Something that is largely missing from this year’s presidential campaign that was a reasonably big deal in 2012 is the “religious liberty” issue — the demand that people of faith be insulated from compliance with non-discrimination laws that they cla ...

An atheist group’s lawsuit has halted plans to provide $65,000 in Kansas City taxpayer dollars for September’s National Baptist Convention in Kansas City. It comes at a time when public funding for religious entities is at the heart of another Missou ...

It’s already hard enough to get voters to the polls. Kansas made it even harder with its voter ID law, which asks residents registering to vote for proof of citizenship beyond what is required by federal law. Now, Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobac ...

Americans believe in the importance of a good day’s work. And so it’s understandable that the prospect of a universal basic income (UBI), in which the government would issue checks to cover the basic costs of living, rubs some people the wrong way. W ...

Citing that Democrats outnumber Republicans 12:1 in faculty positions at the University of North Carolina, Senate Majority leader Phil Berger suggests that Republican job candidates are discriminated against when they apply for university positions u ...

Americans United had a little fun about two months ago with the Religious Right’s claim that if marriage equality became the law of the land, pastors would be forced to preside at same-sex weddings. We produced a special website designed to keep cou ...

Mylan is one of the leading exploiters of the technique known as inversion, in which a U.S. company cuts its tax bill by acquiring a foreign firm and moving its tax domicile to the acquired company’s homeland.

With the percentage of U.S. adults who do not identify with a religious group growing, we asked these people to explain, in their own words, why they left.

Troy and Wendy Hadley nearly became homeless because they couldn’t come up with $35 in court fees.

No religion is the new religion. Parents with secular ideas do not force children to follow any specific religion and let them find their own way in life.

“No one asks to be raped.”

Abuse is progressive. This is how it gets from point A to point B.

Christian apologists point to a universe that is understandable by physics, mathematics, and other disciplines as evidence of God. That kind of order shows the hand of God! But let’s first ask ourselves how understandable the universe actually is.

The recent unrest in Milwaukee spotlights the deindustrialization and hyper-segregation that has devastated the city’s communities of color.

Twenty years after Clinton signed the controversial welfare reform bill, its legacy endures.

Rep. Pete Olson just wants to make sure everything’s “uniform.”

U.S. Senator Marco Rubio and Republican nominee Donald Trump are set to attend events in Orlando for conservative pastors, put on by some of the country’s most radical anti-gay groups. The gathering comes two months after the Pulse nightclub shooting ...

The Seattle minimum wage increase is working out fine so far, but that's not what you'd get from much of the reporting on it.

A new policy platform from a coalition of activists signals a new stage in the protest movement.

Some weapons grade cuteness for your Friday.