The American Humanist Association does not endorse or oppose political candidates, and I’m not going to do that here. However, the candidates’ positions on issues related to church and state and to tolerance are things... Read More

Last week we looked at the courageous chairman of the US Commission on Civil Rights, Martin Castro. He displayed an unusual level of guts for a Washington bureaucrat by publishing a report telling it like... Read More

The US government has two agencies whose primary purpose is to protect the civil rights of all Americans: the United States Commission on Civil Rights and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. It would be nice... Read More

Catholic schools have been around for a long time. So long as they do a decent job of teaching students the skills they need to thrive in adulthood (as they generally do), and so long... Read More

The scene: late at night, a Georgetown University professor’s office. Highly trained social scientists are racking their brains over a knotty problem. They’ve spent weeks massaging data about the economic impacts of religion, and their... Read More

When the first articles began surfacing about last month’s federal court decision in Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) v. Harris Funeral Homes, they had a distinct “the sky is falling” tone—e.g., “Federal Judge Says Religion... Read More

The picture released (warning, graphic) last month by the Indiana prosecutor’s office of the seven-year-old boy’s back is horrifying. There are thirty-six angry welts and bruises in all, plus another injury not shown to the... Read More