can't say, of course, how the U.S. Supreme Court will rule on the same-sex marriage cases before it. But I can talk about how South African courts grappled with the issue in 2005, after a case was brought by a lesbian couple who had been denied the...

More Americans consider themselves multiracial

2013-06-12 21:14:00

The number of Americans who consider themselves multiracial has grown faster than any other racial group nationwide, new Census Bureau data reveal, a sign of slow but momentous shifts in the way that Americans think about race. Mixed or multiracial...

A physics teacher at Fairleigh Dickinson University in New Jersey was arrested for running an online prostitution website. David Flory was arrested in Albuquerque, New Mexico on 40 counts of promoting prostitution.

2013-06-13 07:30:00

Anna Gorman dances with her father, Ira Gorman, at her brother's wedding in 2000. In addition to a genetic mutation known as BRCA1, Anna shared a love of dancing and a love of words with her father. BRCA1 dramatically increases the risk of certain types of cancer, including breast and ovarian.

2013-05-14 19:59:00

Brandy's 1996 sitcom ended on a wicked cliffhanger; Miles was kidnapped and one of the girls in Moesha's dorm was pregnant but who?

2013-05-14 08:17:00