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Rules Are for Schmucks: Time to Amend the Constitution
Some secular analysts of the Supreme Court’s landmark Trinity Lutheran decision, including here at TheHumanist.com, are taking a balanced, wait-and-see approach to its impact.... Read More
Biking for Climate Change
On June 25, a Sunday, the well-known DC bookstore and coffeehouse Politics and Prose hosted a talk with David Goodrich. A former National Oceanic... Read More
Meet the Intern: Spencer Grady-Pawl
Please welcome our new communications intern, Spencer Grady-Pawl! TheHumanist.com: What is your educational and work background? I just graduated from Davidson College, a private... Read More
The Future of Sex How technology, morality, and politics are reshaping human sexuality
STOP ME IF YOU'VE HEARD THIS: a Texas man is suing for the right to marry his Apple computer. Actually, stop me anyway. Chris... Read More
Tough Fluidity Complex considerations for trans youth
Snips and snails And puppy-dogs’ tails That’s what little boys are made of. Sugar and spice And all that’s nice That’s what little girls... Read More
Everything You Know about Sex Is Wrong Part 1: The Gender Binary
This article has been adapted from the talk I gave on June 10, 2017, at the 76th Annual Conference of the American Humanist Association... Read More
Belief in a Shared Future An interview with Abdul El-Sayed, Muslim-American candidate for Governor of Michigan
This interview has been edited for clarity and readability. In February Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, a Muslim-American, announced he would seek the Democratic nomination for... Read More
Reason in Bronze Clarence Darrow to reunite with William Jennings Bryan at Dayton courthouse
“Can't you understand? That if you take a law like evolution and you make it a crime to teach it in the public schools,... Read More
Terror’s Afterlife Do suicide bombers think their victims are headed to paradise as well?
“Against them make ready your strength to the utmost of your power, including steeds of war, to strike terror into (the hearts of) the... Read More