Thomas Jefferson was a private man who kept his personal life to himself, and yet today 18,000 of his letters exist in the public forum. In them, this farmer, architect, inventor, philosopher, politician, attorney, and... Read More

Thomas Jefferson was seventy-seven years old in 1820, when he sliced up Bibles in four languages and pasted the passages he liked onto both sides of forty-three sheets of paper, scrapbook-style, then sent those pages... Read More

The following interview was originally published on the Psychology Today blog, In Therapy. It was one installment in Ryan Howes’ series, “The Varieties of Religious Therapy,” featuring representatives from twelve belief systems discussing how they... Read More

When Maine governor Paul LePage ordered the removal of a mural depicting the state’s labor history from the Department of Labor headquarters because it was “not in keeping with the department’s pro-business goals,” he perfectly... Read More

Behind every question about how to get the United States back on track and improve the lives of average Americans (the so-called 99 percent) lies the necessity for economic conversion—that is, planning, designing, and implementing... Read More

Robyn (who asked that her last name not be used) is a forty-year-old resident of Marin County, California, who is active in Occupy Oakland and Occupy Marin. In early December she spoke to the Humanist... Read More

You say you want a revolution? Well, you know, we all want to change the world. …You say you got a real solution? Well, you know, we'd all love to see the plan. — Lennon/McCartney,... Read More