The Comics Section: Looking to the Koran for Women’s Equality
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Rules Are for Schmucks: Hollow Victory in Parsonage Case
First the good news: the secular team just won a victory in court, declaring part of the “parsonage exemption” in the federal tax code... Read More
Weathering the Storm: AHA Shelters the Constitution amid International Vitriol
You've likely already read in this publication, if not elsewhere, about the American Humanist Association’s recent court victory in the Bladensburg cross case. A... Read More
Bedeviling the Anti-Choice Crusade
For antiabortion crusaders hell bent on chipping away at women’s right to choose, it really does seem like the devil is in the details.... Read More
Fostering Inclusive Humanism at FREEFLO
Last weekend I took part in FREEFLO, a freethought conference organized by the Florida Humanist Association (a chapter of the American Humanist Association). Hundreds... Read More
The Humanevangelist: To Censor Government Scientists Is to Undermine Democracy
The administration of George W. Bush was not known for gushing green. On the contrary, it brushed aside the views of mainstream climate scientists,... Read More
Religious Freedom and the “Jurisprudence of the Absurd”
As a presidential candidate, Donald Trump got a lot of traction with his promise to build a “big, beautiful” wall along the US-Mexico border... Read More
Building Humanism, Busting Myth and Privilege
ADAM SAVAGE is, broadly speaking, a maker of things, having built everything, as he’s characterized it, “from ancient Buddhas to futuristic weapons, from spaceships... Read More
Saving the Deep Blue Yonder
DR. SYLVIA A. EARLE is explorer in residence at the National Geographic Society, the founder of the Sylvia Earle Alliance (S.E.A.) / Mission Blue... Read More
Civil Rights and Our Nation’s Conscience
MARTIN R. CASTRO served as chairman of the United States Commission on Civil Rights (USCCR) from 2011 until December 2016 and was the first... Read More