The Secular Humanist in President Obama’s Life
What would it take for a fatherless black man, who grew up in a progressive, yet somewhat chaotic, lower middle-class family and spent most... Read More
One-Year Anniversary of Hobby Lobby: How RFRA Was Used and Abused
Today marks the one-year anniversary of the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby, Inc. The Court ruled that “closely held” for-profit... Read More
Who Radicalized Dylann Roof?
The manifesto of Dylann Roof, the man accused of killing nine black Bible study participants at a Charleston church on June 17, starts like... Read More
To Become More Than Little Oddities in the Lab: An Interview with NASA’s Lynn Rothschild
Dr. Lynn J. Rothschild is an evolutionary biologist, astrobiologist, and senior scientist at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California. Rothschild accepted the 2015 Isaac... Read More
Why We Need Courts to Identify “New” Rights
In the midst of the Supreme Court’s same-sex marriage ruling, a decision that squeaked by on a 5-4 vote, the main message from the... Read More
Justice Scalia’s Same-Sex Marriage Dissent is Hilariously Salty
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia is a bit like Vegemite: you either love the man or absolutely despise him. That being said, the infamous... Read More
AHA Applauds U.S. Supreme Court Decision for Marriage Equality
The American Humanist Association applauds the United States Supreme Court for upholding the rights of same-sex couples in its ruling on the landmark Obergefell... Read More
Film Review: Best of Enemies
If there is, by chance, an omnipotent being lurking around up there—somewhere out in the vast cosmic expanse—I imagine that, after creating the cosmos,... Read More
The Ethical Dilemma: I’m Still Listed as a Member of My Parents’ Church!
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
The Comics Section: Raging Pencils
TheHumanist.com is pleased to welcome a new addition to the Comics Section: Raging Pencils! Since 2008, cartoonist Mike Stanfill has been producing humorous comics... Read More