Last week, researchers at Yale University released a new, interactive map that breaks down what Americans really think about climate change, and the answers may surprise some readers. Overall, 63 percent of Americans acknowledge that... Read More

This article has been updated from a post that first appeared on December 16, 2011, at the former Rant ‘n Reason blog. Christopher Hitchens would have been sixty-six years old today. I once met him... Read More

Those who strongly support public education may not always realize how nationalistic it is, but from what is taught in publicly funded schools to how it’s being taught, curricula are a reflection of a nation’s... Read More

Last week, humanists were outraged when Indiana Governor Mike Pence signed a bill that would, among other things, allow businesses to deny service to same-sex couples looking to get married. Hopefully, pressure from numerous large... Read More

Last Tuesday’s CNN special was a forty-five minute feature on atheists in America that advertised itself as an exposé of “how the other side lives” (they referred to atheists by “the ‘A’ word”). Yet disappointingly,... Read More

The news looks grim for women in a recently released report by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research. Though women make up half of the workforce in the United States, their earnings still lag behind... Read More

Growing up in Texas, I was intimately familiar with “country life” and all that comes with it: good food, colorful characters, pervasive religiosity, fishing, hunting, and a suspicious attitude towards the government and “outsiders.” This... Read More