To look at them, you'd think the Moutons were a typical family from the Chicago suburbs—a couple with two young kids and a minivan. But this is a family with the mission to promote humanism... Read More

A rose by any other name would smell as sweet. But is ISIS, ISIL, IS, SIC, or Da’ish as Islamic? At the February 18 White House Summit on Countering Violent Extremism, President Barack Obama cut... Read More

When the list of finalists for the Mars One mission was released on February 16, I was relieved to see that my boyfriend wasn’t on it. From an initial pool of 202,586 applicants, Mars One,... Read More

Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Michael Shermer, and others take note: Baba Brinkman sells atheism with a smile and elicits more than a few belly laughs in his brilliant new one-man show, The Rap Guide to... Read More

As atheists, humanists, agnostics, and freethinkers, we have the distinct luxury of lacking an extremist base. As a community (albeit a fractured one) without an established dogma, there is nothing that commands nontheists to commit... Read More

Charles Darwin, in the last paragraph of the introductory chapter to his magnum opus On the Origin of Species, wrote: No one ought to feel surprise at much remaining as yet unexplained in regard to... Read More

The perception in America today is that the political atmosphere is so hostile towards the secular and non-religious community that simply coming out as an atheist while in office, or while running for office, would... Read More