Surely one of the biggest barriers keeping humanism from being a more prominent force in the United States is its nontheistic character. Two relevant... Read More

In this month's audio podcast Humanist Network News interviews author Philip Pullman about the religious protest of The Golden Compass, a new film based... Read More

In July 2007 a polling company called American Research Group conducted the first and only poll asking whether the American public wants to impeach... Read More

The Saffron Revolution in Burma (officially Myanmar) is underway, and information is flowing out of the country (and back in) at a pace unimaginable... Read More

On Saturday, June 9, 2007, the Feminist Caucus of the American Humanist Association presented Robin Morgan with the Humanist Heroine Award. The following is... Read More

*Adapted from an address given on April 22, 2007, as part of "The New Humanism" conference held at Harvard University. I want to begin... Read More

Joyce Carol Oates was presented with the 2007 Humanist of the Year award at the 66th Annual Conference of the American Humanist Association in... Read More

In this month's audio podcast we interview U.S. Representative Pete Stark, the highest elected official in the United States to openly acknowledge that he... Read More

In February 2007 famed British athlete and born-again Christian Jonathan Edwards resigned from Songs of Praise, BBC television's flagship religious program. The reason? According... Read More

The British Parliament is considering a bill this fall that, if passed, will allow scientists to produce chimeras, composite embryos that are part human... Read More