When Senator Barbara Mikulski announced she was retiring from the US Senate in Maryland back in March, most political pundits were not necessarily shocked by the news. After ten years in the House and thirty... Read More

The American Humanist Association is thrilled to host Kelly Carlin as the  keynote speaker for our 74th Annual Conference in Denver, Colorado. Carlin, the daughter of legendary comedian George Carlin, will address humanists on Sunday,... Read More

This article has been updated from a post that first appeared on December 16, 2011, at the former Rant ‘n Reason blog. Christopher Hitchens would have been sixty-six years old today. I once met him... Read More

Polite society has long placed taboos on poking fun at religion (not so much with politics anymore). But we here at TheHumanist.com aren’t afraid to point out how much humor it regularly brings to the... Read More

With all of the recent hullaballoo in Arkansas and Indiana about laws which may allow for discrimination based on religious beliefs against LGBTQ Americans, it’s easy to think that our country is sliding backwards in... Read More

A person’s home is a piece of their identity. While being aware that Indiana has a right-wing Christian majority, both theists and nontheists have never been more embarrassed to identify as a “Hoosier” than after... Read More

When the 1.8 million-member Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), the largest Presbyterian denomination in the United States, announced last week that its policies would change to allow ministers to perform same-sex wedding ceremonies, it reminded us that... Read More