Listen to a speech by CNN founder and philanthropist Ted Turner, who was presented with the 1990 Humanist of the Year Award in Orlando, Florida.

By Cadell Last Last night, I watched a new film, The Master, starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Joaquin Phoenix and Amy Adams, which tells the story of a World War II veteran in 1950 who becomes... Read More

By Jeff Satterwhite A new survey on American religiosity conducted by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life revealed that about one-in-five adults in America now self-identify as “religiously unaffiliated.” The rapidly rising level... Read More

Humanists and atheists are mourning the death of humanist Dr. Paul Kurtz, former editor of the American Humanist Association’s Humanist magazine and founder of the Council for Secular Humanism, who died on Oct. 20, 2012... Read More

My U.S. Supreme Court case Baird v. Eisenstadt legalized birth control nationally on March 22, 1972. Baird was quoted six times in Roe v. Wade and in my two other U.S. Supreme Court cases, Baird v. Bellotti I and Baird v. Bellotti II for minors’... Read More

By Meghan Hamilton A Whisper to a Roar is a new documentary about five politically corrupt and socially torn countries—Malaysia, Ukraine, Venezuela, Zimbabwe, and Egypt—working to transform their government and the overall quality of life... Read More

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