It’s easy to say “Christianity justified slavery and Jim Crow” and blame the church for the current racial situation, but what are atheists doing right now to address these issues, other than complain about how... Read More

OVER THE last few years the use of drones—unmanned aerial vehicles—has generated much debate and concern in the media and among the public. How concerned should we all be? According to data from the International... Read More

IN HIS EIGHTY-FIVE spins around the sun, Kurt Vonnegut managed to make people smile about the darkest aspects of the human condition. One of his most famous novels, the 1963 campus classic, Cat’s Cradle, deals... Read More

IF YOU aren’t familiar with Brian Sims, a Democratic member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, he’s a history maker. The first and so far only NCAA football captain to come out of the closet... Read More

THERE'S A PROVERB often attributed to Euripides that warns: “Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.” Ellen Harrison knows what the ancients were on about. In 2008, in a moment of what she... Read More

To be African American in the 1920s was hard enough, to be a female author in the publishing industry somewhat more daunting, and to be one who held that religion perpetuated rather than combated the... Read More

This article is part of Carl Coon’s ongoing “A Short History of Evolution” series. Click here to read Part 2. Are there answers to the eternal questions of what we are and how we came... Read More