“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

In 2008, the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life published a survey on America’s religious landscape, and for the first time, the research found that there are millions of Americans who retain the label... 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

As American children return to school, many will be enrolled in science classes where they will learn the important basics about the Big Bang, evolution, and global warming. Yet, even today a number of states... Read More