“The vehicle you will see has a very distinct front license plate.” Those were the words used by Charleston police Chief Gregory Mullen in his initial statement to the press on June 18, the morning... Read More

Last week, Women on Waves, a Dutch nonprofit that floats in international waters and provides abortion services to women in countries where legal constraints make abortions difficult or dangerous to obtain, announced the successful delivery... Read More

As the Fourth of July rapidly approaches, red, white, and blue banners (as well as hundreds of tacky Independence Day-themed advertisements for bars and nightclubs) seem to be everywhere in our nation’s capital. While patriotic... Read More

Last week, the United States Supreme Court gave humanists reason to celebrate when they finally threw off fundamentalist notions of marriage and declared marriage equality to be a constitutional right. This week, however, the Court... Read More

The manifesto of Dylann Roof, the man accused of killing nine black Bible study participants at a Charleston church on June 17, starts like this: “I was not raised in a racist home or environment.”... Read More

In the midst of the Supreme Court’s same-sex marriage ruling, a decision that squeaked by on a 5-4 vote, the main message from the dissenters was that the majority opinion is undemocratic. All four dissenting... Read More

Though the technology remains years, decades, or centuries away—depending on who you ask—debates about the implementation and ethics of genetic engineering and the editing of the human germline have been ongoing for years. The discussion... Read More