The Single Greatest, Most Important, Most Influential Invention in the History of Humankind
THE ONION is a world-renowned satirical publication started in 1988 by University of Wisconsin-Madison undergraduates Tim Keck and Christopher Johnson. After gaining popularity in college towns and then on the Internet with the launch of... Read More
The Road to and from Extreme Religious Liberty
MARCI A. HAMILTON is one of the United States’ leading church/state scholars, a senior fellow at the University of Pennsylvania’s Program in Religion and Urban Civil Society, and holds the Paul R. Verkuil Chair in... Read More
Jesus is a Brand of Jeans
JEAN KILBOURNE is the author of Can’t Buy My Love: How Advertising Changes the Way We Think and Feel and So Sexy So Soon: The New Sexualized Childhood and What Parents Can Do to Protect... Read More
An Education: Challenging Bigotry in My High School and Beyond
As a high school student, Isaiah Smith challenged various church-state issues in his home state of Texas. His activism has been recognized by the Huffington Post, Dallas Voice, and TIME magazine. He is the founder... Read More
Beauty: An Excerpt from Barbara G. Walker’s Belief & Unbelief
Last week the Dalai Lama made headlines by saying, “That female must be attractive, otherwise it is not much use.” Leaving aside whether he was joking, whether statements like this are okay even if they... Read More
Raising Children in a Theocracy: Anonymous Parent Shares Personal Story of Living in Rabun County, Georgia
The American Humanist Association recently sent a letter to officials at the Rabun County School District in Tiger, Georgia, on behalf of a local parent objecting to the school district’s repeated promotion of Christianity, including... Read More
Water Wars: A US Legacy of Poor Natural Resource Management
Last week, Mother Jones reported that 5,433 people living in the world’s seventh largest economy have no running water—nothing coming out of their kitchen or bathroom faucets. This headline, which may seem more appropriate in... Read More