Wedding season is beginning here in Minnesota as the snow melts and temperatures rise. As a humanist celebrant, I collaborate with couples seeking a... Read More

Donald Trump’s takeover of the Republican Party’s legislative arm is largely complete (except for Senate leadership, which remains firmly under the control of uber-survivor... Read More

Once A Jew: Although I was raised in a nominally Jewish family, I began rejecting religion when I was about eleven and stopped participating in... Read More

By now, plenty of us have seen the almost endless documentation in the media of the effects our plastic reliance has had on oceans:... Read More

Washington, DC, lost a cable television station last week when “RT America,” a Russian government funded operation, went dark (though it remains available via... Read More

Wild, Wild County, the six-part Netflix documentary series, is much like its main character, Ma Anand Sheela: dark, complicated, multi-layered, and mysterious. On one... Read More

Last Saturday, April 7, over 100 people gathered at All Souls Church in Washington, DC, for the second biannual Secular Social Justice (SSJ) conference,... Read More

po·et·ry ˈpōətrē/ noun Literary work in which special intensity is given to the expression of feelings and ideas by the use of distinctive style... Read More

On Monday, April 2, the Supreme Court issued an unsigned per curiam opinion, ruling in favor of a police officer who in 2010 shot... Read More

Ready Player One suffers from the same flaws as the eponymous novel it's based on (written by Ernest Cline)—awful dialogue, lifeless characters, and the... Read More