As the American Humanist Association’s legislative associate and lobbyist, I spend my time presenting the humanist community’s opinion to Congress on a wide array of legislative issues. While many of the bills I deal with... Read More

Last week Senior Editor Maggie Ardiente wrote about the increasing number of Americans who call themselves “spiritual” but consider themselves religiously unaffiliated. What does this mean for the humanist movement? Is “spiritual” an appropriate word... Read More

This past Tuesday, Silicon Valley resident, journalist, and author of Age of Optimists: A Quantitative Glimpse of How Silicon Valley Will Transform Political Power and Everyday Life (available in full here) Greg Ferenstein sat down... Read More

With the first electoral event of the 2016 presidential race behind us (with Ted Cruz winning for the Republicans and Democrats Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton emerging in a “virtual tie”), voters may finally be starting... Read More

This piece is partially inspired by A Black History Month Challenge, something I hope everyone reading this will participate in. The Black community isn’t a monolith, but we generally appreciate the purpose of Black History... Read More

After days of playing outside, my mom curiously wondered why I was so quietly content with my Strawberry Shortcake pail. I would return to the house with my hidden collections stowed away like a prize.... Read More

Earlier this month, a team of scientists published a paper in Science providing supporting evidence that the Earth’s natural processes have been influenced by anthropogenic—human-made—factors, and thus, our planet is now in a geological epoch... Read More