“I’ve had men throw dollar bills at me in a professional office (by an employee who works at that company, during work hours). I’ve had an engineer on salary at a bootcamp message me to explicitly ‘be... Read More

Can you remember a time when you looked at the stars and felt so small that it made you feel like a better person? New research published by the American Psychological Association suggests that experiencing... Read More

For all the talk about reason and science, humanism is really about a passionate love affair. It is a love affair with life, not a mythical hereafter. Humanism is a love affair with a progressive... Read More

He’s a real estate billionaire, the owner of the Miss USA pageant, and a denier of Barack Obama’s US citizenship. And now he wants to be President of the United States. I’m referring, of course,... Read More

On August 6, 1945, an atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, by the United States from a solitary aircraft; one of the members of the crew was someone I didn’t know at the time... Read More

Terrorism, often associated with violent political attacks against civilians, is an emotionally charged term, used more frequently now after 9/11. The FBI defines terrorism as “violent acts or acts dangerous to human life that violate... Read More

It’s 1 AM in the morning, and I’m watching some silly TV show as I try to fall asleep so that I won’t be too exhausted at work. All of a sudden, my heart sinks... Read More