To many Americans, politics and conventions are boring. After all, who wants to sit through hours of the same platitude-heavy aspirational speeches we’ve heard for decades?

This week the Republican National Convention is taking place at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio, where yesterday Republican Party delegates nominated Donald Trump to be their candidate for president of the United States... Read More

My Short History of Evolution, published by the American Humanist Association’s Humanist Press last year, included discussion of a singularly important milestone in the long march of our species toward civilization as we know it.... Read More

Many Americans, at least those fortunate enough to have access to insurance, tend to view healthcare as a private matter between themselves and their doctors. Unfortunately, for an increasing number of women, healthcare is becoming... Read More

I often hear that humanity’s greatest characteristic is our ability to manipulate the environment in complicated ways. We can control fire, explore outer space, and converse with strangers across the globe. However, this ability is... Read More

As we closed out the Fourth of July holiday that I and many other activists deem a reminder of oppression, Alton Sterling took his final breath, his life wrongfully taken by crooked cops. We took... Read More

“I’m just trying to protect you.” These paternalistic words are repeatedly spoken to girls and women to engender trust in some vague idea of safety. Instead of protecting women, what follows often insidiously undermines women's... Read More