According to the Prison Policy Initiative’s 2018 report, the US criminal justice system holds nearly 2.3 million people (of the nation’s total 329 million... Read More

If you’re not interested in eating, you can skip this article and move on to the next. The technology underlying what we eat has... Read More

As the summer winds down and back-to-school season begins, public focus increases on funding for schools, teachers, and resources. While enrollment in public schools... Read More

"When somebody thinks God speaks to him, you've got trouble... Is there an afterlife? As far as I know, this is it. It's all... Read More

LAST FALL THE UNITED STATES and the Caribbean were battered by three devastating, record-breaking hurricanes—Harvey in Texas and Louisiana, Irma in the Caribbean and... Read More

THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH in the developed world is in collapse. This is true notwithstanding the current political resurgence of the religious right, which demographics... Read More

WE'RE REACHING THE END of the alphabet—and the end of a religious statistical oddity in the United States. Generation Z, more so than the... Read More

LIFE IS SAD FOR US SECULAR PEOPLE. Foregoing church and other religious communities, we endure our drab and dreary days without hope, fellowship, joy,... Read More

"I COULD NOT UNDERSTAND how anybody could rebel against a system so clearly benign." That authorial “I” was John Updike in his self-deluding memoir,... Read More

Computers aren’t bigoted—they’re just based on cold calculations, right? The past two years have featured a steady drumbeat of problems with various artificial intelligence... Read More