It isn’t often that a serious politician defies the God lobby head on. There are gadflies now and then, for whom we can all be grateful. And there are plenty of me-tooers once a sensible... Read More

The struggle against the interlocking of church and state, challenging billions of dollars of God industry revenues, normally generates a great deal more bad news than good. The past few months, though, have seen a... Read More

The Democratic National Committee (DNC) finally got around to issuing a formal statement and apology about the leaked email demonizing atheists that created such a ruckus at the outset of their convention. An apology that... Read More

The images flooding out of Turkey three weekends ago were startling. Tanks rolled down streets and jets screamed overhead in an attempted military coup that looked like it belonged in a twentieth-century banana republic rather... Read More

Who says there’s nothing new under the sun? Both houses of the Illinois legislature have passed and sent on to the governor something genuinely new in America: a bill to create a state board to... Read More

So much news this summer has been depressing. But if you’re a news junkie looking for a belly-laugh not associated with Donald Trump, all you need do is turn east, to Vatican City. Back in... Read More

The day before Omar Mateen stepped into an Orlando nightclub catering to the LGBTQ community and murdered forty-nine innocent people, the US Postal Service issued a new stamp celebrating Islam and its major holiday Ramadan.... Read More