Earlier this week, humanists and other reproductive rights advocates experienced a pivotal and much-needed win when the US Supreme Court struck down Texas’s unduly burdensome restrictions on abortion providers and clinics. But there is also... Read More

International affairs suffered quite the shock this past week as the United Kingdom confounded expert opinion by leaving the European Union, spreading panic through the global financial system. But not all is gloom and doom... Read More

Last week the National Institutes of Health cleared the gene-editing technology known as CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats) for its first clinical test of human patients. While the initial test involves editing to... Read More

In a world where religious faith seems to be losing its grip on the policies and politics of our time, it appears that those evangelical forces who would use faith as an explanation to block... Read More

Today I attended the rally outside of the US Supreme Court in anticipation of the decision on Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt,  the most significant abortion case to be decided by the Court since Planned Parenthood v.... Read More

If Donald Trump had his way, we—a humanist news site published by the nonprofit, tax-exempt American Humanist Association—would be able to freely discuss how good or bad a president we think he’d be. But we... Read More

At a recent meeting of the American Astronomical Society, a team of astronomers announced their discovery of the first chiral molecule outside of our solar system. Their exciting findings, published last week in the journal... Read More