For some people, the term “human trafficking” brings up images from the Hollywood film Taken—Kim Mills, the fictional daughter of a retired CIA operative,... Read More

By the time you read this, the Supreme Court may have issued its same-sex marriage ruling, which may (or may not) be seen as... Read More

Though the technology remains years, decades, or centuries away—depending on who you ask—debates about the implementation and ethics of genetic engineering and the editing... Read More

The US Presidential Election season is upon us! Test how well you know some of the presidential candidates based on the occasionally smart and... Read More

Click to download an audio file of this podcast. In this episode, Bo Bennett speaks with American Humanist Association Executive Director Roy Speckhardt about... Read More

Where would we be without Wikipedia? While the online encyclopedia’s accuracy has sometimes been called into question, its mission of providing free and comprehensive... Read More

In a move sure to please their conservative base while infuriating many others, the GOP has introduced a slate of new anti-abortion measures. Not... Read More

IN 2005, one of today’s most revered American writers, David Foster Wallace (now deceased), delivered a commencement address to graduates of Kenyon College, titled... Read More

I'D LIKE TO THANK the American Humanist Association (Maggie Ardiente in particular) and Dr. Anthony B. Pinn for organizing the “Humanism and Race” panel... Read More

LAST YEAR I took my six-year-old daughter to a demonstration and die-in in Hollywood. Across the globe, protestors from every walk of life had... Read More