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A new report details the egregious civil rights violations and damage to communities from the NYPD’s surveillance of Muslim communities post-9/11.

“We increasingly look prejudiced, and not a little stupid, on this issue,” GOP insider admits.

“I’d feel most comfortable assigning myself to the category of people who prefer not to be assigned to categories,” a fifty-something, Silicon Valley entrepreneur I’ll call Nathan* joked when I asked him how he’d describe his religious identification or affiliation. “But I suppose ‘none’ will do.”

Almost half of the world’s countries have laws or policies that penalize blasphemy, apostasy, contempt of religion, or religious “hate speech.”

A response to a recent RD feature.

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You can call them “unaffiliated,” as in a recent Pew poll, or “nones,” or even just “not very religious.” A brand new poll by PRRI/Brookings divides this group further (and somewhat counterintuitively) into “unattached,” “atheists/agnostics,” and “seculars.”

But there’s an opportunity for secular politics.

Media excitement continues over the latest Pew poll showing continued growth in the religiously affiliated. But do such data really tell us what we need to know about the Four F’s of Contemporary American Spirituality: Family, Fido, Friends, and Food?

Most millennials voting for Romney are motivated by dislike of Obama.