October is LGBT History Month. While we celebrate the many LGBTQ activists and allies who helped create a world where people like me can... 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

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

Most of the civilized world has laws banning gratuitous cruelty to animals. I suppose we humans can pat ourselves on the back for this... Read More

View all episodes in the Cartoon History of Humanism series. Cicero: Classical Skepticism on the Brink of Empire For seventeen hundred years, if you... Read More

Imagine that someone who brutally violated you or a loved one was never taken into custody. Now imagine that authorities have the evidence necessary... Read More

Today is International Blasphemy Day, a day when millions of atheists, humanists, agnostics, and nontheists are encouraged to openly criticize religious teachings that they... Read More

Last Tuesday, NBC affiliate KFOR reported that a pre-K teacher at Oakes Elementary School in Okemah, Oklahoma, forced four-year-old student Zayde Sands to write... Read More

Click to download an audio file of this podcast. In this episode, Chris Johnson, author of the book A Better Life and producer of... Read More

Last week the Dalai Lama made headlines by saying, “That female must be attractive, otherwise it is not much use.” Leaving aside whether he... Read More