Last week on The Colbert Report, Rep. Jared Huffman, who has identified in the past as a Roman Catholic, alluded to Stephen Colbert that he may be an atheist or agnostic. Humanists have reason to... Read More

Surely most Americans by now know who Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and Christopher Hitchens are, the standard-bearers of atheism. But what about humanists and atheists from non-English speaking countries? We stand to enrich ourselves and... Read More

My partner and I were on vacation in Germany when news broke that Minnesota Vikings football player Adrian Peterson had been charged with child abuse for severely whipping his four-year-old son. We had by that... Read More

Last week, celebrity news site TMZ released the horrifying and graphic video of Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice punching his then fiancé (now wife) Janay Palmer in the face and knocking her to the... Read More

Last week the American Humanist Association launched its Don’t Say the Pledge campaign, encouraging Americans to sit out the Pledge of Allegiance when it’s said in schools and government meetings in order to draw attention... Read More

The shooting of Michael Brown by police officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri, on August 9 sparked enormous controversy on multiple levels. As evidenced by yesterday’s arrest of thirty-five people who were trying to block... Read More

There’s a wonderful scene in the beginning of the film Dawn of the Planet of the Apes in which a large group of apes ambushes a herd of elk. The result is enough food for... Read More