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Enter the Trimates, three female scientists who would study these apes and make science history.

Is the former Missouri professor an out-of-control activist? A poster child for academic freedom? Or something else?

In a time of protest and recrimination, balancing the goals of students and an institution can be perilous. The University of Missouri found that out when a student-life administrator turned up in a viral video.

The US Satanic Temple, with the Supreme Court’s OK, began teaching their spiritual views at after school clubs across the states just like Christian churches.

A new Texas ban limits abortions at a six-week period, when most do not even know they are pregnant. Tell the governor to stop this attack on reproductive rights.

The remarkable, costly life of a secular saint Mark Schierbecker, Creative Commons What I knew about Jane Goodall: she was the woman who lived in Africa with apes. I could conjure an image of her from pictures I’d seen—slender, attentive, crouched with binoculars, hair pulled into a ponytail. I didn’t remember, if I’d ever known, the seismic shift in primate biology occasioned by her discovery that chimpanzees use tools. Once, in a tense family Trivial Pursuit b...