Two afflictions shared by a majority of the public are dragging down our advancements as a civilization and a species.

Pundits are hailing Pat Robertson's hateful tirade against atheists after an attack on a Sikh temple as a step forward in inter-faith relations. That's both telling and disturbing.

Companies are becoming so unreasonably picky that management experts and consultants are alarmed. Potential employees should be too.

Religious fundamentalists are deeply offended that people no longer fear them and feel free to criticize their worst habits.

A healthcare system based on arbitrary networks and prices, and who everyone avoids fixing under sociopathic pretenses is bound to be perpetually broken.

Would a draft really discourage more Americans from supporting wars abroad?

Trying to balance the national budget by cutting space exploration is like trying to pay off a mortgage with spare change from your couch and forgoing a raise.

Politico sounds the alarm on ignorant voters, the voters who refuse to follow the news and won't even try to learn how their government works.

Michael Ruse once again shows us why accommodationists don't understand science and how it works, and don't want to understand it.

American voters want scientists to solve their problems out of sight and out of mind. They certainly don't want them in office.

Conspiracy ideation is at its purest form when it comes to partisan politics.

People of faith contribute to society in countless ways. Fundamentalists, however, are a millstone around its neck.

The self-proclaimed radical transparency activist who wants to hold the world's right and powerful accountable is getting awfully chummy with Putin & Co...

"Yeah, sure he's not that good. But he's a man of such deep faith!"

Should we take Apollo astronauts' advice and send our politicians into space to give them a sense of scale?