Today is International Blasphemy Day, a day when millions of atheists, humanists, agnostics, and nontheists are encouraged to openly criticize religious teachings that they disagree with and to protest the continued existence of blasphemy laws... Read More

Imagine that you have a serious medical disorder. If left untreated, the disease could kill you in a slow, agonizing manner. But there are drugs that can mitigate the disease and help you lead a... Read More

I wasn’t an English major, but it seems to me the phrase “In God We Trust” affirms only one thing: a collective trust in a deity. Implicit in that affirmation, of course, is an underlying... Read More

On Monday, September 14, Ahmed Mohamed, a fourteen-year-old student at MacArthur High School in Irving, Texas, was arrested after school officials believed his homemade clock was a bomb. Although Irving Police Chief Larry Boyd knew... Read More

The national media have been buzzing for weeks about Pope Francis’s visit to the United States. Perhaps what has most vividly captured the public’s attention about his sojourn, aside from the World Meeting of Families... Read More

The Air Force Times recently ran an ad signed by forty-five veterans declaring that drone warfare missions violate international law and that drone pilots and support personnel are obligated to refuse to fly. They did not paint... Read More

[Editor’s note: The views discussed in this article belong to the author and do not represent any official position taken or agreed to by the American Humanist Association.] On Thursday, September 17, I had the... Read More