Who Wants to Be a Rocket Scientist? Race, Gender, and the STEM Divide

On the Hill: AHA Submits Testimony on Solitary Confinement at Senate Hearing

On February 25, 2014, I attended a hearing held by the Senate Committee on the Judiciary’s Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights that was titled “Reassessing Solitary Confinement II: The Human Rights,... Read More
A Winning Formula for Local Humanism

True Detective. True Atheist?

The level of suspense in HBO’s new series True Detective starts high in the pilot episode and continues throughout. It’s a great crime drama that takes place in the Deep South where Christianity masks a... Read More
Why We Sued Bladensburg, MD Over a 40-Foot Cross

At the core of the First Amendment’s Establishment Clause is the principle that the government must not favor or prefer some religions over others, or religion over non-religion. No matter how small the preference may... Read More
The Humanevangelist: Have a Little Faith

In line with the apocryphal Chinese curse, we live in interesting times. Mutually assured destruction having allowed us to squeak through the Cold War, we now face climate catastrophe‑but with a tragic inversion of incentives.... Read More
The Religious Disneyfication of the Harlem Renaissance

To be African American in the 1920s was hard enough, to be a female author in the publishing industry somewhat more daunting, and to be one who held that religion perpetuated rather than combated the... Read More