Between 2012 and 2015, Morris County, New Jersey awarded twelve religious institutions $4.6 million in taxpayer money to repair or maintain church buildings. But in a victory for the state’s taxpayers, the New Jersey Supreme... Read More

In Genesis 1:29 God says, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it." But according to Tadeusz Pacholczyk, an ethicist and director of education at the National Catholic Bioethics Center in Philadelphia,... Read More

Donald Trump’s takeover of the Republican Party’s legislative arm is largely complete (except for Senate leadership, which remains firmly under the control of uber-survivor Mitch McConnell). While all political parties experience cyclical realignments as new... Read More

By now, plenty of us have seen the almost endless documentation in the media of the effects our plastic reliance has had on oceans: from the diver swimming through a sea of plastic near Bali,... Read More

A fundamental aspect of any democracy is the understanding that the military should be subservient to civilian control and that certain tasks and political positions should only be held by private citizens. This is in... Read More

A civil rights group has called for the removal of a large white cross that sits on Sackrider Hill, which is state-owned property in Jackson County, Michigan. The Michigan Association of Civil Rights Activists (MACRA),... Read More

In September 2017, the ACLU sued the state of Michigan for working with faith-based adoption agencies that regularly incorporate discriminatory practices. This case, Dumont v. Lyon, is in the court for the Eastern District of... Read More