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We might be looking at the wrong bogeymen. Two surveys reveal moderate centrists, not extremists,...

Around the world, conservative people are more suspicious of science and facts than liberals. They're...

Whales are a majestic example of how evolution over eons can transform a terrestrial mammal...

Did you know that "Mary Poppins" is somehow related to polio? Me neither.

Public-health experts are begging Americans to wear face masks and stay home for Thanksgiving. Still,...

What do many famous scientists and notables in history have in common? The feared religious...

Famous people, like Jesus, greatly help ideas go viral. That's why it's important to note...

Christianity and Trumpian demogoguery have a lot in common: a reliance on misinformation — fake...

As the technology to spread disinformation grows more sophisticated and easy to use, truth faces...

Donald Trump has signalled he will fight his 2020 election defeat in the courts and...

Religious people cannot just talk the talk about their doctrines' supposedly inherent peacefulness. They must...

Winning isn't everything, in politics as in life. Win or lose, a contest sometimes carries...

In confirming new judges, the president and GOP-controlled Senate are being hypocrites. They're packing the...

More than 227,000 Americans are now dead (and counting) from the pandemic, as the president...

The word "save" has multiple meanings, profound or silly — or both simultaneously.

No matter how profound he seemed, the late Christian apologist C.S. Lewis was just a...

When the Trump era ends, hopefully very, very soon, we should start talking immediately about...

Diana Nyland is a famous American extreme swimmer who feels existential awe in nature's presence....

Now that the president of the United States and his wife are infected with COVID-19,...

Watch out. Americans United for Separation of Church and State warn that evangelicals have launched...

You'd think the capacity for common sense would be a godsend. But, can it be...

Let's not forget the children. As nontheists try to block evangelical Christianity's assaults on America's...

A starving lioness is hot on the heels of a mama wildebeest. If you were...

Donald Trump's ex-National Security chief fears the Russian president "has something on him." I think...

Much as true believers would like to think, religious art does not depict reality. Thinking...

The U.S. attorney general's insistence that America is a Judeo-Christian construct is an old idea...

If you think you know what's what, stay alert. The Trump administration is doing every...

From all the racous hazzahs at Donald Trump's GOP re-nomination acceptance speech Thursday night, you'd...

Christian apostacy is often driven by the same doubts. Ex-fundamentalist Baptist author Seth Andrews explains...

Human beings are fluent in nonsense, widely believing in all kinds of suppositions with no...