I watch her in that crosswalk every day, Her stride, the way she swings her hair. Her strong eyes track up this way And... Read More

A woman walks into a café, orders a coffee and, before she pays, crosses off “In God We Trust” on her $20 bill. The... Read More

At $7 billion, the discovery was a bargain. The money went mostly to building and staffing the world’s most complex machine, buried deep beneath... Read More

This is a tough world where our heroic selves emerge from our wounded selves in order to help us survive. Still, studies of what... Read More

Polls indicate that some interesting shifts are under way in religious life in the United States. The number of people identifying their religion as... Read More

The following article is adapted from a speech given at the Women in Secularism Conference sponsored by the Center for Inquiry and held in... Read More

In the last issue of HNN we mourned the death of the AHA’s honorary president, the prolific writer Gore Vidal, who took the position... Read More

Listen to Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry’s speech after receiving the 1991 Humanist Arts Award from the American Humanist Association.

Women of color represent 36.3 percent of the U.S. population of women—about 18 percent of the total population—and the demographic is growing. Over several... Read More

By Brian Magee A small but increasing amount of attention over the past decade is being paid to the increased use of private prisons... Read More