A directive from the Obama administration will advise officials at U.S. public school districts to allow transgender students access to restrooms that match accordingly with their gender identity.
The exceedingly conservative 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled against an Obama administration plan that would have allowed millions of undocumented families to remain in the country. On Monday night, the 5th agreed with a lower court, ruling that the immigration plan couldn’t be enforced while 26 states are…
An appeals court has once again told the University of Notre Dame that their religious freedom is not being compromised by the fact that they have to fill out a two-page form to get out of covering birth control. The Seventh U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago ruled yesterday that the Obama Administration wasn’t…
Since last summer, Homeland Security has been routinely holding women and children in detention centers across Texas and New Mexico. Under pressure from border states, the Obama administration made the decision in order to stave off the large influx of undocumented workers. But the policy has been applied broadly,…
Less than a month after President Obama restored full diplomatic relations with Cuba, his administration announced Thursday that they'll ease travel restrictions to the country for U.S. citizens. That means you'll no longer have to pretend you're going as part of a church group or for "professional research."
"This isn't a PSA about a sexual assault," Jon Hamms voice intones in the White House's latest PSA for their It's On Us Campaign, which aims to prevent sexual assault. "It's about being the guy who stops it."
On the heels of the State of the Union address, President Obama's administration is spending Wednesday talking to the little people, on their first "virtual" Big Block of Cheese Day.
The Obama administration will announce a new regulation Friday that would require insurance companies to treat mental health and substance abuse coverage the same way they cover physical ailments. A big deal!
No, this isn't a Leslie Knope stress dream: according to a new book about the 2012 Presidential election, some top White House aides thought it would be a good idea to replace Vice President Joe Biden with then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as a way to bolster Obama's floundering approval ratings. Imagine what…
YES: Earlier today, the Department of Justice notified the badass U.S. District Judge Edward Korman that they'll comply with his order to allow girls of any age to buy emergency contraception without prescriptions. The DOJ is submitting a plan for compliance, and if Korman approves it, they'll drop their appeal of …
Well, this is certainly some outside-the-box thinking. The federally-run National Endowment for the Arts has put $100,000 towards an experimental, informative video game out of the Spelman College of Atlanta called HERadventure, which takes on 2012's "war on women" with a dystopian spin.
America's a pretty divided country when it comes to most political matters. Old white dudes are pretty upset that "traditional America" is no longer, young people of color are dismayed that old white dudes are still in charge, and Congress, as Congress is wont to do, is fucking up. But at least one Washington fixture…
After Vice President Joe Biden said that he thinks gay marriage is just fine and dandy and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan agreed that he didn't have a problem with it, either, the President's been in a bit of a No Homo mode. I mean, he's sort of okay with the idea of gay marriage, as long as the gay marriage…
Yesterday, the Obama administration announced that the definition of rape will finally be updated to include shit you already probably thought should've been in there. This is important because crime rates as reported by the FBI are used to determine how much money is allotted to anti-rape initiatives and victims'…
Melody Barnes, who has worked with President Obama on domestic policy since the 2008 campaign, will resign from her post at the White House at the end of the year.
By this summer, we'll know if contraception will be fully covered — i.e. free — under health insurance reform. The two battles ahead: Getting it counted as "preventative care," and working out the privacy issues for anyone under 26.
A leak from a forthcoming Pentagon study of ending Don't Ask, Don't Tell reveals that the troops don't give a shit about serving with the gays. Will John McCain clap his hands over his ears and singsong again?
The Root's Dayo Olopade writes about 28-year-old Kristen Jarvis, "special assistant for scheduling and traveling" to the First Lady. Jarvis, who's worked for the Obamas for five years, has done something no one in her position has ever done:
The Politico has published the first in a two part series exploring the marginalization of the GOP. Way to start stoking the fire for conspiracy theorists.
