Last week, in a 5-4 vote, the US Supreme Court took the extraordinary and unprecedented step of putting a hold on the Environmental Protection... Read More

As the American Humanist Association’s legislative associate, I spend a lot of time working with other nontheistic organizations on Capitol Hill trying to ensure... Read More

On February 10, Wheaton College officials and Wheaton Professor Larycia Hawkins gave a press conference in which they announced they had mutually agreed to... Read More

Last December, a study by a research team at the University of Utah concluded that one of the most common species of Darwin’s finch,... Read More

This week’s poem is by Daniel Thomas Moran, TheHumanist.com poetry editor, retired dentist and Boston University Assistant Professor, former Poet Laureate of Suffolk County,... Read More

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

When I highlighted some great scientific accomplishments in genetics and macroevolution last year in celebration of Darwin Day, I quoted University of California biologist... Read More

This is an article published under the Center for Freethought Equality, the 501c4 lobbying organization of the American Humanist Association. I know that Iowa... Read More

View all episodes in the Cartoon History of Humanism series. Bringing Religion to Ground: Karl Marx It is 1851 and Karl Marx, the man... Read More

Common decency took another sucker punch from the God industry last month in a case decided in California. Late in her pregnancy, Rebecca Chamorro... Read More