
Banning transgender athletes is wrong science and bad for women’s sports
There’s a disturbing new phenomenon we’ve recently observed at the state level.

There’s a disturbing new phenomenon we’ve recently observed at the state level.

Christian nationalists and theocrats have unleashed a torrent of hostile bills in state legislatures around the country that secularists must oppose.

It’s becoming a story as old as the church itself: A young sexual assault survivor courageously reports his or her abuser, only to be shunned and abused again, while the abuser escapes punishment and rises in the ranks of the church.

How does one deal most effectively with QAnon-type conspiracy theories? And what lessons do the nation’s Founders have to offer us in this regard?

A recent article by a creationist hack for the National Review (the flagship conservative publication) preposterously argues that Canada is stifling religious freedom and that we are headed in the same direction.

I’m accustomed to being a villain. As an attorney at the Freedom From Religion Foundation, it’s part of our job description. We’re used to being unjustly vilified.

As the nation reflects on the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King’s assassination today, we also mourn the loss of another legendary civil rights activist, Linda Brown, who died last week.

There has been a lot of buzz about net neutrality over the past year — and rightly so. Net neutrality is the concept that your

For many years, the City of Menominee, Mich., erected a large, stand-alone Christian nativity scene in a city park.
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