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
A Chaplain’s Perspective on Trump: When America is the Patient

It has been just over a week since the country elected Donald Trump to serve as its next president. Many Americans are happy to have a change in leadership, and to them it represents the... Read More
The Necessary Chore of Talking to Trump Supporters

In the wake of the 2016 election results, pundits and analysts trying to understand Trump voters continue to center the pain and desires of white America, because power doesn’t like to be threatened. The White... Read More
Post-Election, Humanist Activism Kicks into Overdrive

It’s been a week since Donald Trump’s harrowing victory. I’m in a mental space where my dismay and fury over this precarious predicament remains inflamed. I can’t say I’m truly surprised by Trump’s rout of... Read More