Appeals court will reconsider decision that allowed Trump to deploy National Guard troops to Portland ...

Autumn Gardiner thought updating her driving license would be straightforward. After getting married last year, she headed to the local Department of Motor Vehicles office in Connecticut to get her ...

Meryl Streep’s heartwarming speech about Diane Keaton has gone viral in the wake of the Annie Hall star’s death. The Oscar-winning actor, whose wit, warmth and individuality made her one of ...

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Half the states restrict efforts to change a person's identity in treatment. COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- Conversion therapy, or the attempt to change a patient’s sexual orientation or gender identity ...

"It’s easier to talk here than it is in America," the comedian told an audience at the Riyadh Comedy Festival. By James Hibberd Writer-at-Large Dave Chappelle criticized the status of free speech in ...

Five young women are staring anxiously at a laptop. This is the call they’ve long been waiting for. A flurry of mixed emotions takes over as they each learn they have been selected by FIFA for the ...

President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave speeches Tuesday to a gathering of United States generals and admirals hastily ordered to gather from around the world. The unprecedented ...

Ariel Messman-Rucker is an Oakland-born journalist who now calls the Pacific Northwest her home. When she’s not writing about politics and queer pop culture, she can be found reading, hiking, or ...

I’ve never been more alarmed about the state of our democracy. The U.S. is sliding toward authoritarianism faster than ever, while corporate media turns a blind eye. That’s why Common Dreams exists—to ...

“Free speech is at the lowest ebb it has been in Britain since the eighteenth century,” the U.K. Free Speech Union’s founder and president Toby Young, recently ennobled, told me over lunch at the ...

When Jimmy Kimmel returned to television on Tuesday evening, the late-night host had sharp words for the conservatives who’d briefly forced him off the air. President Donald Trump had put Disney, ...