Smashed. Unprecedented. Historic. As minutely detailed by the US Election Project, 2020 is shattering records for early voting. As of 9 a.m. today, 45,272,131 people have cast ballots in the US presidential election. The Election... Read More

Please welcome the new social justice programming intern, Kamilah Arteaga! TheHumanist.com: What is your educational and work background? I am currently a junior at Stanford University majoring in comparative studies in race and ethnicity with a subplan... Read More

In mid-September the Trump administration held its first “White House Conference on American History” at which the president promised to “defend the legacy of America’s founding, the virtue of America’s heroes, and the nobility of... Read More

The death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg last Friday left an enormously important vacancy to fill on the bench of the Supreme Court of the United States. Unfortunately, Donald Trump and the Republicans in the Senate... Read More

Bordering the United States, Tijuana is a crowded, bustling Mexican city that looks out over the calm Pacific Ocean and at the same time bears an appalling murder rate. For the second year running, it... Read More

Those who find themselves living in the American South quickly become familiar with what at first may seem an unusual sight: statues and memorials on public land that glorify the Confederacy. As a Southern native... Read More

This Sunday, August 30, I will be giving a virtual presentation for Atheists United in Los Angeles, California. The talk, titled “The Nones and the Future of American Politics,” offers a deep dive into the... Read More