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    <title>Tax-Exempt and On the Ballot: The Quiet Machinery of Political Religion</title>
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    <description>The Johnson Amendment was supposed to keep 501(c)(3) houses of worship out of electoral politics. Decades of selective enforcement have left the law standing but hollow — and taxpayers, secular or not, are the ones underwriting the imbalance.</description>
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    <title>The Skeptic&#039;s Blind Spot: Why Rational Minds Fall for Irrational Traps</title>
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    <description>Free thought is not a credential one earns once; it is a discipline practiced daily, often imperfectly. This piece examines the mental traps that ensnare even the most ardent rationalists and offers concrete exercises for catching bias in the act.</description>
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    <description>The Establishment Clause is the quiet guardian of American religious liberty — yet recent Supreme Court rulings suggest the wall between church and state is being dismantled brick by brick. Here&#039;s what secular citizens need to know, and what they can do about it.</description>
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