Civil Rights Act Protects Gay Workers, Court Rules

By MATTHEW HAAG and NIRAJ CHOKSHI April 4, 2017 In a significant victory for gay rights, a federal appeals court in Chicago ruled Tuesday that the 1964 Civil Rights Act protects gay workers from job discrimination, expanding workplace protections...

Police Unions Hail Trump’s Easing of Scrutiny. Local Officials Worry.

By RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA and SHERYL GAY STOLBERG April 4, 2017 Black pedestrians in Baltimore stopped without reasonable suspicion. Black drivers in Ferguson, Mo., searched much more frequently than whites. Cleveland residents...

A Transgender Student Won Her Battle. Now It’s War.

By ANEMONA HARTOCOLLIS April 2, 2017 PALATINE, Ill. — Tall and sylphlike, an athlete with delicate features and a blond topknot, she changes clothes behind a privacy curtain in the girls’ locker room at her high school. But just being allowed to...

North Carolina Senate Acts to Repeal Restrictive Bathroom Law

By RICHARD FAUSSET March 30, 2017 ATLANTA — The North Carolina Senate voted in favor of a bill Thursday that repealed the controversial law affecting transgender bathroom use in public buildings, part of a compromise worked out earlier in the week...

In North Carolina, Governing With a Punch and a Handshake

By RICHARD FAUSSET March 19, 2017 RALEIGH, N.C. — Perhaps the outcome was to be expected here in deeply conflicted North Carolina. While voters chose the brash, bullying TV boss of “The Apprentice” for president, they simultaneously chose...

Debunking a Myth: The Irish Were Not Slaves, Too

By LIAM STACK March 17, 2017 It has shown up on Irish trivia Facebook pages, in Scientific American magazine, and on white nationalist message boards: the little-known story of the Irish slaves who built America, who are sometimes said to have outnumbered...