Nov 24, 2024
Hands clasped in prayer over a Bible on a wooden table.
Supreme Court Blocks California’s Ban on At-Home Worship

For the fifth time since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the United States Supreme Court has placed religious liberty over California’s right to prioritize public health and safety. In a narrow 5-4 decision, the court rejected the Ninth Circuit’s analysis of California’s regulations that limited in-home worship to three... Read More »

Patrisse Khan-Cullors, co-founder of the Black Lives Matter movement, poses in a yellow hoodie with the word "QUEEN."
BLM Co-Founder Under Fire After String of Upscale Home Purchases

The co-founder of the Black Lives Matter movement is under scrutiny for a string of recent high-end home purchases. Patrisse Khan-Cullors, 37, has caught the attention of many after real estate website dirt.com shared that public records show Khan-Cullors recently purchased a home in Los Angeles for roughly $1.4 million.... Read More »

Amazon fulfillment center in Bessemer, Alabama, with a "VOTE" banner visible on the building during a unionization vote.
Amazon Wins the Union Battle in Alabama—But the War Isn’t Over

On Friday, April 9, 2021, union workers in Amazon’s year-old Bessemer, Alabama, facility rejected unionization in a vote by a more than two-to-one margin. This was quite a blow to organized labor, which sees the fight with Amazon as key to labor’s survival. Amazon is the second-largest private employer (Walmart... Read More »

Two men in suits walking through a corridor, one wearing a mask.
Filibuster: Then and Now

The first filibuster was used in the Senate’s first meeting on September 22, 1789. On that day, Pennsylvania Senator William Maclay wrote that the “design of the Virginians . . . was to talk away the time, so that we could not get the bill passed.” In the 1800s, the... Read More »