THE RISING TIDE OF NONRELIGIOUS people in the United States is accompanied by an intense focus on the “New Atheism,” which, rightly or wrongly,... Read More

I had mixed feelings when I learned that the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) had signed a memorandum of understanding with the Boy Scouts of... Read More

Over the past several years toxic canards like “abortion is black genocide” and “the most dangerous place for a black child is the womb,”... Read More

The challenge for a magazine published by a nonprofit that enjoys tax-exempt status is to discuss the U.S. presidential election without directly supporting or... Read More

Tell me about the vines of leaves crawling this brick wall. Explain by way of calculus their seasonal change— I want to know, too,... Read More

ACROSS THE COUNTRY, people are making strange claims about religious freedom. That principle, we’re told, allows a photographer, or a baker, or a wedding... Read More

YOU MAY HAVE already heard the news. There’s a new kid in town—The Orbit, at the-orbit.net, a diverse collective of atheist and nonreligious bloggers... Read More

THEY'RE OUT TO GET ME. Not people, exactly—I’m not that paranoid. I don’t think. Maybe I am. But the signs are out there. Warnings.... Read More

JUST ABOUT EVERYONE working on antiracism today is frustrated. The country as a whole—black, white, liberal, and conservative—has descended a staircase of despair, apathetic... Read More

THE U.S. PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARY season is nearing its final stage. The GOP’s smorgasbord of candidates for the presidency has finally been reduced to three... Read More