“It’s just been really, really painful…Sometimes the pain is so bad that I can’t get out of bed, and I can’t go to the bathroom. When I cough, it feels like my organs being shredded... Read More

“God damn it white people,” commenter sowhatiswhat2 railed on the blog Fortress America last Tuesday. “Get over the fact that people of color are just as human as you are and have as much of... Read More

“I think you’re just wasting your time out there,” the customer in line said to me yesterday as I waited  for coffee before heading to the Secular Coalition for America’s “Knit A Brick” march at... Read More

Today the American Humanist Association launched a national campaign to encourage people to sit out the Pledge of Allegiance until the phrase “under God” is removed from it. The campaign includes YouTube video ads, as... Read More

With politicians bending over backward to appeal to the religious right and no open atheists in Congress, humanists in the U.S. can understandably feel left out of the political process. But our feelings of marginalization... Read More

I have a dear friend whose mother was diagnosed with Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) about a year ago. It’s a tragic disease, and one that has existed for a long time in relative obscurity compared... Read More

A new study by The Seidewitz Group, commissioned by the American Humanist Association with support from the Stiefel Freethought Foundation, reports that 34 percent of Americans support removing the phrase “under God” from the Pledge... Read More