Who Wants to Be a Rocket Scientist? Race, Gender, and the STEM Divide
Say What? The End of Net Neutrality and a Globalization Treaty Threaten Minority Speech
Few could argue that the Internet hasn’t revolutionized gay life. A generation came out on the web, and the freedom to launch a website adhering to one’s own standards of quality and authenticity has always... Read More
Combating Thought Pollution The case for scientific literacy
I’ve recently found myself in a bit of a verbal joust with a columnist in my local newspaper’s conservative-leaning op-ed pages. He, like so many others of his ideological bent, doesn’t believe global warming is... Read More
Grinch or Greater Good The War on the Humanist Image
As the holiday season got into full swing, the American Humanist Association (AHA) took some heat from the religious right for blocking a public school from participating in Operation Christmas Child, which distributes shoeboxes containing... Read More
Don’t Tear Down This Wall
A 2012 Gallup poll showed only 54 percent of U.S. citizens would be willing to vote for a well-qualified presidential candidate if that person happened to be an atheist. For women and African-American candidates, it’s... Read More
Belief in the Almighty Dollar: Why We Need an Atheist PAC
I have a dream that one day Americans will judge their candidates on the content of their character and their political positions, rather than on their professed religious beliefs. I have a dream that one... Read More
For Which It Stands Secular patriots want to be honest when they recite the Pledge of Allegiance
When Congress inserted the words “under God” into the Pledge of Allegiance in 1954, its intent was clear: to strike “at the philosophical roots of communism, atheism, and materialism.” So declared the sponsor of the... Read More
