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As adoptions collapse, demand for international surrogacy is soaring
As rich-world adoption has plummeted, demand for surrogacy has grown. It has also been fuelled by rising infertility, an increase in the acceptability of singles and gay couples choosing to have ...
Perspective: The Ten Commandments case points the way to more inclusive religious expression
A federal appeals court case about displaying the Ten Commandments in Louisiana public schools is poised to become the next ...
Québec’s religious symbols law: Appealing to the Supreme Court for real rights under the Charter
Despite a finding by the Québec Superior Court that Bill 21 has a cruel and dehumanizing impact on Muslim women, the law has survived. Now, the Supreme Court of Canada will hear challenges to it.
Throughline on Trump’s executive orders: ignoring the law. So far, he isn’t paying a political price.
But beyond the immediate policy impacts, there is a broader and more troubling pattern emerging: a flagrant challenge to the ...
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Many governments talk about cutting regulation but few manage to
H e brandished a chainsaw at campaign rallies, to signify his eagerness to clear-cut the thickets of bureaucracy and ...
The Law Is Not Fully Trump’s Yet
Through the sometimes blinding storm of executive orders and memorandums in the opening days of President Trump’s new ...