Harmeet Dhillon, who leads the Justice Department’s civil rights unit, has extracted flashy agreements and personnel moves from big universities and sought to force states to turn over confidential voter data.

With “The Disappearers,” the Booker Prize-winning author has written his most personal novel yet.

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President Trump issued an executive order barring transgender service members from the military as part of a broader attack on transgender rights.

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In 1980, feminists were often stereotyped as man-hating or out of touch. Then Parton gave the movement a boost — and an anthem.