During the UN General Assembly in September, at an event dubbed a “Global Call to Protect Religious Freedom,” US President Donald Trump announced the formation of a coalition of American
business leaders whose mandate will be... Read More

In case you forgot, on August 21 Donald Trump thanked conspiracy theorist Wayne Allyn Root for saying that Israeli Jews love the president, “like he’s the King of Israel … like he is the second... Read More

Despite making up almost a quarter of the US adult population, people with no religion (the “nones”) are underrepresented in politics. According to the Pew Research Center’s “Faith on the Hill” report, few members of... Read More

After the latest round of mass shootings over the course of two weekends—gun violence that claimed a life in the Brownsville neighborhood of Brooklyn; four lives in Gilroy, California; twenty-two in El Paso, Texas; and... Read More

This summer I participated in the US State Department’s Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom on behalf of the American Humanist Association. The event, held July 16-18 in Washington, DC, was led by Ambassador-at-Large for International... Read More

Atrocities like the Alabama abortion bill proudly signed into law by Governor Kay Ivey on May 16 are some of the reasons why I’m an atheist and a humanist. Barefoot, pregnant, and bombed back to... Read More

We’ve all experienced pointing out a new fact to someone and seeing them acknowledge it, and even incorporate it into their thinking. I’ve even had this experience with public petitions pushed on powerful people. But... Read More