Civil Rights

This year’s reauthorization of U.S. military spending includes a provision registering women for the draft when they turn 18, same as men. Under the provisions, both sexes also will be automatically registered with Selective Service when…

Juneteenth is an occasion to celebrate the triumph of America’s abolitionist movement. Though a landmark achievement, the emancipation of black Americans did not end racial injustice in the U.S. Rather Jim Crow segregation necessitated the…

Politico Reporter Heidi Przybyla recently appeared on MSNBC to attack an “extremist element” in the Republican Party that she refers to as “Christian nationalism.” As Przybyla explained, “The thing that unites them as Christian nationalists…

When he failed to enact his agenda through Congress, President Obama famously reacted by saying he still had his phone and his pen. Unfortunately, his bureaucrats in federal agencies also had their own phones and a lot of pens. One…

Why do we celebrate a holiday honoring a man who was jailed 29 times and ultimately assassinated? What lessons can we learn from Martin Luther King, Jr. and from American society, much of which seems to have forgotten the contributions that…

“Yeah, hit his -ss,” a black teenager giddily said before his friend mowed down a cyclist in a recently circulated viral video. Meanwhile: Las Vegas teens steal a car hit & run another car then hit a man on a bike just for fun. Modern…

Given the rise in political polarization in the United States, some pundits believe that the nation could be coming apart at the seams. A new documentary uses a recent example from overseas to demonstrate in vivid detail what that would…

There’s a story in the Bible about a tax collector and a religious and political official, praying in public where many gathered. The tax collector, hated then as now, quietly asked for forgiveness of sins, but the official loudly…

The United States is undergoing an attempted regime change, and the pride flag is its emblem. This regime change has been more than a century in the making. Initially, it flew under the Stars and Bars while hollowing out its meaning. Now…

A Colorado-based legal group filed a civil rights complaint against the University of California Berkeley (Berkeley) over holding a segregated graduation ceremony in May. The Mountain States Legal Foundation (MSLF) filed an administrative…