Thinking Like a Scientist The Humanist Interview with Congressman Rush Holt

by Nikki Stern

Constituents of Rush Holt, the popular congressman representing central New Jersey, like to flaunt bumper stickers that declare: “My congressman IS a rocket scientist.”... Read More

Torture on Trial Legal and Humane Frameworks for Opposing Torture

by David Swanson

Cases come in by the thousands from all over the world. A man was beaten and whipped. A woman was beaten and raped. A boy was... Read More

Legalizing Sexual Harassment and Legislating Rape Republican Statehouses Declare War on Women

by Michael I. Niman

One easily predictable but generally unexpected result of the 2010 Republican sweep of statehouses around the country has been a plethora of angry man-boy... Read More

Death and the Skeptic

by Hiram Crespo

"The world began when I was born and the world is mine to win." —Badger Clark As much as the anthropocentric arrogance and subjectivity... Read More