Planned Parenthood has never been a stranger to haters and politicians on the conservative Christian right. Recently, one group made a bold yet unsurprising move in an effort to destroy Planned Parenthood’s image amongst it... Read More

On July 13, President Obama commuted the sentences of forty-six drug offenders, thirteen of which were serving life sentences for nonviolent crimes. These commutations, which began last year under the Clemency Project 2014, now come... Read More

The US Congress is many things to many people—an austere lawmaking institution, a dysfunctional madhouse, even a testing ground for the latest buzzword or political acronym. But for others, the House of Representatives and the... Read More

What would it take for a fatherless black man, who grew up in a progressive, yet somewhat chaotic, lower middle-class family and spent most of his childhood moving from place to place, to become the... Read More

Today marks the one-year anniversary of the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby, Inc. The Court ruled that “closely held” for-profit corporations—typically smaller family-owned corporations— could be exempt from certain federal laws... Read More

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia is a bit like Vegemite: you either love the man or absolutely despise him. That being said, the infamous justice should be applauded for his fantastic sense of humor, which... Read More

The American Humanist Association applauds the United States Supreme Court for upholding the rights of same-sex couples in its ruling on the landmark Obergefell v. Hodges case. “Our country is finally moving beyond outdated, religious... Read More