Democracy Spring Blooms in DC
Hundreds of passionate Americans rallied at the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia on April 2 and then walked for ten days—about 140 miles—to the US... Read More
What do the Holy Bible, Fifty Shades of Grey, and Captain Underpants have in Common?
It looks like the Bible won’t become the official book of Tennessee, after Gov. Bill Haslam vetoed a bill last Thursday that would have made... Read More
Carnival or Campaign? Locating Robin Hood and the Carnivalesque in the U.S. Presidential Race
“Fundamental reform to expand and deepen our democracy, we know from America’s history, follows from one thing only: mass movements.” —Robert Weissman, Public Citizen... Read More
All Right Then, I’ll Go to Hell Mark Twain’s Unchained Years
FOR AMERICANS, Mark Twain is something akin to gravity, a massive and foundational force whose magnificence has worn off through familiarity. We all read... Read More
In All the White Spaces Adventures in Niche Dating
ONLINE DATING is challenging, to say the least. I don’t know any online dater who hasn’t experienced at least a couple of awkward encounters,... Read More
Why Science Is Not in Conflict with Religion
SCIENCE AND RELIGION have had a long, rich history of conflict, most famously with the case of Galileo, who was found guilty of heresy... Read More
2016 Humanism
THE RISING TIDE OF NONRELIGIOUS people in the United States is accompanied by an intense focus on the “New Atheism,” which, rightly or wrongly,... Read More
What Does the Boy Scouts-Unitarian Universalists Agreement Mean for Humanists?
I had mixed feelings when I learned that the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) had signed a memorandum of understanding with the Boy Scouts of... Read More
Whose Bodies? Black Lives Matter and the Reproductive Justice Imperative
Over the past several years toxic canards like “abortion is black genocide” and “the most dangerous place for a black child is the womb,”... Read More
What Can We Say about the 2016 Presidential Candidates?
The challenge for a magazine published by a nonprofit that enjoys tax-exempt status is to discuss the U.S. presidential election without directly supporting or... Read More
