This past December resolutions were introduced in both the U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives to designate February 12 Darwin Day, in recognition... Read More

Seemingly overnight, a virus once previously thought to be mild has received national attention and elicited warnings from international organizations. Spreading now across more... Read More

I'VE LONG BEEN what the author of this issue’s cover story and other animal welfare advocates would call a human speciesist. This means that... Read More

Well then, it’s settled. There will be no death for you who have accepted fiction over fact and value culture over the cultivation of... Read More

A DISPUTE OVER A RECYCLED TIRE program in Missouri could erode the wall of separation between church and state and compel millions of Americans... Read More

(Note: contains ethnic and ableist slurs) IT CAN BE A TRICKY BALANCE to say the right thing. There are things I say in private,... Read More

I COULD IDENTIFY AS demi-romantic, demi-sexual, cisgender, non-monogamous and pan-erotic. Or I could just identify as myself. However, it seems that finding new words... Read More

I LOVED MY MOTHER. I’m sure you love your mother, too. Joan Adele Rice Naff (1931-2015) would be indignant to find clichés here, so... Read More

BOOK BY TA-NEHISI COATES SPIEGEL & GRAU; 2015 176 PP.; $24.00 The Black Lives Matter movement confused me at first. I didn’t understand why... Read More

BOOK BY SIKIVU HUTCHINSON INFIDEL BOOKS, 2015 325 PP., $10.95 Sikivu Hutchinson heads Black Skeptics Los Angeles and is a social justice activist as... Read More