On the evening of Saturday, October 20, dozens of people, mainly women, gathered in the back room of an occult bookstore in Brooklyn. Reporters... Read More

These are truly scary times that have nothing to do with Halloween. The anti-Semitic attack at the Tree of Life synagogue four days ago... Read More

Months before Robert Bowers gunned down eleven Jewish congregants at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, he posted anti-Semitic, hate-filled vitriol on... Read More

Seven years ago—on July 22, 2011—Anders Behring Brevik ignited a car bomb in front of a government building in Oslo, Norway. He then traveled... Read More

Experiencing an ethical dilemma? Need advice from a humanist perspective? Send your questions to The Humanist Dilemma at dilemma@thehumanist.com (subject line: Humanist Dilemma). All... Read More

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Since the founding of the United Nations, the role of the United States has been to bolster its sovereignty by diplomatically rejecting the nativist... Read More

Embarrassing admission: the Luddite wing of my consciousness was shocked and dismayed when I first noticed that self-driving cars were becoming a “thing.” For... Read More

President Trump is threatening to cut foreign aid to Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras (which he still doesn't seem to understand he doesn't quite... Read More

Jennifer Ouellette describes herself as a “recovering” English major who stumbled into science writing by accident and has been “exploring her inner geek ever... Read More