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Where do atheists get morals?

  • Melina Cohen

Nonreligious people don’t need a commandment to care or to tell us that others deserve dignity, compassion, and justice.

How we won in Colorado

  • Nick Fish

Colorado ended mandatory religious twelve-step programs for people on parole. No lawsuit, no law — just years of organizing.

God made Trump.

  • Melina Cohen

Trump and his supporters are free to think he was chosen by God. But the rest of us shouldn’t have to pay for this nonsense.

They came after my kid

  • Victoria Anderson

My family fled our home. I want to ensure other nonreligious families have protections ours didn’t.

This is personal

  • Melina Cohen

I know what it feels like to be the kid who doesn’t belong, and no young person should have to endure that.

A-OK with Armageddon

  • Melina Cohen

Doomsdayers don’t believe in any future, let alone one that belongs to all of us.

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