Bradford Richardson

Virginia transgender bathroom bill ruling threatens North Carolina’s HB2

The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals tore a hole in North Carolina's bathroom bill Tuesday, ruling in a separate Virginia case that public school students have a right to use the facilities of their self-identified gender, not necessarily their biological sex.

April 19, 2016

College students struggle to tell a white man he isn’t a Chinese woman

If a man identifies as a woman, then can a white person identify as Chinese? Or a short person as tall? That's what Joseph Backholm, director of the Family Policy Institute of Washington, went to the University of Washington to find out.

April 18, 2016

Supreme Court immigration case draws protest crowd

Immigration rights activists supplied plenty of thunder on an otherwise temperate Monday in the nation's capital, staging a lively and colorful demonstration as a landmark case challenging the constitutionality of President Obama's executive action deferring deportation for illegal immigrants was being argued before the Supreme Court.

April 18, 2016

Donald Trump mocked for claiming Republican nomination race is ‘rigged’

Republican officials and rival campaigns mocked Donald Trump's continuing claims that the Republican presidential primary race has been rigged, saying Sunday that the tycoon's poor showings in Colorado and Wyoming had more to do with his incompetence than party corruption.

April 17, 2016

Donald Trump reveals new nickname for Hillary Clinton — ‘Crooked’

Donald Trump has unveiled his new nickname for Hillary Clinton: "Crooked Hillary."

April 17, 2016

Corey Lewandowski, Donald Trump’s campaign manager, declines to apologize to ex-Breitbart reporter

Donald Trump's campaign manager said Sunday that it is "a little unrealistic" that he would apologize to a former Breitbart reporter who accused him of battery after an encounter last month in Florida.

April 17, 2016

John Kasich to Donald Trump: Stop whining!

John Kasich compared primary rival Donald Trump to a whiny schoolboy complaining about a math test.

April 17, 2016

Pope Francis meets with Bernie Sanders at Vatican; they discuss climate change, economy, morality

U.S. presidential candidate Bernie Sanders on Saturday met with Pope Francis to discuss climate change, foreign policy and the dearth of morality in the marketplace.

April 16, 2016

Supreme Court marriage ruling emboldens gay rights movement in religious liberty fight

If the debate over marriage looks like it's becoming more polarized, that's because it is.

April 14, 2016

Whitman College drops ‘imperialistic’ missionary mascot

A college named after American missionaries will no longer be known as the "Fighting Missionaries," after a committee ruled the mascot is "divisive" and "imperialistic."

April 14, 2016

Highly religious Americans are happier, more family-oriented: poll

A new survey suggests that religious believers are happier and more integrated into family life than their not-as-religious peers.

April 14, 2016

Women’s rights activists say Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act ‘a wolf in sheep’s clothing’

Feminist activists may find discrimination in the workplace deplorable, but they're all for discrimination in the womb. The House Judiciary Committee on Thursday will hold a hearing on the Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act (PRENDA), which would prohibit abortions sought solely on the basis of the race or sex of the unborn.

April 13, 2016

Ringo Starr cancels North Carolina concert in protest of transgender bathroom law

Former Beatles drummer Ringo Starr on Wednesday announced that he was canceling a show in North Carolina in protest of a law that prohibits people from using the public facilities of the opposite sex.

April 13, 2016

John Bel Edwards, Louisiana governor, rescinds religious liberty order

Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards on Wednesday signed an executive order establishing protections against discrimination for the LGBT community and rescinding an order aimed at protecting religious liberty singed by his predecessor.

April 13, 2016

Senators pressure NBA to move All-Star Game from North Carolina

A bipartisan group of senators on Tuesday asked National Basketball Association Commissioner Adam Silver to move the league's All-Star Game from Charlotte, North Carolina, in response to a law that prohibits people from using the public facilities of the opposite sex.

April 13, 2016

Pat McCrory clarifies North Carolina bathroom bill

North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory on Tuesday issued a clarification to a law prohibiting people from using the public facilities of the opposite sex, saying he had listened to "feedback" from his constituents and taking action to "affirm and improve the state's commitment to privacy and equality."

April 12, 2016

Georgetown students to host Planned Parenthood critic, Cecile Richards on same night

A pro-life student group announced Tuesday that it will host Abby Johnson, a former Planned Parenthood director who has become a pro-life advocate, at Georgetown University on the same night that Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards is scheduled to address the Catholic campus.

April 12, 2016

Federal court dismisses attempt to force Catholic hospitals to provide abortions

Calling the challenge "dubious," a federal court threw out Monday a lawsuit from the American Civil Liberties Union that sought to force a Catholic hospital system to provide abortions against its beliefs.

April 11, 2016

Race relations in America at all-time low: Poll

A poll finds that more than one-third of Americans say they worry "a great deal" about the state of race relations in the United States, the highest number in the poll's 15-year span.

April 11, 2016

IRS sued for refusing to release secret ‘church investigations’ procedures

Government watchdog groups have filed a motion in federal court to compel the IRS to reveal how it determines when to initiate "church investigations" after accusing the tax-collecting agency of "stonewalling" efforts to bring to light its procedures.

April 10, 2016