Pride is almost over, but before it ends, it is an excellent time to remember that the LGBTQ+ community is an essential part of the secular community.According to the 2022 Cooperative Election Study, 11 percent of adults identify as gay, lesbian, bis...
The current direction of the GOP has been in my mind this week for reasons that have nothing to do with its exponentially growing list of potential 2024 standard-bearers. Instead, a few articles I read this week, alongside an interview I di...
A recent piece in Axios shows what many of us have known for a long time: Christians are overrepresented in Congress. For the most part, the extra Christians come at the expense of the nonreligious. Only 3.7% of the members of Congress have...
A recent piece in Axios shows what many of us have known for a long time: Christians are overrepresented in Congress. For the most part, the extra Christians come at the expense of the nonreligious. Only 3.7% of the members of Congress have...
Last week I addressed how polarization has impacted the Big Three religion cohorts in the Latinx population: Catholics, the nones, and evangélicos. Comparing the latest partisan identity data reported by Pew with the 2014 Pew...
Last Friday, team Puerto Rico lost to team Mexico in the World Baseball Classic. On Monday, Japan dramatically defeated Mexico in their last at-bat in the bottom of the ninth inning. Japan ultimately won the tournament, its t...
Last week I wrote about some things left unsaid about the recent Pew report showing how much the nonreligious Latinx population has grown in recent years. I did not write about some of the political data points mentioned in the report on pu...
Hello! I’m back from vacation and initially wanted to write about my trip. However, yesterday, the Pew Research Center released a report about Latinx religion identification. Hemant wrote about it in his newsletter with a guest appearance by you...
In the early 2010s, when I was still working at Trinity College’s Institute for the Study of Secularism in Society and Culture (ISSSC), the question of why the nones -then 15% of the adult population- weren’t better represented in politics was often...
Hello friends, I was traveling most of the week—apologies for the short and late entry. Instead of a longer essay or analysis, I’ll leave you with the latest episode of Beyond Atheism just released this week. From the episode summary:In thi...
