The Pew Research Center reported in 2022 that 1.6% of Americans are transgender or nonbinary. Among those aged 18-29, the figure hit 5 percent. That’s millions of people. They are children, our neighbors, our friends... Read More

It used to be, if you wanted a glimpse of what life would be like in an America that had become a nightmarish theocracy, you had to read a book like Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s... Read More

The U.S. Supreme Court’s June 30 ruling in 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis allowing a Colorado website designer to refuse to provide services to LGBTQ+ clients because of her religious beliefs is problematic on many... Read More

Humanism is more than simply waking up every morning and declaring that there is still no god. The recognition that no mystical force oversees our lives, no deity with a master plan controls our fate,... Read More

In midterm elections, the party that holds the White House normally loses seats in Congress—sometimes a lot of seats. In 1994, two years into Bill Clinton’s presidency, the Democrats lost fifty-four seats in the U.S.... Read More

As I was writing these words, the Supreme Court was poised to overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 ruling that established a right to abortion. By the time you read this, it may have... Read More

Books are in trouble in the United States. Books are being removed from public school curricula. Books are being banned. Books are being burned. The recent wave of censorship in America is accompanied by a... Read More