Every week, New York Magazine writer-at-large Frank Rich talks with contributor Eric Benson about the biggest stories in politics and culture. This week: SCOTUS defeats DOMA, the Voting Rights Act suffers a mortal wound, and Obama fights back on climate change. The Supreme Court struck down the Defense of Marriage Act this morning, while dismissing the case over California's Prop 8. The result is that same-sex marriages will now resume in California and married gay couples everywhere can receive federal marriage benefits. How important are these decisions? And what lies ahead for the gay-rights movement? The DOMA decision is momentous, broad, and moving, sending to a just oblivion one of the...
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