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Raising Children in a Theocracy: Anonymous Parent Shares Personal Story of Living in Rabun County, Georgia

14 September 2015

The American Humanist Association recently sent a letter to officials at the Rabun County School District in Tiger, Georgia, on behalf of a local parent objecting to the school district’s repeated promotion of Christianity, including... Read More

Nonbelievers behind Bars: Does the US Prison System Privilege Religious Inmates?

by Merrill Miller • 2 September 2015

When religious individuals accuse atheists of having no morals, one fact atheists frequently cite is the miniscule percentage of atheists in US prisons. However, getting accurate, reliable data on the religious identities of US federal... Read More

Finding Compassion in Nature: A New Study on Awe and Generosity

by Meredith Thompson • 13 August 2015

Can you remember a time when you looked at the stars and felt so small that it made you feel like a better person? New research published by the American Psychological Association suggests that experiencing... Read More

Humanism’s Passionate Love Affair with Life

by Michael Werner • 10 August 2015

For all the talk about reason and science, humanism is really about a passionate love affair. It is a love affair with life, not a mythical hereafter. Humanism is a love affair with a progressive... Read More

Hearts in the Kuiper Belt: NASA Concludes Ten-Year Journey to Pluto

by Jessica Xiao • 16 July 2015

On January 19, 2006, the New Horizons probe set sail from Earth at the record-breaking launch speed of 36,000 miles per hour. Its destination was Pluto—that previously unseen dwarf planet, sitting three billion miles away,... Read More

Tsipras and the Atheists: The Role of Secularism in Greece’s Financial Crisis

by Matt Cerami • 14 July 2015

The current state of Greece is not a good one—that much is not news. The financial crisis that’s plagued the country for years seemed to come to a head on July 5, 2015, when the... Read More

So Long, and Thanks for All the Mercury-Filled Fish: SCOTUS Strikes Down EPA Regulations

by Matt Cerami • 10 July 2015

If the recent victory for LGBT rights happened to trick you into believing that the US Supreme Court was shifting to a more enlightened, progressive place where compassionate and learned scholars ruled the land fairly—and... Read More

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