OnlySky — a digital magazine for America's secular and nonreligious, exploring life, culture, and the future through science, wonder, and human curiosity.
America's 250th: Looking backward and forward
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?
A guided trip into psychedelics
Shelby Hartman and Madison Rachel Margolin map out the burgeoning psychedelic movement.
Wildfire skies: The future is hazy
From fire-hazed skies to flash floods, the planetary climate is changing all around us.
Do we actually want human-centered healthcare?
We should leave the human aspects of healthcare to humans, and let AI handle the rest.
Build a bigger table, not a higher wall
Documentarian Josh Fox wants us to welcome the tired, poor and huddled masses escaping the climate crisis.
Should freethought return to its deist roots?
The first American secularists were deists. Would the freethought movement benefit from emulating their example?
Fighting hustle culture: When rest feels like failure
Do new technologies save labor, or merely increase the unsustainable pressure to be productive all the time?
When will humans marry robots?
How long will it be until we form emotional and even marital bonds with synthetic beings?
Mamdani's socialist army topples the establishment
Democratic socialists are dragging the party kicking and screaming to the left.
On America's 250th anniversary, let's remember Roger Williams
A pioneer of religious liberty reminds us why secularism is the better way.
The morality play of chronic pain
Will AI help treat pain more effectively, or will it just learn to replicate human biases?
The mindfulness revolution
As healthcare shifts from treating illness to preventing it, mental wellbeing may become a defining health priority of the 2040s.
