ACCORDING TO HISTORICAL ACCOUNTS and archeologists, cannabis has been used as medicine in China for over 5,000 years. Currently, thirty-three US states and the... Read More

WELCOME TO THE NEW ROARING TWENTIES. The “roar” heard at the dawn of these 2020s isn’t the boisterousness and glitz for which last century’s... Read More

On January 28, 2020, the testimony of Rafida Bonya Ahmed, a humanist activist and author, was presented before the United States House of Representatives... Read More

If Religious Preference Is a Violation of the Constitution, What Are Humanists Doing about It? “DOES IT VIOLATE the Religion Clauses or Equal Protection... Read More

FEBRUARY 2020 MARKS the fiftieth anniversary of the death of Bertrand Russell—someone many readers of this magazine will know already for the essay adaptation... Read More

In January the Chattanooga Times Free Press reported that a lawyer named David Fowler, representing the Family Action Council of Tennessee’s Constitutional Government Defense... Read More

On a brisk, blue-sky morning in the autumn of 2019, outside the New York State Supreme Court Building in Manhattan and across the street... Read More

In yet another sop to his white evangelical Christian base, President Donald Trump announced in January that his administration was issuing guidelines on religious... Read More

Fifty years ago, in 1970, the Missi­ssippi Supreme Court decided that the ban on the teaching of evolution in the state’s public schools was... Read More

Yuval Noah Harari is a thinker of big ideas. An Israeli historian, he wrote Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (2011), about how we... Read More