Rural, Religious, and Racist: Molding the Minds of Children in All the Wrong Ways

Earlier this week, the Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) went to bat for the children of Mississippi by demanding an investigation into the school-sanctioned prayer walks that are happening in DeSoto County, Mississippi. FFRF wants... Read More
Depictions, Perceptions, and Harm: An Interview with Media Critic Jean Kilbourne

Advertising and media images play an important and influential role in everyday life. American business continues to produce advertisements that violate, objectify, and sexualize women and girls, despite several academic studies showing the negative effects... Read More
Ugly Ties: The Trump Administration and Hate Groups

The Trump administration has had no problem speaking to, working with, and headhunting from organizations classified as hate groups by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). Here, I have compiled numerous instances of officials in... Read More
Leaving Their Religion: Readers Share Stories of Separation

Last week we reported on research that suggests it may be better to make a slow and subtle break from the religion of your parents rather than to go out with a bang and risk... Read More
You Keep Using That Word…

“Systemic and institutional bias and privilege are, in my opinion, the current greatest threats to human progress…the betterment of the people around me and my desire to see more clearly the bias and privilege that... Read More
What Are “Ag-Gag” Laws and Why Should Humanists Oppose Them?

A federal judge ruled in early July that Utah’s 2012 “ag-gag” law is unconstitutional. The law criminalized whistleblowing in slaughterhouses and factory farms by preventing citizens employed in a facility under false pretenses from recording... Read More
Between a Creationist’s Rocks and a Hard Place

A creationist just sued the US Department of the Interior and won. Andrew Snelling, is a geologist (awarded a PhD by the University of Sydney in 1982) and the director of research at Ken Ham’s... Read More