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Uncle of Stephen Miller: Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting Is What Happens When Hate Is Legitimized

"I’m horrified by it. I’d love to say I was surprised, but I’m not." (Photo: Screenshot)

'Despicable': Trump DOJ Argues to Supreme Court It's Not Discrimination to Fire Transgender People Just for Being Transgender

Julia Conley, staff writer

"They fear us but they cannot erase us. They cannot defeat us. We will fight."

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#WontBeErased: Rally Outside White House to Counter 'Sick, Cynical' Attempt to Deny Trans People's Existence

Julia Conley, staff writer

"This nation's darkest days have always come when our government deemed civil...

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NYT Report Details 'Horrifying,' 'Appalling,' and 'Completely Legal' Pregnancy Discrimination in US

Julia Conley, staff writer

"When will employers start treating maternity care as a priority instead of a...

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According to the New York Times, the rules narrow the definition of sexual harassment, require survivors to go through more extensive processes to file complaints, and only hold schools responsible for addressing sexual misconduct of their students when it occurs on their campuses. (Photo: Christine Baker/The Patriot-News)

Amid 'Epidemic' of Campus Sexual Assault, Women's Groups Decry Rollback of Protections by 'See No Evil Betsy Devos'

'Stuff of Slumlords': Carson Plan Would Triple Rent on Poorest Americans

In Win for Women, New Jersey Enacts Nation's Strongest Equal Pay Law

Putting Fair Housing Investigations on Back-Burner, Trump's HUD Abandons Core Mission

LGBTQ Rights Groups Denounce Trump's 'Reckless' New Proposal Banning Transgender Service Members

For Defending Discrimination of Homeless Transgender People, Ben Carson's Fearmongering Called 'Deeply Alarming'

HUD Secretary Ben Carson

Ben Carson Catches Heat for Cutting 'Free From Discrimination' Promise Out of HUD Mission

Sessions Issues Blatant 'License to Discriminate' With 'Religious Freedom' Memo

AG Jeff Sessions

Sessions Denounced for 'Appalling Assault' on Transgender Workers' Rights

According to the lawsuit, "Google has discriminated and continues to discriminate against its female employees by systematically paying them lower compensation than Google pays to male employees performing substantially similar under similar working conditions."

Google Sued for 'Systematically' Segregating Women Into Lower-Paying Jobs

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Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law

The Trump Administration’s Changes to Title IX Hurt Survivors of Color

National Nurses United

NNU Statement on Synagogue Shooting: ‘End Hate Speech in Wave of Racist/Anti-Semitic Attacks’

National Center for Transgender Equality

In Response to the New York Times' October 21 Story 'Trump Administration Eyes Defining Transgender Out of Existence'...

The New York Immigration Coalition

DOJ Reveals Bannon Behind Census Citizenship Question

Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law

Students Will Be Allowed to Testify in Defense of Harvard’s Affirmative Action Program in Major Federal Court Case

The New York Immigration Coalition

Trump Rule Proposed: Immigrant Families Must Choose Food v. Legal Status

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Jill Richardson

The White House Desperately Wants This Election to Be ‘Us’ vs. ‘Them’

Eugene Robinson

Don’t Tell Me That ‘Both Sides’ Need to Do Better

Khaled Beydoun

Why Aren't We Calling the Pittsburgh Shooting 'Terrorism'?

Will Bunch

The Love That a Pittsburgh Madman Tried to Extinguish – and How You Can Feed the Flame

Juan Cole

Does Anti-Muslimism Enable Anti-Semitism?

Chris Winters

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Chris Hedges

Lynching the Past

Sonali Kolhatkar

Trump Is Strangling the U.S. Refugee Program to Death

Lara Merling

Puerto Rico’s Colonial Legacy and Its Continuing Economic Troubles

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