When you believe in things That you don't understand, Then you suffer, Superstition ain’t the way —Stevie Wonder, “Superstition” Hey, it’s Friday the 13th, which, according to Western superstition, is unlucky. Whenever the thirteenth day... Read More

Today we introduce a new TheHumanist.com column, “What Would a Humanist Do?” Fans of Joan Reisman-Brill’s “Humanist Dilemma,” fear not: this isn’t a replacement of our popular long-running advice column but a new format that... Read More

Manipulating its executive powers of rule making and rule enforcement, the Trump administration is carving away our rights on issues from healthcare to immigration. From the new domestic gag rule (that caused Planned Parenthood to... Read More

Realm of Rigid Bubbles: I happen to travel in various circles of people. Within each circle, most people seem to agree on many basic views, about which they seem absolutely confident. But from one circle... Read More

Last month, on July 1, coal mining industry titan Blackjewel collapsed into bankruptcy. On July 29, about twenty miners who had been previously employed by Blackjewel took up residence on the train tracks in Cumberland,... Read More

On the bustling streets of Kensington in London last week, one of the Black women I asked to comment on the recent election of Boris Johnson (who has been branded as Donald Trump’s British mini-me)... Read More

In the new trend of undemocratically electing heads of state, the United States and the United Kingdom seem to be on the vanguard of how far comparable governments can go. It would be a lie... Read More