Celebrating seventy-five years since the founding of organized humanism in the United States, the American Humanist Association announced the recipients of the 2016 Humanist... Read More

Last week Senior Editor Maggie Ardiente wrote about the increasing number of Americans who call themselves “spiritual” but consider themselves religiously unaffiliated. What does... 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

You know you love them: Jesus and Mo, The Atheist Pig, and Raging Pencils!              

I drink a fair amount of wine, much of which I purchase at my local convenience store. Suppose I show up there one day... Read More

This past Tuesday, Silicon Valley resident, journalist, and author of Age of Optimists: A Quantitative Glimpse of How Silicon Valley Will Transform Political Power... Read More

This Monday’s Google Doodle recognized one of the great civil rights advocates and freethought intellectuals of American history: Frederick Douglass. The American Humanist Association... Read More

With the first electoral event of the 2016 presidential race behind us (with Ted Cruz winning for the Republicans and Democrats Bernie Sanders and Hillary... Read More

I had the honor of attending and participating as a speaker at the Secular Social Justice Conference held at Rice University in Houston, Texas,... Read More

This piece is partially inspired by A Black History Month Challenge, something I hope everyone reading this will participate in. The Black community isn’t... Read More