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Read my piece on a new, but significant move by HHS to roll back Obama-era protections for trans people and women who have had abortions. Obama called it as LGBT rights. Trump calls it executive overreach:https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/05/trumps-rollback-lgbt-protections-obamacare/590239/ …

Today, the Trump admin has put a flag in the ground on executive overreach--which is most sensitive, and controversial, when it comes to LGBT rights. Without action from Congress, these fights have to play out in the courts and agencies. 6/xhttps://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/05/trumps-rollback-lgbt-protections-obamacare/590239/ …

The most controversial of these Obama-era rulings was on the Affordable Care Act--a rule that never went into effect. It was only a matter of time before HHS rolled that back. 5/xhttps://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/05/trumps-rollback-lgbt-protections-obamacare/590239/ …

The Obama admin tried to create LGBT protections through agency rulings, interpreting existing "sex discrimination" prohibitions to include gender identity, for example. Many advocates-conservative and not-saw this as major executive overreach. 4/xhttps://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/05/trumps-rollback-lgbt-protections-obamacare/590239/ …

The reason this debate is happening at all is that Congress has never passed federal non-discrimination protections for LGBT people. The current landscape is a patchwork of state laws and conflicting court decisions. 3/xhttps://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/05/trumps-rollback-lgbt-protections-obamacare/590239/ …

Across the legal system, there is a huge debate about whether existing civil-rights laws protect LGBT people against discrimination on sexual orientation or gender identity. SCOTUS is about to hear cases on this. 2/xhttps://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/05/trumps-rollback-lgbt-protections-obamacare/590239/ …

Big news in the world of health care+LGBT rights today: HHS initiated the reversal of a controversial Obama-era rule that would have expanded "sex discrimination" to cover trans people and women who've sought abortions. Let me tell you why this is big.1/xhttps://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/05/trumps-rollback-lgbt-protections-obamacare/590239/ …

This is a story that everyone--Christians, Americans, foreign-policy wonks, lovers of democracy--should know about. I hope you will read my story about the impossible future of Christians in the Middle East. 8/xhttps://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2019/05/iraqi-christians-nineveh-plain/589819/ …

This is not the first time a historic group has been squeezed out of the ME. The Christians I met in Iraq repeatedly reminded me that Jews, too, once lived in this land. Some are fighting to stay. They also know a sustainable future seems impossible. 7/xhttps://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2019/05/iraqi-christians-nineveh-plain/589819/ …

Since 2003, more than a million people-80 percent of the Christian population-have left. The story is replayed across the region: Christians & other minorities are being pushed out of their homelands by governments that don't care about pluralism. 6/xhttps://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2019/05/iraqi-christians-nineveh-plain/589819/ …

In Detroit this winter, Catrin and Ivan told me about the smells and foods and sacred holidays of Karamles. They miss it terribly. They also do not think they will ever go back. 5/xhttps://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2019/05/iraqi-christians-nineveh-plain/589819/ …

Thabet's sister, Catrin, left Iraq right before ISIS came. Her husband worked for the U.S. military. They felt they could not be safe in their town. 4/xhttps://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2019/05/iraqi-christians-nineveh-plain/589819/ …

One brother, Thabet, is a priest in a town called Karamles. He sustained his neighbors for years while ISIS occupied their home. Now that ISIS is gone, he wants people to come home, to return to normal. He cannot even convince his own family to stay. 3/xhttps://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2019/05/iraqi-christians-nineveh-plain/589819/ …

I traveled to the Nineveh Plain in Iraq, a strip of land that is the focus of epic bible stories and tense geopolitical wrangling. I met a family there that embodies the impossible struggle that Christians face in staying in the region. 2/xhttps://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2019/05/iraqi-christians-nineveh-plain/589819/ …

Today, The Atlantic published a piece I have been working on for a long time, about one of the most powerful stories of our time: The decimation of Christianity in the Middle East. This is tragic, on its face. But it's also devastating for democracy. 1/xhttps://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2019/05/iraqi-christians-nineveh-plain/589819/ …

For a broad look at why the Catholic Church's abuse response has been so dysfunctional, read my exclusive reporting on Cardinal Sean O'Malley and the Archdiocese of Boston from earlier this year:https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/02/sean-omalley-pope-francis-catholic-church-sex-abuse/582658/ …

In spite of everything, including intervention from the pope, the Catholic Church's response to the sexual abuse is still a hodgepodge, especially when it comes to publishing lists of known abusers. Great piece by @RaRhttps://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/21/nyregion/catholic-church-sexual-abuse.html …

"We hold three prayer services a day ... Some of our most central religious activities simply cannot be performed without the presence of others. These gatherings make us vulnerable." @Leah_Sarna on the recent apparent arsons at synagogues:https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/05/my-chicago-synagogue-was-firebombed-but-were-staying/589864/ …

Things I learned today: NZ Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is a former member of the LDS Church.https://janariess.religionnews.com/2019/05/20/new-zealand-pm-ardern-is-the-face-of-a-new-generation-of-former-mormons/ …