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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.
The single day of Carl Sagan
The embers of a great scientist continue to kindle light down here on Earth.
A factory reset for the immune system
Genetic therapy promises a cure for autoimmune disease.
Human authorship in an AI world
How can readers tell the difference between genuine human creativity and AI slop?
Disabled people live in the future
Technology that merely represents convenience to some can be lifesaving to others.
Rucho is the real threat to American democracy
The courts have blessed anti-democratic gerrymandering.