In 2010, archeologists from Preservation Virginia discovered four post holes on the Jamestown Settlement (the first successful colonial settlement in the US) which were the remains of what they believe to be the earliest church... Read More

Last Monday, on the anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing, Russian tech capitalist Yuri Milner—who was joined by SETI Institute founder Frank Drake, physicist Stephen Hawking, and astronomer Martin Rees—announced that he would be... Read More

July tends to be a slow month in the legal field, but not this year for the American Humanist Association’s Appignani Humanist Legal Center (AHLC). There’s been no summer lull at the AHLC, where the... Read More

Bo Bennett is an author and host of the American Humanist Association’s podcast The Humanist Hour. His latest project is called “Secular Backstage,” an auction website where people can bid on opportunities to spend one-on-one... Read More

Planned Parenthood has never been a stranger to haters and politicians on the conservative Christian right. Recently, one group made a bold yet unsurprising move in an effort to destroy Planned Parenthood’s image amongst it... Read More

Make no mistake: President Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran is a historic victory for reason. On July 14, the Obama administration accomplished what no previous U.S. administration had the capacity, tact, or patience to do:... Read More

On July 13, President Obama commuted the sentences of forty-six drug offenders, thirteen of which were serving life sentences for nonviolent crimes. These commutations, which began last year under the Clemency Project 2014, now come... Read More