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As of this morning, six explosive devices addressed to prominent critics of Donald Trump have been discovered , one of them (the one mailed ...

In C. S. Lewis's wonderful fantasy story The Magician's Nephew , he says, "The trouble about making yourself stupider than you ...

There's a smug, snarky meme going around social media lately.  It's got a photograph of President Obama and the caption, "Faced...

It's been kind of a grim week here at Skeptophilia .  The news over the last few days has been seriously depressing, what with the curre...

Humans are complex beasts. I know, it doesn't take a Ph.D. to figure that out.  (Fortunately for me, since I don't have one.)  But...

In troubled times, people forget that one of our core values is compassion. Despite what you might have heard, it's not unique to We...

There's a fundamental rule I follow: if I make a statement, and people I trust take exception to it, I try to listen. That happened to...

At what point are you allowed to say, "That may be your religion, but it's completely insane," without being accused of crossi...

I'm certain that all of you by now have heard about the deaths of twelve members of the staff of the French satirical magazine Charlie ...

I'm sure that most of you have heard of Boko Haram , the group of Nigerian extremist Muslim nutjobs who hate the secular west's cult...

Okay, I'm not going to beat around the bush, here.  Let's cut right to the chase. Alex Jones needs to shut the hell up. Before t...