British writer and activist Maajid Nawaz is suing the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) for defamation. Last October, the SPLC published a report entitled, “A Journalist’s Manual: Field Guide to Anti-Muslim Extremists.” The report contained... Read More

Today is Nebraska State Senator Ernie Chambers 80th birthday! To honor this amazing human being and AHA Lifetime Achievement Award recipient, we bring you a slightly updated version of a profile that appeared in the... Read More

On June 25, a Sunday, the well-known DC bookstore and coffeehouse Politics and Prose hosted a talk with David Goodrich. A former National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration climate scientist and past director of the Global... Read More

The religious right and conservative Republicans have never shied away from attempting to pass bogus, religiously influenced legislation. It has been a constant battle for secularists, and frankly, it’s one of the reasons the American... Read More

I am a proud gay humanist. I came out of the closet seven years ago, after ten years of struggle with my sexuality, ten years in the closet. One of the first things I did... Read More

Last week a Facebook video went viral and brought fresh attention to the debate over the role of religion in homeschooling. The video, posted by user NateTalksToYou, is a mashup of the 2006 documentary Jesus... Read More

On June 12 the National Council for the Social Studies became the first national education organization in the United States to put into its curriculum framework a set of guidelines for teaching about religion. This... Read More