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A sharp uptick in challenges to U.S. antidiscrimination laws threatens decades of progress in extending civil rights to all.
A proposed French bill says so. But, strictly speaking, there can be no such thing as blasphemy within the terms of secular public order.
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For too long we have acquiesced to Islamophobic government policies. The cost of our silence is now clear.
Islamophobia is a shared project of the Democrat and Republican parties, long preceding the rise of white nationalism and Trump.
Kurds—the largest stateless ethnic group in the world—can be found on all sides of an increasingly complex conflict that stretches across Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran.
Protest is not merely a matter of personal awakening, but of organizing and mobilizing the power needed to change social relations.
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