Spencer Grady-Pawl
Spencer Grady-Pawl is the former Communications Intern for the American Humanist Association.
Posts by Spencer Grady-Pawl
You Be the Judge: Is Trump Forming One Court, under God?
Trump’s judicial nominations reveal that his unholy alliance with the religious right runs deep. Many individuals with truly concerning records are included within a... Read More
Cut the BS with BDS
Most of us are familiar with the word “apartheid,” an Afrikaans word meaning “separateness.” Perhaps less familiar is the Hebrew word for separation—“hafrada”—used to... Read More
Richard Spencer Pays $10,000 to Get Heckled
What bothers me most about Richard Spencer is obviously the white nationalism, but a close second is the fact that he’s defiling the name... Read More
Are Values Voters Victims of the Hyper-Conservative Machine?
“I can’t get no… satisfaction,” sang Mick Jagger as I wandered the exhibit hall. Neither could I, given that I was at the 2017... Read More
Now It’s Personal: When Things Hit Home for Politicians
In one of the most effective moments of the 2012 vice presidential debate between Joe Biden and Paul Ryan, Biden got emotional talking about... Read More
Soft on STDs
A recent report from the Center for Disease Control (CDC) indicates that this country saw a record number of cases of sexually transmitted disease... Read More
MisDEMeanor: When It Comes to Legislators and Civil Disobedience, Why Is It Only the Dems?
Three democratic representatives walk into a jail. No, that’s not the set-up for a joke. It’s something that happened recently in New York, when... Read More