With the death of Neil Armstrong on August 25 the media was flooded with commentary and pronouncement about the first manned moon landing of... Read More

This past summer, after the owner of the fast-food franchise Chick-fil-A made headlines with a number of statements opposing marriage equality, about two dozen... Read More

Writer, activist, and feminist Gloria Steinem was named the 2012 Humanist of the Year by the American Humanist Association and was presented with the... Read More

Ira Flatow, the long-time host of NPR’s Science Friday, wrote his first science story in 1970 while an engineering student at SUNY Buffalo and... Read More

Debra Sweet is a career activist and organizer who first got involved in political activism as a teenager living in Madison, Wisconsin, in the... Read More

Cenk Uygur was born in Turkey and immigrated to the United States with his family when he was eight years old, later becoming a... Read More

Tomorrow, October 11th, marks National Coming Out Day. Though observed primarily for the LGBT community, National Coming Out Day is something that we as... Read More

It’s a great time to be a secular American. The Pew Forum recently released a report on the rapidly increasing number of American “nones”—people... Read More

By Sadie Rothman There’s been quite a bit of upset in the news lately, and some of it for good reason. When people feel... Read More

As most nonreligious Americans know, this current Congress isn’t the biggest supporter of church-state separation or atheists in general. Bills favoring religious institutions or... Read More