During the 72nd Annual American Humanist Association Conference May 30-June 2, 2013, Dan Savage will accept the Humanist of the Year award, the latest in a long line of notable and celebrated awardees stretching back... Read More

Update Aug. 7 2013: The Bill as passed. Details from Metro Weekly can be found here. A copy of the bill can be seen here. On March 14, 2013, a public hearing on Bill 20-118,... Read More

Most active freethinkers see humanism as secular; as Bill Maher hilariously put it, “Atheism is a religion like abstinence is a sex position.” So it’s not surprising that nine out of ten members said they... Read More

Lessons in humility ought to be learned from disasters, especially those that involve the possibility or certainty of killing us. Given the history and habits of Homo sapiens, amazingly enough some of these disasters are... Read More

Thanks to everyone who entered our "Guess the Humanist of the Year" contest! One of the pictures tripped a few of you up, but we did get a number of entries with all the correct... Read More

At an early age, black girls are branded as public menaces. They are suspended and expelled for “defiance” at greater rates than white boys who commit actual felony offenses. They pack the juvenile halls and... Read More

This past weekend I had the pleasure of attending the National Atheist Party’s second annual convention, which this year was held in beautiful San Francisco, California. Speakers for the event included myself, past AHA President... Read More