COLUMN By RICHARD WADE For Humanist Network NewsAugust 19, 2009 You may send your questions for Richard to AskRichard@ca.rr.com. All questions will eventually be... Read More

For Humanist.Network.News August 19, 2009 HNN Readers React Send a Letter to HNN, Call HNN To send a letter to HNN, look for "Letter... Read More

The following is adapted from Neil deGrasse Tyson’s June 5, 2009, speech in acceptance of the American Humanist Association’s Isaac Asimov Science Award, presented... Read More

EDITOR'S NOTE: Ahead of this Sunday's premiere of Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, TheHumanist.com revisits our 2009 interview with Neil DeGrasse Tyson, winner of that year's... Read More

From 1879 to 1883 Chile, Bolivia, and Peru fought the War of the Pacific. By the end of the hostilities (Chile won) 55,000 people... Read More

Is it ever intellectually honest for an atheist to pray? Indeed, can an atheist claim, without manifest absurdity, to have a relationship with God?... Read More

The struggle between creationists and upholders of science is largely a war of words. Yet it is in many ways an unequal contest. Creationists... Read More

Earth’s human inhabitants, now at 6.8 billion, are predicted to number 9.1 billion by 2050—a figure that stands to tip the global-warming scale past... Read More

The recent burqa controversy, plaguing France has produced yet another headache for liberals, humanists, and lovers of democracy who feel themselves trapped between conflicting... Read More

William Shakespeare never wrote, “Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive” and yet so many people are perfectly... Read More