While the U.S. Constitution guarantees Americans the right to own guns, there are extremists who take that right too far. Take the parents who allowed their nine-year-old daughter to fire an Uzi at the Bullets... Read More

Human trafficking—for sex, labor, and even organ selling—is among the most profitable businesses in the world, yet it is ignored or minimized by governments and mainstream society. Worse than governmental ignorance, perhaps, is the unwitting... Read More

This week’s poem is by Daniel Thomas Moran, TheHumanist.com poetry editor, retired dentist and Boston University Assistant Professor, former Poet Laureate of Suffolk County, New York and the author of seven collections of poetry. He... Read More

Can you write a clever caption for this photo? (This was taken at the 2014 World Humanist Congress in Oxford, England, earlier this month. Photo credit: British Humanist Association.)   Submit your entry in the... Read More

Did you try the August 1st puzzle, “Anarchy”? Find the answers below! Special thanks to our puzzle creator, Dan Mason. Dan creates puzzles for the Williamsport Guardian, a bimonthly newspaper promoting awareness, arts, culture and... Read More

View all episodes in the Cartoon History of Humanism series. A Monk of Nature: The Medieval Science of Albertus Magnus Albertus Magnus was one of those individuals seemingly born for the sole purpose of making... Read More

Despite impressive box office numbers, mixed reviews suggest not everyone’s crazy about Luc Besson’s new film Lucy. A Rotten Tomatoes audience score of 48 percent isn’t what you’d expect from a sci-fi movie about brain... Read More