THE NEXT TIME SOMEONE SAYS, “There’s no point in calling my members of Congress, it doesn’t make any difference, I already know how they’re going to vote,” I’m going to scream. If there ever was... Read More

WHAT CAN WE DO? In the face of the Donald Trump regime, the collaboration and capitulation of the Republican-majority Congress, the threats to the US system of checks and balances, and the rise of the... Read More

We need to resist. I don’t know what exactly this resistance will look like. I’m finishing this column just three weeks after the 2016 presidential election, and like many people I’m still recovering from the... Read More

NIKI MASSEY DIED on October 1, 2016, at the age of thirty-five. Chances are good you don’t know who Niki Massey was, that you never heard her name until just now. I want to talk... Read More

Ageism is a funny form of marginalization. Not funny “ha ha”; funny peculiar. It’s the only form of marginalization I can think of that works in both directions. Young people are dismissed as irresponsible and... Read More

WHEN SOMEONE WE LOVE DIES, it can intensely undermine our sense of stability and safety. Our lives have been changed forever, generally by forces we had no control over—and it can feel as if nothing’s... Read More

YOU MAY HAVE already heard the news. There’s a new kid in town—The Orbit, at the-orbit.net, a diverse collective of atheist and nonreligious bloggers committed to social justice within and outside the secular community. Launched... Read More