Over the past fifteen years United Nations tribunals have addressed genocide issues associated with conflicts in Bosnia, Rwanda, and Darfur. The most recent development in this connection is the arrest on July 18, 2008, of... Read More

Judge John E. Jones III of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania is one of the foremost defenders of evolution in public schools, ruling the teaching of intelligent design unconstitutional in... Read More

Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species appeared in 1859 and revolutionized how the science and religion enterprises viewed human nature. Scientists proceeded to populate the many rooms, nooks, and crannies of Darwin’s edifice with... Read More

Threescore years ago, on December 10, 1948, fifty-three nations on the earth, scarred by a terrible war, brought forth something new in human history, a Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The echoes of the American... Read More

Published in the Humanist, November/December 2008 Bruce Green was excited and daunted by the task that lay before him. It was August 2003, and he had been named dean of a new law school that... Read More

Maryland State Senator Jamie Raskin, an attorney and professor of constitutional law who has earned national recognition as a civil rights and civil liberties advocate, was honored by the American Humanist Association on Friday, June... Read More

I was born eight months after my parents were married in 1931 and from there my life has been one accident after another. My identity was forged in part by my father, who both told... Read More