The Banter Long Read: Earlier this week, the White House signaled its support for a bill that would criminalize all abortions after the 20th week of pregnancy... To continue reading this article, please go here. You'll get unrestricted access to all our member's content, and your ...read more

Among the manyreactions to the Supreme Court's Hobby Lobby decision, which granted women's bosses the power to deny them the access to contraception that the law says they're entitled to as part of their earned benefits, none were as clever or hilarious as that of Jasmine Shea. ...read more

151 years ago today, the Army of the Potomac under the command of Major General George Meade, narrowly thwarted total annihilation at the hands of Robert E. Lee and his First Corp commander, James Longstreet, in the hills outside a small Pennsylvania town called Gettysburg. If ...read more

It's been fascinating over the past 24 hours watching people react with confusion to the Supreme Court's ruling in the Hobby Lobby birth control case. This isn't because what the high court did was completely predictable, but because so many out there seem baffled that a ruling ...read more

President Obama declined to answer questions about the Supreme Court's ruling on the Hobby Lobby case this morning, so Monday morning's White House daily briefing provided the first opportunity for the administration to react to a decision that places employers' religious ...read more

In a 5-4 opinion, the Supreme Court ruled on Monday that Hobby Lobby Stores and all other closely held corporations cannot be compelled to provide contraceptives in the health care coverage they provide to employees. As part of the court's rationale, it deemed corporations ...read more