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

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

Imagine the oath when the United States’ first atheist president is inaugurated: I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of... Read More

How do we begin to understand the crisis in Europe? Perhaps we should start with understanding the climate problems and political persecution in Syria that led to the situation today. Perhaps we should remember Aylan... Read More

As soon as the US Supreme Court decided that denying gay people the right to marry constitutes a “deprivation of liberty” in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment, all the major Republican presidential candidates urged fierce... Read More

At this time last year, as students were returning to school after summer break, the American Humanist Association launched its Boycott the Pledge Campaign, encouraging students and adults to sit down during the Pledge of... Read More

In many states, including Maryland, law enforcement is prohibited from using racial profiling—targeting a person based on traits such as race, ethnicity, or sexual orientation—when making traffic stops, and racial profiling guidelines typically seem to... Read More