Spirit of the Law: Keeping Justice Alive in Red States
In January the Chattanooga Times Free Press reported that a lawyer named David Fowler, representing the Family Action Council of Tennessee’s Constitutional Government Defense Fund, wrote letters to all ninety-five county clerks in the state... Read More
If Voting Is So Important, Why Aren’t Fair, Open, Verifiable Elections Important?
It’s impossible in US society not to frequently encounter the demand to vote, no matter what, no matter for whom, as a basic civic duty. Voting is supremely important, we’re told, a right, a responsibility,... Read More
Shame Isn’t an Education
How did you learn about sex? Were you taught that it’s a natural part of life or that it’s a sin? Did you receive medically accurate information that prepared you to make safe and responsible... Read More
Trump Ignores Climate, Gets into Hot Water at UN General Assembly
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
King of This World: Irreligious Trump Remains Popular with Evangelicals
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
The Importance of Organized Secularism in Politics
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
Mottos, Prayers, Courses, and Clubs To Protect Students' Rights, We Must Keep Church and State Separate
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