On August 18, BlagHag blogger Jen McCreight wrote a post called, "How I Unwittingly Infiltrated the Boy’s Club & Why It’s Time for a... Read More

If there’s one word that defines the United States and what it’s all about, surely “freedom” is that word. Basically freedom means doing what... Read More

Most people have a mistake in life they would like forgiven: a petty theft, cheating on a lover, a lie that sprawled and webbed... Read More

There’s a tendency among humanist and atheist writers to make their books dense and detailed, recognizing that the usual audience wants all the facts... Read More

With the death of Neil Armstrong on August 25 the media was flooded with commentary and pronouncement about the first manned moon landing of... Read More

This past summer, after the owner of the fast-food franchise Chick-fil-A made headlines with a number of statements opposing marriage equality, about two dozen... Read More

Writer, activist, and feminist Gloria Steinem was named the 2012 Humanist of the Year by the American Humanist Association and was presented with the... Read More

Ira Flatow, the long-time host of NPR’s Science Friday, wrote his first science story in 1970 while an engineering student at SUNY Buffalo and... Read More

Debra Sweet is a career activist and organizer who first got involved in political activism as a teenager living in Madison, Wisconsin, in the... Read More

Cenk Uygur was born in Turkey and immigrated to the United States with his family when he was eight years old, later becoming a... Read More