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63 words that could silence the courts: How a tiny clause in Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” threatens American democracy
Authority without enforcement is theater dressed as law.
Will American religion one day mirror Norwegian godlessness?
We should be so lucky.
How the fight for evolution prepared us to fight for democracy
Thinking of democracy as a threatened species can help us preserve its future.
The happiest nations on Earth are strongly secular
This correlation has staying power.
Dissent and the power of two
The urge to conform is enormous. The presence of one other dissenter is often all it takes to resist.
When it’s hell on the surface, it’s time to go deep
The perspective is out there.
Severance and the divided American self
The analogy to our societal fracture cuts to the bone.
Suffering is optional
Those with the power to address the problem on a meaningful scale have other priorities.
Unchecked and unbalanced: The Constitution’s Achilles heel
An unforeseen partisan flaw threatens America's secular democracy.
The winds of an evolutionary mismatch
This is not the world we were meant for. That fact hurts some more than others.
The benefit of disconnecting
We have more information than ever. Is it helping?
There is no normal
These are not normal times. Then again, they never are.