Whose Bodies? Black Lives Matter and the Reproductive Justice Imperative
Over the past several years toxic canards like “abortion is black genocide” and “the most dangerous place for a black child is the womb,” which are often cloaked in civil rights rhetoric, have been used... Read More
Finding Empathy in the Evolution Debate
This past December resolutions were introduced in both the U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives to designate February 12 Darwin Day, in recognition of the impact Charles Darwin's theory of evolution has had on... Read More
Infected with Dogma: How South America’s Response to the Zika Virus Fails Women
Seemingly overnight, a virus once previously thought to be mild has received national attention and elicited warnings from international organizations. Spreading now across more than two dozen countries, the Zika virus was once considered to... Read More
Terror-Go-Round: Breaking the Cycle of Xenophobia
As the German and French national football teams entertained a crowd of 80,000 supporters inside Paris’s Stade de France on Friday, November 13, three cowardly men—hellbent on the destruction of modernity and peace—tried unsuccessfully to... Read More
Why the Humanist Magazine Matters
(Please see AHA’s statement on sexual harassment allegations against Dr. Krauss here.) I FRANKLY ADMIT that when I first learned the Humanist magazine and the American Humanist Association were turning seventy-five in 2016, I was... Read More
How Much Tolerance is Tolerable? The danger, disservice, and dishonesty of equating tolerance for people of differing faith with tolerance for religious beliefs and ideas
In the past two months alone, an abhorrent wave of terror has taken the lives of hundreds of people and left thousands feeling devastated. Mogadishu, Beirut, Baghdad, Paris, Mali, and San Bernadino, are just some... Read More
The Decline of the Western Ethnic State
If you were transported back to Europe in 1900 and you asked educated citizens to describe the ideal political arrangement, what they would most certainly outline to you is a homogeneous nation-state: France for the... Read More
