Last Wednesday the Trump administration overturned Obama’s transgender student protection directive, which ordered schools to let transgender students use whatever bathrooms and locker rooms... Read More

Both left- and right-wing intellectuals agree that metaphysical convictions (our ideas about the fundamentals of reality) have social and political implications. The former's reasons for... Read More

This week NASA released news of an astounding discovery—a solar system that may harbor the right conditions for life as we know it. The... Read More

People who are attracted to humanism tend to have a strong interest in social and political activism. As it says in Humanist Manifesto III,... Read More

Experiencing an ethical dilemma? Need advice from a humanist perspective? Send your questions to The Humanist Dilemma at dilemma@thehumanist.com (subject line: Humanist Dilemma). All... Read More

Kayla Martel, age ten, wanted to play basketball, just as she’d been doing the past four years for her St. John’s school team in... Read More

View all episodes in the Cartoon History of Humanism series. Barbara Ehrenreich and Liberalism's Cyclical Self Sabotage Two years ago it might have seemed... Read More

I remember the isolation I endured when I began to scrutinize my religious faith and when curiosity inevitably led me to apostasy. I was... Read More

Milo Yiannopoulos, a key figure of the alt-right, white nationalist, anti-Semitic “news” site Breitbart, came under intense fire as a result of comments that... Read More

Since President Trump’s inauguration, many Americans have been vociferously speaking out against each and every regressive move he’s made. Protests are constant, and none... Read More