Up to 15 million people in the world are stateless, people with no country. The media doesn’t mention them, researchers do not focus on them, and until very recently the UN did not discuss them either. One of the largest stateless groups is the Rohingyas. They are Muslim in South Asia refused citizenship by the…

I was at a public concert and looked around at the people there. As a group they looked like a slice of average humanity, diverse in their appearance, short, tall, thin, heavy, old, young and of any hue from the fairest Caucasian to the deepest of brown. But how average were they, what was beneath…

Barry Kosmin, director of the Institute for the Study of Secularism in Society and Culture at Trinity College in Connecticut, has been focusing on non believers, meaning not only atheist and agnostics but also humanists as well as those who are indifferent to religion. His research (which he likens to Christopher Columbus on an expedition…