There's something that's been puzzling me. I've been thinking about cisgender people who get upset about transgender people. ("Cisgender," for those of you who... Read More

Some people avoid labels, but not me. I’m a Jew, a humanist, a secular humanist, an atheist, an agnostic, a skeptic, a freethinker, a... Read More

A SKILLED, dedicated criminal defense attorney sits alone with his client in a dreary jailhouse holding cell. The defendant is charged with a serious... Read More

2011 Humanist of the Year Rebecca Newberger Goldstein’s latest book, Plato at the Googleplex, is audacious in conception, intellectually stimulating, and an altogether fascinating... Read More

AS THESE WORDS are written, Oregon and Washington State are burning, much of California and Texas are withering without water, Boulder, Colorado, was recently... Read More

“Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless,... Read More

In his first inaugural address, President Barack Obama famously included nonbelievers among those who are dutiful citizens of this nation. But while one in... Read More

I ONCE READ somewhere that Hershey’s Kisses were named after the machine that forms them—the two mechanical parts that first deposit the chocolate come... Read More

IF YOU DON'T keep up on your fearmongering Christian commentary, you may have missed this item from the online WorldNetDaily: Secret experiments now underway... Read More

Last week, the New York Times’ policy and statistics blog, The Upshot, wrote an article about the hardest places to live in the United... Read More