Atheists Have an Anti-Muslim Bigotry Problem
On Monday, September 14, Ahmed Mohamed, a fourteen-year-old student at MacArthur High School in Irving, Texas, was arrested after school officials believed his homemade clock was a bomb. Although Irving Police Chief Larry Boyd knew... Read More
Some Nice Talk but Where’s the Action? Pope Francis’s Address to Congress
The national media have been buzzing for weeks about Pope Francis’s visit to the United States. Perhaps what has most vividly captured the public’s attention about his sojourn, aside from the World Meeting of Families... Read More
To Drone or Not to Drone
The Air Force Times recently ran an ad signed by forty-five veterans declaring that drone warfare missions violate international law and that drone pilots and support personnel are obligated to refuse to fly. They did not paint... Read More
My Introduction to UN “Interfaith” Diplomacy
[Editor’s note: The views discussed in this article belong to the author and do not represent any official position taken or agreed to by the American Humanist Association.] On Thursday, September 17, I had the... Read More
Catholic Hospitals and the Denial of Care
Jessica Mann lives in Genesee County, Michigan, is eight months pregnant with her third child, and suffers from a brain tumor. Her doctors recommended she undergo tubal ligation surgery during a caesarean section scheduled for... Read More
Nothing to Like: Why a Facebook “Dislike” Button Is a Bad Idea
Naturally, the news went viral—Mark Zuckerberg, founder of the largest social networking site in the world, announced during a live Q&A on September 15 that Facebook was creating a “dislike” button in response to demand... Read More
#IStandwithAhmed
On Tuesday, September 15, Ahmed Mohamed, a fourteen-year-old child of Sudanese-Muslim descent brought a homemade alarm clock to school with the intent of impressing his engineering teacher. While he successfully demonstrated his technical prowess to... Read More