Noah Baron

Legislation May Reverse Civil Liberties-Violating Provisions of NDAA

Noah Baron

March 2, 2012

President Obama signed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) into law at midnight on January 1, 2012. This legislation, passed every year, authorizes funding for the United States military.

Bullying

LGBT Youth Suicides Are No “Rash”

Noah Baron

February 21, 2012

The phenomenon of LGBT teen suicide is not an aberration, but, tragically, the rule – and it has been for decades, if not more.

Bullying

Progress? Anoka-Hennepin Slightly Changes Policy on Homosexuality

Noah Baron

February 15, 2012

After 18 years of doing nothing to stop the bullying and suicides of Anoka-Hennepin school district middle and high school students, the Minnesota district has belatedly replaced its so-called “neutrality” policy, which, along with prohibiting any discussion

Hate Crimes

January Hate Crimes Watch: Real Violence, Real Victims

Noah Baron

February 9, 2012

Discussions of hate crimes often revolve around statistics and numbers, sometimes making it easy to lose sight of the human cost and the horrific nature of many of these attacks.

Appeals Court Strikes Down Proposition 8

Noah Baron

February 7, 2012

Today, the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Ninth District issued a ruling in the Perry v. Brown case (previously Perry v. Schwarzenegger), in which a number of same-sex California couples are arguing that Proposition 8, which stripped away