This article is part of Carl Coon's ongoing "A Short History of Evolution" series. Click here to read Part 1. Entropy and Evolution Let's... Read More

It’s easy to say “Christianity justified slavery and Jim Crow” and blame the church for the current racial situation, but what are atheists doing... Read More

This article originally appeared in the March/April 2014 issue of The Humanist. Few could argue that the Internet hasn’t revolutionized gay life. A generation... Read More

Before I start my so-called rant against traditional values, let me cast out a potential red herring others might like to introduce to the... Read More

This week’s poem comes just in time for Valentine's Day from contributing editor Daniel Thomas Moran. Moran is a retired dentist and Boston University... Read More

Every year, the independent E Street Cinema in Washington, DC, [that’s per magazine house style; yours may differ] features a showing of films nominated... Read More

In March the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments in two important cases that could establish new parameters for what religious liberty means. The... Read More

LAST SUMMER in this space I asked, “Isn’t getting people to care about what happens after they die—in a realistic, naturalistic sense—primarily a humanist... Read More

Few could argue that the Internet hasn’t revolutionized gay life. A generation came out on the web, and the freedom to launch a website... Read More

I’ve recently found myself in a bit of a verbal joust with a columnist in my local newspaper’s conservative-leaning op-ed pages. He, like so... Read More