Standing with Standing Rock: My Humanism Won’t Let Me Stay Silent

during the last week of October, I made a twenty-four-hour drive to join in the resistance efforts at the Standing Rock encampments near Cannon Ball, North Dakota. Hundreds of indigenous nations and non-Native accomplices... Read More
A Humanist Remembrance

Almost one year ago, on January 1, 2016, Robert James Allen died from a self-inflicted gunshot to the head. To this day, those of us who loved him haven't come to grips with his suicide. We... Read More
What We Know about the Nones’ Education from the Latest Pew Study

Many humanists are likely already familiar with the Pew Research Center’s reports on religiously unaffiliated individuals and atheists in the United States. In June, Pew released “Ten Facts about Atheists” that confirmed many hunches that... Read More
What’s Real about Fake News

Last week Breitbart, the leading mouthpiece of the “alt-right” (the term used by the media to describe a white-nationalist, anti-Semitic, fascist movement), began a war on the weather. By using a Weather Channel video created... Read More
Interview with Danielle Muscato, Humanist and Social Justice Activist

It isn't often that you're able to see something go viral and exclaim, "Hey, I know that person!" This time it happened to be Danielle Muscato, atheist civil rights activist. Ms. Muscato is the woman... Read More
Belonging in America: Helping Young Muslim “In-Betweeners”

Upon returning to campus following a brief Thanksgiving break, Ohio State University students were subjected to an attack, the fourteenth terrorist or terrorism-related attack this year in the United States. While the only fatality was... Read More
Here’s How Humanists Voted: Survey Results from the American Humanist Association

After the 2016 presidential election, the American Humanist Association asked its members and supporters to fill out a survey in which they anonymously reported who they voted for and how they identify, whether as an... Read More