How do nonreligious people repent?

Greater school choice might be preferable to trying to create one curriculum that offends no one.

Right-wing justices are giving wide latitude to elected officials to impose their religious views.

A more blatantly corrupt and cruel administration than any we've seen before—but it's not too late to stop it.

Does belief in objective value make us more or less likely to fight and kill each other?

America has been divided for 250 years. If we make it to 500, will we be still having the same arguments or will we have outgrown them?

If Fetterman became a Republican, it would be nearly impossible for Democrats to win a Senate majority in 2026.

World leaders are marching us toward an uncertain era of new warfare — fast.

The first American secularists were deists. Would the freethought movement benefit from emulating their example?

Constitutional democracy cannot work without a settled cultural consensus that reasoned debate will lead society closer to truth, although, of course, never fully attaining it.

The courts have blessed anti-democratic gerrymandering.

Supreme Court justice issued statement when leaving the Democratic party

Indonesia models a different kind of secularism, premised on religious diversity and coexistence.

Recently, a Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court decision struck down Pennsylvania’s statutory ban on Medicaid benefits for abortions. Around the same time, the U.S. Supreme Court granted review of C...

We live in an era without religious assumptions, but do we know how to live without them?

In writings, Cole Tomas Allen thanked his church and argued that his attempt to assassinate Trump administration officials was compatible with his faith.

It is not easy to name the worst Supreme Court decision in American history.The Dred Scott case in 1857 helped bring about the Civil War and its racist...

We live in an age of political unreason. Unless we are learn to think more reasonably, especially rejecting our own side’s partisan lies, America...

he Social Security program is running out of money. The Social Security Administration estimates that by 2034, payroll taxes will cover around 75% of scheduled...

hy has there been so little progress combatting climate change in America? It’s not because the whole thing is a hoax, as President Donald Trump...

Does Eastern philosophy hold the answer to finding meaning in a godless world?

Pennsylvania senator John Fetterman was right to break with his fellow Democrats and vote against a potential funding cut-off for the current war against...

The Supreme Court not only did the right thing in striking down President Donald Trump’s tariffs, the justices may have saved the Republic in doing...

Now that Pennsylvania’s Democratic Sen. John Fetterman has decided to support voter ID, an almost purely Republican cause, it’s time to revisit...

To rediscover our values, we first have to forge a new foundation for them.

I am sometimes asked why I am not more upset about the outrageous conduct of President Donald Trump. Partly it’s a personal choice. I promised myself...

From the public record, it certainly appears that the shooting death of Renee Good on Jan. 7 by ICE agent Jonathan Ross was the result of excessive force....

The columnists, contributing writers and others this week will be commenting on Donald Trump’s first year, on the anniversary week of his second...

Secular thinkers should be open to all varieties of human experience.

It is customary at the beginning of a new year for columnists to make predictions, but President Donald Trump frustrates prediction.  His leadership...

On Dec.16, the Springdale Borough Council reluctantly approved the construction of a new AI data center in the borough. The agonizing process that led...

Religion, for all its faults, gives life a sense of narrative.

Many Americans are frightened by President Donald Trump’s politicization of the Justice Department. Trump has ordered federal prosecutors to pursue...

Should a Federal Judge speak where the press is barred? The Pittsburgh Lawyer Chapter of the Federalist Society is holding an event today that is “closed...

It makes for a better life when we practice secular humanist gratitude.

resident Donald Trump has been insisting that there be a full investigation into voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election. On Oct. 26, he again called...

The renewed focus on 2020 comes as Trump has begun to see results from his demands to prosecute his critics, including former FBI director James B. Comey.

Justice Amy Barrett writes in her recent book, “Listening to the Law,” that she is an originalist. She’s not. Neither are Justices...

We need a secular framework for human experiences of awe and deep meaning.

The Gaza war has stopped for now, as Israel and Hamas negotiate the terms of a White House sponsored peace deal. The Israeli hostages, or their remains,...

As I write this column, the federal government is in a partial shutdown that should not have happened. Governments should never shut down. Shutdowns are...

Seeking forgiveness, and granting it, makes us better people.

In the wake of the assassination of conservative activist and icon Charlie Kirk, The New York Times editorialized that we need “to turn down the...

On November 3, 2015, voters changed the makeup of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court by electing three Democratic Party candidates to 10-year terms: Christine...

I think former Attorney General Eric Holder has lost his mind. He suggested that Democrats in New York and California engage in extreme congressional district...

Are secular values the cause of our malaise?

At 5:15 a.m., on July 25, I came back inside the house from walking the dogs and asked Alexa for the temperature. The calm female voice responded, “In...