Meredith Thompson
Posts by Meredith Thompson (page 8)
Guggenheim Missed the Point: Freedom of Expression Shouldn’t Trump Cruelty
Last week the Guggenheim Museum in New York announced it would remove three exhibits from its current show, “Art and China After 1989: Theater... Read More
The Curious Case of the Missing—and Reappearing—Government Climate Change Data
Last week climate scientist Peter Gleick reported that the United States Geological Survey’s (USGS) Science Explorer—a taxpayer-funded online database for the public to browse... Read More
Urgent Need or Religious Exceptionalism? Texas Churches Sue FEMA for Reimbursement
Three Texas churches are suing the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) for excluding them from public assistance after they aided the community during Hurricane... Read More
Oppressive Atheism: In China, Religion Can Be a Form of Activism
China’s governing party, the Communist Party of China (CPC), recently banned the practice of religion for all of its 88+ million members in an... Read More
What Are “Ag-Gag” Laws and Why Should Humanists Oppose Them?
A federal judge ruled in early July that Utah’s 2012 “ag-gag” law is unconstitutional. The law criminalized whistleblowing in slaughterhouses and factory farms by... Read More
Between a Creationist’s Rocks and a Hard Place
A creationist just sued the US Department of the Interior and won. Andrew Snelling, is a geologist (awarded a PhD by the University of... Read More
No Man Is an Island—but Our Species Is Sinking Lots of Them
“Your island has been there for hundreds of years, and I believe your island will be there for hundreds more,” President Trump recently told... Read More