A small legal challenge has turned into a precedent-setting case about whether someone in today’s Britain can be prioritised or denied housing on the basis of their religion. The law isn’t always right and it’s not just people who can be taken hostage. In a disgraceful decision deemed legitimate by the UK’s highest court, a single mother with four children was refused social housing – because... 

Arizona voters will decide in November whether to ban state and local governments from discrimination or preferential treatment based on race, ethnicity and sex. The state constitutional amendment doesn’t use the term “affirmative action,” but there is no disputing that is what Proposition 107 is aimed at eliminating. Such programs generally give preferences to minorities. Proponents...