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

Corporate-backed “right-to-work” laws, such as the measure just passed in Wisconsin with the strong support of Republican presidential prospect Gov. Scott Walker, are a prime example of a double standard in modern American society, where... Read More

What do religion and astrobiology have to do with each other? At first glance, not much. But they both concern the meaning of life, with many religions purporting to have answers to the “right” questions... Read More

There are genuine heroes in the world, and you can often tell who they are by how much they are vilified. As a matter of course, social justice heroes who actually succeed in their cause... Read More

“Global warming.” “Climate change.” Whatever you call the dramatic shifts in temperature currently affecting our planet, the vast majority of the world’s scientists agree that the shifts are real and pose an urgent threat to... Read More