The weekly update on the Secular Policy InstituteÔÇÖs Fellows by┬áMadeline┬áSchussel Last week, SPI Fellow Elham Manea, Professor at the University of ZurichÔÇÖs Institute for Political Science, solidified publication plans for her next book, Women and Shari'ah Law: The Impact of [...]
Young voters are increasingly secular. To grow the youth vote, Republicans face a challenge in keeping religious conservatives on board while expanding their reach to atheists and the 'religiously unaffiliated.' Conservatives made history this year. For the first time, an [...]
SPI at CPAC - The Secular Policy Institute hosted at table at the annual Conservative PAC event at the National Harbor.  SPI CEO Edwina Rogers is photographed on the right discussing the importance of separation of religion and government with two Liberty University [...]
The weekly update on SPI coalition members by Johnny Monsarrat SPI coalition member Rationalist International is starting an eBook publication on a wide variety of secular topics. The first book is a secular analysis of the Hindu holy text Bhagavad [...]
By┬áGreg Neimeyer In an unprecedented finding, scientists have now observed a direct connection between the rising levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide and an increase in the amount of thermal radiation that strikes the EarthÔÇÖs surface. The finding confirms a keystone [...]
Bangladesh authorities say they have arrested the prime suspect in the murder of American blogger Avijit Roy who was hacked to death on a Dhaka street last week. The person, Farabi Shafiur Rahman, had called for Avijit Roy's death in [...]
A┬áBBC poll gauging sentiments in BritainÔÇÖs Muslim community following the Charlie Hebdo massacre found that more than a quarter harbor some sympathy for the motives behind the Paris attacks that left 17 people dead. A similar number, 24 percent, suggested [...]
The weekly update on the SPI Fellows by Madeline Schussel SPI Fellow Michael Shermer, Skeptic magazine founder and author of The Moral Arc, interviewed with Rabbi Geoffrey A. Mitelman of the Huffington Post earlier this week. The content of their discussion, as [...]
The weekly report on US and World public policy by Edwina Rogers Secular Policy Institute Holds White House Meeting On Wednesday, February 25, I met with staff of the Domestic Policy Council to introduce the institute as a resource and [...]
By Greg Neimeyer, Ph.D. While the U.S. economy may have improved, money continues to be a top cause of stress for Americans, according to the most recent annual survey, Stress in America: Paying With Our Health, released by the American [...]
