Sometimes angry calls for more civility in political and social discourse are necessary. And sometimes they're just a muzzle for partisan bloviators who can dish it out but can't take it.

If skeptics are trying to win hearts and minds, they need to remember that teaching kids real science and critical thinking can't be sidelined.

Inertia applies not only to objects with mass, but to bureaucracy and large institutions that have grown out of control.

Newly minted atheists are joining skeptical groups and those groups are not happy about it...

The Tea Party is gladly willing to sabotage science, education, technology, and anything else that reminds them that the world is changing because to them, change is scary.

Christopher Hitchens accurately dissects why very few sane people want to go into Western politics anymore.

Could Earth's population be slowly but surely shrinking over the long term?

Amazingly, Harrington High School will not be prosecuted for spying on its students at home through school-issued laptops and creating child porn in the process...

It's awfully hard to come up with ways to combat global warming when politicians are harassing climatologists for daring to conduct their research and find proof that the planet is heating up.

What do most atheists actually want? Surprisingly for many theists, it's not the abolition of faith...

For appearance of factual correctness, insult both sides of argument regardless of facts, rinse, repeat, sell book.

Germans are rallying against keeping their nuclear power plants open solely out of fear whipped up by environmental activists.

Today, extreme poverty is not an issue of insufficient resources, but of politics and allocation. And that makes it much harder to address.

According to the pope, his senior advisers, and ardent supporters, the Catholic Church molests kids because... atheists were literally Nazis?

Blasphemy is an important tool in a secular society, but it's not a good way for angry religious zealots to engage in a low brow tit-for-tat.