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Choosing Love or the Mormon Church
Young, LGBT Latter-day Saints can’t live the ideal life of marriage and family described in their religion. But deciding to leave isn't straightforward.
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After Scalia
Jose Luis Magaua / Reuters How Affirmative Action Won the Day
In a 4-3 ruling on a case almost a decade in the making, the Supreme Court ruled that colleges can factor in race in admissions decisions.
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Jae C. Hong / Reuters California's Deadly Wildfires
The Erskine Fire in the mountains 150 miles north of Los Angeles has killed two people and destroyed more than 100 homes.
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Elijah Nouvelage / Reuters A Weekend of Pride
Two weeks after the Orlando shooting, the LGBTQ communities in San Francisco and New York held their annual parades.
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America by Air: Oh Hai, O'Hare
Kevin Grambley, who previously submitted the heli-view over Houston, also captured a crisp scene over O’Hare: If you…
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Jonathan Ernst The Ex-Virginia Governor's Overturned Conviction
The Supreme Court vacated Bob McDonnell’s 2014 corruption conviction in a unanimous decision Monday.
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Staying with Jesus After Suffering Great Evil
A staggering story just landed in our inbox. A reader recalls a moment of divine revelation at a very early…
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Soldiers and the State: Who Owes What to Whom?
Last week I published a long note from a young veteran, on his view of the Chickenhawk Nation conundrum. (Original…
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Brendan McDermid / Reuters Gay Marriage in the United States, One Year Later
The landmark Supreme Court ruling led to a surge of same-sex marriages—and plenty of backlash.
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Blueraspberry / Wikimedia Stoking Debate at the Aspen Ideas Festival
Which issues deserve to be discussed more widely, vigorously, or robustly?
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Finding Jesus at Summer Camp
From Michael, a reader who teaches at an evangelical Christian university: I just read your series, forwarded…
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Deborah Fallows What Rural Economies Look Like From Above
In Kansas, the advent of an energy industry is inscribing itself on the physical landscape, adding wind farms to wheat farms.
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A Note About Trumpism, From the Real America
For the past week my wife Deb and I have been in western Kansas — Dodge City mainly, also Garden…
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Steve Helber / AP Deadly Flooding in West Virginia
Earl Ray Tomblin, the state’s governor, said Friday 14 people were killed.
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Ringo H.W. Chiu / AP The Growing California Wildfire
The fire north of Los Angeles has already burned 80 homes, and several communities were being evacuated.
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AP Who Wants to Buy A Rat's-Head Mug Owned By Whitey Bulger?
The U.S. government is auctioning off the notorious Boston gangster’s belongings to raise money for his victims.
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America by Air: 'The Rice Fields of Arkansas to the Blue Ridge of Virginia'
This gorgeous series of shots from reader Bill Barse makes for one of the best—and certainly the most comprehensive—entries in…
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters Democrats Protested in the Wrong Chamber
The Supreme Court’s deadlock on immigration suggests that the protest should have been in the Senate, not the House.
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Quoted
“This all begins to look and feel a little but like martial law,” —Christine Link, who advocates for…
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Rick Wilking / Reuters Justices Against Drunk Driving
The U.S. Supreme Court approved warrantless breath tests but forbade warrantless blood tests during DUI arrests.
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LM Otero / AP No Charges for the Texas Pool-Party Cop
The white officer was captured on video last summer throwing a black teenage girl to the ground while breaking up a pool party.
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Bryan Woolston / Reuters A 'Not Guilty' Verdict in the Death of Freddie Gray
A judge acquitted Officer Caesar Goodson of all charges in the April 2015 mortal injury of the 25-year-old Baltimore man, including second-degree murder.