Any organization that advocates for the separation of church and state can expect to get an earful from the public. When attorneys for groups... Read More

Listen up, fellow white people. If we care about racism—and if we’re humanists, we bloody well better—there’s something we need to do. It’s enormously... Read More

We’ve all been told we’re supposed to “be good.” But why? So your god can reward you? Such religious reasons have no evidentiary basis... Read More

“Another online scam—too good to be true,” I thought when I read the apartment listing on Craigslist. But I decided to call anyway. The... Read More

There are few scientists alive today who have had as far-reaching an impact as Edward O. Wilson. With a career spanning more than half... Read More

In 1952, with the election of Dwight D. Eisenhower as president, a small, chariot-driving clan of Christian evangelicals stormed the national stage, bent on... Read More

Hector A. Garcia’s new book, Alpha God: The Psychology of Religious Violence and Oppression, successfully draws parallels between violence in human evolution and in... Read More

The New York Times reviewed Stephen Crane: A Life of Fire by immediately reminding readers that Crane, “America’s first rock-star writer,” appears on the... Read More

One day I’ll wake up and the liberal love fest with Pope Francis will be over—but until that day comes, I want to make... Read More

As someone who has long called for humanists and mainstream religionists to work together, I naturally welcome Pope Francis’s call for action on climate... Read More