OnlySky β a digital magazine for America's secular and nonreligious, exploring life, culture, and the future through science, wonder, and human curiosity.
Should we want the best for MAGA voters?
What are our moral obligations toward people who despise us?
Sex shamans: A rose toy by any other name
How sex can be part of a mindful strategy of personal healing and growth.
Will the Democrats squander the 2025 progressive surge?
Can a mainstream party learn from success, or will it fight the will of its own voters?
The era of Mamdani
This isn't how politics normally goes in America.
Sex shamans: The revolving bedroom door
We can view the endings of romantic attachments as a completed project rather than a failure.
The fossil fuel era is ending in flames
Oil and gas infrastructure can't be protected from a determined enemy, which is all the more reason to shift away from it.
Depathologizing difference: Age-gap relationships
Age-gap relationships can be healthy when they exist without abuse or coercive control.
Disconnected while connected: The paradox of modern life
Rather than broadening our horizons, technology is encouraging us to retreat into our own echo chambers.
Depathologizing difference: STI stigma
We should reject the just-world fallacy and stop stigmatizing diseases that are easily treatable.
The lure of the transcendent
We need a secular framework for human experiences of awe and deep meaning.