With politicians bending over backward to appeal to the religious right and no open atheists in Congress, humanists in the U.S. can understandably feel... Read More

Click here to download an audio file of this podcast. In this episode, Bo Bennett interviews Maryland State Senator Jamie Raskin about being a... Read More

I have a dear friend whose mother was diagnosed with Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) about a year ago. It’s a tragic disease, and one... Read More

Recently, a U.S. citizen by the name of Douglas McArthur McCain was killed in Syria while fighting on behalf of the Islamic State of... Read More

A new study by The Seidewitz Group, commissioned by the American Humanist Association with support from the Stiefel Freethought Foundation, reports that 34 percent... Read More

Hail the triumphant return of your favorite comics: Jesus and Mo, Ape Not Monkey, and The Bad Chemicals!            ... 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

Thanks to everyone who submitted a caption for last week’s Photo Caption Contest! (Special thanks to the British Humanist Association for the photograph!)  ... Read More

On June 19, 2014, I coordinated the delivery of public testimony before the Mobile, Alabama, County Commission against a resolution to display a plaque... Read More