In a White House ceremony last Thursday, President Barack Obama honored the 2014 recipients of the National Medal of Arts and the National Humanities... Read More

The American Humanist Association recently sent a letter to officials at the Rabun County School District in Tiger, Georgia, on behalf of a local... Read More

On September 11, 2015, Megan Barry made history when she was elected Nashville’s first female mayor. Barry’s win is significant because it chips away... 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

This week’s poem is by Oriana Ivy. Author of three prize-winning chapbooks, Ivy is a widely published poet and translator. Her work has appeared... Read More

How do we begin to understand the crisis in Europe? Perhaps we should start with understanding the climate problems and political persecution in Syria... Read More

Despite my quite biased view, I show more respect for Pope Francis than a lot of liberal politicians and other talking heads who’ve fallen... Read More

View all episodes in the Cartoon History of Humanism series. The Reformation’s One Good Man: Erasmus of Rotterdam For half a millennium (in spite... Read More

As soon as the US Supreme Court decided that denying gay people the right to marry constitutes a “deprivation of liberty” in violation of... Read More

In the lead-up to Pope Francis’s long-awaited visit, not a day seems to go by without a new headline lauding the pontiff for his... Read More