Many of us humanists deeply question the morality of war. We do so because of the high value we perceive in each human life and because of the vast and needless suffering, death, and destruction... Read More

To look at them, you'd think the Moutons were a typical family from the Chicago suburbs—a couple with two young kids and a minivan. But this is a family with the mission to promote humanism... Read More

A controversy has arisen surrounding the German republication of Mein Kampf, Adolf Hitler’s infamous memoir/Nazi manifesto. Although copies of this historical literary work (in English My Struggle) aren’t totally impossible to find in Germany and... Read More

A rose by any other name would smell as sweet. But is ISIS, ISIL, IS, SIC, or Da’ish as Islamic? At the February 18 White House Summit on Countering Violent Extremism, President Barack Obama cut... Read More

Many humanists are already aware of the growing percentage of the US population that identifies as nonreligious. According to a study by the Pew Research Center, about 20 percent of people identify with no religion,... Read More

“If American democracy will not insure equality of opportunity, freedom and justice to its citizens, black and white, it is a hollow mockery and belies the principles for which it is supposed to stand.” —A.... Read More

When the list of finalists for the Mars One mission was released on February 16, I was relieved to see that my boyfriend wasn’t on it. From an initial pool of 202,586 applicants, Mars One,... Read More