Transgender People Just Need to Pee
Last week, the South Dakota Senate passed a bill that would require students to only use bathrooms and locker rooms that correspond to their assigned sex rather than their binary gender identity. If signed into... Read More
Scalia’s Passing May Change Clean Power Plan’s Trajectory Once Again
Last week, in a 5-4 vote, the US Supreme Court took the extraordinary and unprecedented step of putting a hold on the Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Power Plan rules pending the outcome of litigation at... Read More
Year 2016 and Congress Still Not Serious About Science
Darwin Day, an observance held annually on February 12, Charles Darwin’s birthday, is fast approaching. Scientists and secularists alike are getting ready to celebrate. This observance is a great opportunity not only to honor the... Read More
SCOTUS Briefing for the Everyday Humanist Part 1: Birth Control under the Affordable Care Act
"Humanists … work to uphold the equal enjoyment of human rights and civil liberties in an open, secular society and maintain it is a civic duty to participate in the democratic process." –Humanist Manifesto III... Read More
Over-the-Counter Birth Control? Not Quite Yet…
Hormonal birth control options—like the pill, patch, and ring—are now available in Oregon without requiring a visit to the doctor. A new state bill allows women over the age of eighteen to obtain a year’s... Read More
Wrong for the Right Reasons and Right for the Wrong Reasons
On Friday, December 11, schools in Augusta County, Virginia, were closed over safety concerns. Though no credible threats had been made, the sheer volume and tone of parents’ complaints about a specific lesson plan on... Read More
Republican Debate: The Race to Repression
Be afraid. Be VERY afraid. This was the message of Tuesday’s Republican presidential debate, the fifth GOP debate this year. Coming off the heels of yet another mass shooting, this time in San Bernardino, California,... Read More