Progressive and mainstream humanists, Catholics, Protestants, Jews and others of good will need to concentrate on what unites us, not on what divides us. Divisive ad campaigns invite blowback and stimulate both ends of the religious spectrum to engage in fruitless bouts of name-calling and invective.

Norman Borlaug has been described by the Nobel Peace Prize Committee as the greatest hunger fighter of our time — for nearly 50 years.

“Supplementing the dollar with a bullion currency would solve some of the problems related to the potential of countries running large deficits and would help stability,”

A large standing military, a large contractor base, and its widespread congressional patronage network cannot survive without war or the threat of war to lubricate the continuing money flow it requires.

A single social program is transforming how countries all over the world help their poor.

Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) – namely cancer, cardiovascular disease, chronic respiratory diseases and diabetes – cause 60% of all global deaths, but receive just 2.3% of international development assistance for health.

We’ll accept the Universe as our neighbor, as cool wallpaper, and not get too exercised about its existence – this remoteness buffers us from intruders.

This is what happens when large numbers of people gather in the nation’s public squares, as they did last year in Washington. Hope is given light, the aroma of freedom blesses all who are there, new beginnings are sensed and pledged.

Today Humanism is a captive and exploited philosophy, shot for its antlers and hijacked for its name by aggressive atheists.

In place of Genesis we now have scientism—the idea that science alone can speak truth about man and his world. This approach is as one-dimensional as its predecessor, and as boorish as it is simplistic.