Last week, Mother Jones reported that 5,433 people living in the world’s seventh largest economy have no running water—nothing coming out of their kitchen... Read More

Last week, ten presidential hopefuls from the Republican Party gathered together for an event that was more like reality TV than a serious political... Read More

For all the talk about reason and science, humanism is really about a passionate love affair. It is a love affair with life, not... Read More

Every four years, the world pauses to watch one of the most entertaining events broadcast on television. The contrived drama, the heated rivalries, and... Read More

Brand-new comics from Jesus and Mo, The Atheist Pig, and Raging Pencils (formerly Far Left Side)!              

As a follow up to 2012’s bestselling Proof of Heaven, Dr. Eben Alexander—the neurosurgeon who claims to have visited heaven while comatose—treats us to... Read More

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

He’s a real estate billionaire, the owner of the Miss USA pageant, and a denier of Barack Obama’s US citizenship. And now he wants... Read More

On August 6, 1945, an atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, by the United States from a solitary aircraft; one of the members... Read More

Al Gore, who won the popular vote for president in 2000 and who many believe would have taken office but for Supreme Court interference,... Read More