Gutting of the Voting Rights Act Derails American Democracy
Last Wednesday I attended a joint congressional briefing hosted by the ACLU and the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights titled “The State of Voting Rights in 2016.” This meeting was conducted just before... Read More
Ban Cisgender White Men From Public Bathrooms: A Modest Proposal
With all the troubles in the world—radical Islamic terrorism, climate change, Donald Trump—it’s good that the religious right is focused on the biggest existential threat to America: transgender women wanting to pee in women’s bathrooms.... Read More
What Made the 75th Annual AHA Conference So Important to Me
It’s now been one month since the American Humanist Association held its 75th Annual Conference in Chicago. Having reflected on the experience—this was my first AHA conference as both a speaker and attendee—allow me to... Read More
Enough Talk – A Call to Humanist Action
The American Humanist Association has been devoted to applying critical inquiry and social concern to everyday human activity and to our society for seventy-five years. In 1933, the first Humanist Manifesto was crafted to communicate... Read More
An Australian Rodent Has Gone Extinct Due to Climate Change. Are Humans Next?
If you Google Image search the Bramble Cay melomys, the results will show a rather unremarkable looking rat. With its large, black, shiny eyes and little pointed nose with long whiskers, it seems cute, though... Read More
What’s Honorable? A queer ex-Muslim on what plagues Afghan and Muslim communities in the diaspora
My father was a close friend to the uncle of the Orlando mass-murderer, Omar Mateen. My father has nothing but good things to say about his friend and his friend’s wife and his children. They... Read More
Humanly Possible: The Urgent Need to Increase Organ Donation Rates
Read Matthew Bulger's rebuttal arguing in favor of using animals for human organ donation here. There is no doubt—organ transplants save lives. In 2015 doctors in the US performed 30,000 transplants using organs from 14,500... Read More