Salary History Doesn’t Equal My Worth!
Let's say you take a job right out of college while you're deciding whether you can afford graduate school or not. The work is engaging, but the pay is low. Still, you figure it's worthwhile... Read More
Women’s Rights and Religious Liberty: What California and Illinois’s Laws against Crisis Pregnancy Centers Can Teach Humanists
Last week, two crisis pregnancy centers and a pro-life physician, represented by the conservative legal advocacy group Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), sued the state of Illinois after Governor Bruce Rauner (R) signed off on new... Read More
Shake Things Up by Sitting Out the Pledge of Allegiance
Public schools are supposed to teach kids to think critically, right? Students should be learning to apply rational analysis, assessing evidence, and reaching logical conclusions with the knowledge they’ve accumulated and the intellectual skills they’ve... Read More
Let’s Be Reasonable about the Morality of Voting
Every four years in American politics, the presidential election seems especially fraught with moral handwringing on both sides of the aisle. In 2012, some liberals worried that a win for Romney would lead to the... Read More
Selling Fear: How to Survive Doomsday Predictions
A couple of weeks ago Motherboard.com published “Confessions of a Former Apocalypse Survival Guide Writer,” by Christopher Moyer, a freelance writer who accepted ghostwriting gigs from a business that caters to the survivalist community. Although... Read More
Acting on Climate Change Is a Choice Many Have Already Made
Solar Impulse 2, a completely solar-powered aircraft, completed its journey around the world last Tuesday without power from a single drop of oil. The aircraft set multiple records, but more importantly, it demonstrated the possibility of clean-energy... Read More
Should Humanists Support the Rio Olympics?
I am not a sports fan, but I love the Olympic Games! The Olympics to me is like all the best inspirational sports stories rolled into a couple weeks of programs. I’m never rooting for... Read More
