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I Canât Do My Job as a Pastor With Abortion Laws Like Texasâ S.B. 8 in Place
As a Baptist pastor from a midsize Southern city in a conservative red state, I know firsthand who suffers when politicians attempt to limit the right of every person to determine whether, when and how to become parents. I also know how vital it is for people of faith to speak up in these religiousâŚ
Melinda French Gates: Our Economy Is Powered by Caregivers. Thatâs Why Itâs Time for National Paid Leave
âThis is a once-in-a-generation opportunity,â a member of Congress told me earlier this summer. We were talking about the chance to pass a desperately needed, long overdue national paid family and medical leave law. After decades of groundwork by advocates and activists, this must be the year that the United States finally moves to guaranteeâŚ
Why You Feel So Tired All the Time
A little over a month ago, I started feeling more fatigued than usual. Just about everything in my lifeâfrom getting out of bed to exercising to writing to coaching to readingârequired a significant amount of activation energy. All of these activities usually felt smooth and seamless. Now they had turned into a grind. I wasnâtâŚ
Why Older Couples Donât Need Marriage to Have Great Relationships
When Rochelle Ventura, a retired election consultant, married at age 22, she felt, she says, âlike a domestic slave.â Now 83 and living with Phil Doppelt, 82, a retired software engineer, she says, âWeâre equals. At the start, I explained dinner was not my responsibility to plan every night.â They divide their time between herâŚ
My Child Was Vulnerable Long Before the Pandemic. But the Wait for a Vaccine Is Excruciating
Whenever my 9-year-old seizes, heâs coming out of sleepâas though his brain gets stuck in an elevator between the basement of REM and the lobby of consciousness. Around 5 a.m., always on a day I couldnât predict, his 50-pound frame starts to tap and jerk, keeping an awful rhythm, and, for too many seconds, heâŚ
A Decade After Jamey Rodemeyerâs Death, His Parents Are Still Trying to Protect Kids From Homophobia and Bullying
TIME spoke with the Rodemeyers ahead of the ten year anniversary of Jameyâs death about their sonâs life and legacy, and the progress yet to be made.
Why the Federal Firearms Agency Canât Find a Permanent Director
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) remains without a leader after President Joe Bidenâs selection of David Chipman to lead the organization was pulled on Sept. 9 after weeks of speculation and Chipmanâs nomination languishing before the Senate. And with the U.S. continuing to deal with high levels of gun violence, questionsâŚ
Coloradoâs Jared Polis, First Openly Gay U.S. Governor, Marries Longtime Partner
The couple have been together for 18 years and have two children, a 7-year-old boy and a 9-year-old girl
âWho Else Is Spying on Me?â Muslim Americans Bring the Fight Against Surveillance to the Supreme Court
Imam Yassir Fazaga remembers the panic he felt. He remembers opening up the electrical sockets in his office and searching behind his computer monitor, looking for recording devices. In conversations with congregants, especially unfamiliar ones, he had doubts. âWho else is an informant? Who else is spying on me?â he recalls thinking. It was theâŚ
âA Queer Tax.â New Lawsuit Alleges Aetna Discriminates Against LGBTQ People Seeking Fertility Treatment
When Emma Goidel was denied coverage for her fertility treatments in September 2020, she was furious. A 31-year-old writer in New York City, Goidel and her partner were excited to try for a babyâand Goidel had begun intrauterine insemination (IUI) treatments to get pregnant that fall. But when she applied for those treatments to beâŚ
As Wildfires Burn, Are U.S. Cities Spending Too Much on Their Fire Departments?
Federal firefighting is understaffed. Yet in cities, fire department budgets grow even as structure fires decline
On Top of the Pandemic, Hospitals Face Another Crisis: Children and Teenagers Are Being Shot in Record Numbers
Already this year, at least 13,000 people have been killed by guns, according to one tally. More than 1,000 of them were children and teenagers.