Gloria Steinem and Other Women Activists Cross the North-South Korean Border for Peace
This past Sunday, on International Women’s Day for Peace and Disarmament, a group of thirty women activists from fifteen different countries, WomenCrossDMZ, crossed the demilitarized zone (DMZ) starting from Pyongyang, North Korea into South Korea... Read More
Why Humanists Should Support Increasing the Minimum Wage
From reading the news, one might think that money was raining from the skies over Los Angeles last week, after the City Council voted fourteen-to-one in favor of gradually raising the minimum wage from nine... Read More
Celebrating the Celebrants: An Interview with Humanist Officiants Jennifer and Tim Bailey
I had the pleasure of meeting Jennifer and Tim Bailey, co-owners of Celebrating Times of Change, at their exhibitor booth at the American Humanist Association’s Annual Conference in Denver, Colorado. Their exhibitor table was well... Read More
National Day of Reason, Secular Alternative to National Day of Prayer, Celebrated by Humanists and Church-State Advocates
Today humanists, atheists and other nontheists across the nation will be observing the National Day of Reason, an alternative to the National Day of Prayer. This is the first year that a congressional resolution (House... Read More
Humans, Not Monsters: The Boston Bombings, the Aurora Shootings, and the Death Penalty
Recently, two high-profile criminal trials have drawn the focus of the national media: the sentencing trial for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, also known as the “Boston Marathon bomber,” and the trial of James Holmes, who killed twelve... Read More
On International Worker’s Day: Rights and Lack Thereof
When you have an office job, it’s easy to gripe about feeling demoralized or disengaged at work, about lack of advancement opportunities, office politics, aging desk furniture or fluorescent lighting, but when you put things... Read More
The Reason Lobby
Washington, DC, is infamous for its lobbyists. Typically, when people think of lobbyists, they picture soulless former government officials who have gone over to private industry in order to make some big money trading on... Read More
