“This Is a Movement, Not a Moment!”: In It for the Long Haul in Protesting Trump
Last night, I marched with hundreds of other people in Washington, DC, from the Trump International Hotel to the White House. The people there... Read More
Rules Are for Schmucks: Religion, Land, and Anarchy
“Off the charts unbelievable”—so ran the headline about the acquittal of seven protesters who had occupied the Malheur Wildlife Refuge in Oregon earlier this... Read More
Massachusetts Legalizes Pot as Church’s Pricey Opposition Goes Up in Smoke
In an unprecedented move, the Catholic Archdiocese of Boston donated $850,000 to anti-marijuana legalization efforts last month. The move appears for naught since Massachusetts... Read More
Don’t Despair! Humanist Values Prevailed in Several State Ballot Initiatives
For months I’ve been anxious to see Loving, a new film featuring the true story of Mildred and Richard Loving, the plaintiffs in the... Read More
We’ll Miss You, Mike Honda
In May of this year I attended an event in Congress supporting the introduction of the Freedom of Religion Act of 2016. After lobbying... Read More
Ignorance Won. Can We Return to Reason?
The time is past due for progressive America to rethink its strategies. As the number of secular freethinkers has risen, they, along with people... Read More
Carl Sagan, YOLO, and the Art of Falling
I fell out of a plane the other day. I'm not going to lie—it was as terrifying as you could imagine (or know, if... Read More
The Humanist Hour #218: Vickie Stangl on Etta Semple: Kansas Freethinker and “Ideal” Woman
Programming note: The Humanist Hour will be off next week, November 16th! We'll be back on Wednesday, November 23rd. Download an audio file of... Read More
Humanism and Its Aspirations
As the world begins to process the US presidential election results, we'd like to revisit Humanist Manifesto III: Humanism and Its Aspirations. Let it... Read More
BREAKING NE–nevermind, just some cat GIFs
I don’t know about you, but spending the past six months feverishly refreshing FiveThirtyEight’s 2016 Presidential Election Forecast has fried brain cells that I... Read More
