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With Kennedy Retiring, Senate Democrats Need to Fight for Our Lives. Do They Have the Guts?

Jodi Jacobson & NYCLU Wins Injunction to Halt Prolonged Detention of Immigrant Youth

Kennedy is retiring and a SCOTUS fight is upon us. This is not politics as usual. This is survival. The Democrats must treat it as such or be forever infamous for preemptive surrender.

NYCLU Wins Injunction to Halt Prolonged Detention of Immigrant Youth

Tina Vasquez

In granting the preliminary injunction, U.S. District Judge Paul Crotty observed that the policy was "at the zenith of impermissible agency actions.”

Bethany Christian Services Is Fostering Migrant Kids. It Also Has a History of Coercive Adoptions.

Amy Littlefield & Tina Vasquez

Media outlets have largely overlooked the troubling record of Bethany, a well-connected powerhouse of the anti-choice movement, even as reporters have interviewed the agency’s leaders on the plight of migrant kids.

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Most Parents Want Comprehensive Sex Ed, But Protests Are Getting Louder

Ellen Friedrichs

New opposition claims sex ed curricula promote the "LGTBQ agenda" and pornography. But few parents have heeded calls to remove their children from sexuality instruction at school.

[Photo: Woman giving young boy, who is in bed, medicine.]

Massachusetts Set to Become Sixth State With Paid Family Leave (Updated)

Bryce Covert

The legislature didn’t stop there, though. It also approved an increase in the state’s minimum wage to eventually reach $15 an hour.

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The Supreme Court Recognized Marriage Equality Three Years Ago. Now Same-Sex Adoption Is in Danger.

Jessica Mason Pieklo

Three years following the Supreme Court's historic decision recognizing marriage equality in Obergefell v. Hodges, conservatives have made gains undermining LGTBQ families' ability to serve as foster and adoptive parents.

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Family Separation Is a US Tradition. Just Ask Native Communities.

Auditi Guha

Before the Trump administration separated migrant parents from their children at the U.S.-Mexico border, it was routine for the federal government to separate Native parents from their children.

Jayapal: Democratic House Majority Would Publicize White House Hate Group Connections

Dennis Carter

"[Stephen] Miller is a guy who has devoted his life to anti-immigrant ... white supremacist policies," said U.S. Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA).

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There Are Few Immigrants in Congress. Is That Why These Inhumane Policies Are Continuing?

Kate Browning

The North of Ireland was my first homeland, but I chose to leave after it was torn asunder by violent civil war. I can still feel the terror of not knowing whether I'd ever see my family again. This is the fear and agony more than 2,300 children have felt since April thanks to the Trump administration.

[Photo: Press Secretary Sarah Sanders and Attorney General Jeff Sessions]

Cherry-Picking the Bible to Mistreat the Stranger: Religion on Family Separation

Toni M. Bond

White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders and Attorney General Jeff Sessions would do well to leave biblical interpretation to religious scholars. Though we don't need formal training to have compassion.

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