Black Skeptics Los Angeles Announces its 2026 First in the Family Humanist Forward Freethought Awardees!
In the midst of the Trump administration’s backlash against and attacks on racial, social and educational justice in K-12 and higher education, support for... Read More
The Three Currencies of Life: A Humanist Perspective
We usually treat currency as synonymous with money – the system of exchange that governs much of our daily life. Yet human lives are... Read More
Is Ethics Ethical? What We Still Owe Each Other After the Right Answer
In a hospital with one ventilator and two patients who need it, a triage rule can do almost everything we normally ask it to... Read More
AI Should Deepen Human Judgment Instead of Erasing Apprenticeship
Every profession contains humble work that looks expendable from above. The junior analyst gathers figures. The new lawyer organizes documents. The beginning marketer drafts... Read More
Us, We, Them: The Plight and Responsibility of Being a Modern Human
When I studied anthropology in the 1980s as an undergraduate, the evidence for our species living with other Homo human populations began and ended... Read More
When Belief Overrides Humanity: The Thin Line Between Faith and Extremism
Ten years ago, I watched a video of a hostage execution during the Iraq War. What stayed with me wasn't the violence — it... Read More
Moral Courage in Schools and Society: Four Thoughts Holding Us Back
Two students are walking down the hallway, in opposite directions, and an administrator looks on. The students are of different races, different genders, and... Read More
When Depression Changes the Future, Who Gets to Decide?
It's 2:17 a.m. A patient sits in an emergency observation room after telling a physician that they intend to end their life when they... Read More
I Left Islam, but I Couldn’t Leave
Atheism. It is a simple word for many people around the world; it simply means not believing in any creator or deity. That's it.... Read More
The Comics Section: Ride the Wave
The latest from Cagle Cartoons. RJ Matson, Portland, ME
