During the 72nd Annual American Humanist Association Conference May 30-June 2, 2013, Dan Savage will accept the Humanist of the Year award, the latest... Read More

Update Aug. 7 2013: The Bill as passed. Details from Metro Weekly can be found here. A copy of the bill can be seen... Read More

Most active freethinkers see humanism as secular; as Bill Maher hilariously put it, “Atheism is a religion like abstinence is a sex position.” So... Read More

Lessons in humility ought to be learned from disasters, especially those that involve the possibility or certainty of killing us. Given the history and... Read More

Thanks to everyone who entered our "Guess the Humanist of the Year" contest! One of the pictures tripped a few of you up, but... Read More

Since becoming a secular humanist, I have let go of Catholicism, the faith I was brought up in, but it wasn’t easy. For a... Read More

At an early age, black girls are branded as public menaces. They are suspended and expelled for “defiance” at greater rates than white boys... Read More

This past weekend I had the pleasure of attending the National Atheist Party’s second annual convention, which this year was held in beautiful San... Read More

The Supreme Court recently heard oral arguments in an important case challenging the constitutionality of a landmark piece of civil rights legislation, the Voting... Read More

I recently went to the wedding of a good friend of mine who happens to be a very devout Christian. She pulls most of... Read More