Author: Adam Lee

The archconservative justices of the Supreme Court have been enjoying a steady stream of gifts and luxury travel from right-wing billionaire friends. What checks and balances are there for a corrupt judiciary?

When books were rare and precious objects, their owners protected them with curses to deter thieves and vandals. We should adopt that same attitude of repugnance toward modern-day censors.

A growing movement of Christian evangelicals decries “expressive individualism,” or in other words, the freedom to make your own choices and decide what to do with your own life.A growing movement of Christian evangelicals decries “expressive individualism,” or in other words, the freedom to make your own choices and decide what to do with your…

Issue 1, a cynical attempt to persuade Ohioans to vote away their own power, goes down to resounding defeat. The way is cleared for reproductive autonomy to become a protected right in the Buckeye State.

Americans are overworked and overly devoted to the hustle, but that’s not why organized religion is declining. Church apologists trying to explain their decline always look outward, never inward at themselves.

In the new season of Neil Gaiman’s comedic fantasy, an angel and a devil have to save humanity, again—and sort out their own complicated relationship along the way.

Special Counsel Jack Smith’s indictment reveals how far Donald Trump and his collaborators were willing to go to overturn the election. American democracy had a very narrow escape indeed in 2020. A competent fascist could have overthrown the United States government. We came right up to the edge of killing democracy.

Would we be better off if government officials were chosen at random, rather than elected? It sounds like a radical idea, but it has an ancient pedigree. Some countries have experimented with it today and reaped surprising successes.

The religious right’s legislative strategy of the moment is to restrict abortion and gender transition because some people might later regret them. But why don’t they apply that same logic to other major life decisions?

Bidding farewell to a giant of the freethought movement, and looking back at his achievements and the progress he bore witness to over nine decades.