Is overpopulation the source of the world’s problems? Author Alan Weisman thinks so. HNN’s resident book reviewer David Chivers reviews Weisman’s latest book. In his new book Countdown: Our Last, Best Hope for a Future... Read More

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

Thanksgiving comics by Jesus and Mo, Ape Not Monkey, and The Bad Chemicals!      

Check out a classic comic by The Atheist Pig featuring a hilarious poem!

This week we’re pleased to publish a poem by Harold Saferstein, who parodies the poem “Little Orphan Annie” by James Whitcomb Riley. Harold received his M.D. from the University of Illinois and completed his dermatology... Read More

HNN’s very own poetry editor Daniel Thomas Moran was the featured poet for Boston’s Sunday Assembly, part of a 40 dates tour hosted by musician Pippa Evans and comedian Sanderson Jones. The Sunday Assembly is... Read More

AHA Communications Assistant Christian Hagen calls 12 Years a Slave, a new movie starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Fassbender, and Brad Pitt, a “challenging yet utterly essential” film. The implications and horrors of slavery have been... Read More