Staff Picks: Favorite Halloween Costumes & Candy
In years past, the staff here at TheHumanist.com and the American Humanist Association have shared our favorite Halloween films, but this year it gets... Read More
The Humanist Dilemma: When Is It Appropriate to Force an Ailing Parent to Get Outside Help?
Experiencing an ethical dilemma? Need advice from a humanist perspective? Send your questions to The Humanist Dilemma at dilemma@thehumanist.com (subject line: Humanist Dilemma). All... Read More
The Comics Section: Looking to the Koran for Women’s Equality
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Rules Are for Schmucks: Hollow Victory in Parsonage Case
First the good news: the secular team just won a victory in court, declaring part of the “parsonage exemption” in the federal tax code... Read More
Weathering the Storm: AHA Shelters the Constitution amid International Vitriol
You've likely already read in this publication, if not elsewhere, about the American Humanist Association’s recent court victory in the Bladensburg cross case. A... Read More
Bedeviling the Anti-Choice Crusade
For antiabortion crusaders hell bent on chipping away at women’s right to choose, it really does seem like the devil is in the details.... Read More
Fostering Inclusive Humanism at FREEFLO
Last weekend I took part in FREEFLO, a freethought conference organized by the Florida Humanist Association (a chapter of the American Humanist Association). Hundreds... Read More
The Humanevangelist: To Censor Government Scientists Is to Undermine Democracy
The administration of George W. Bush was not known for gushing green. On the contrary, it brushed aside the views of mainstream climate scientists,... Read More
Religious Freedom and the “Jurisprudence of the Absurd”
As a presidential candidate, Donald Trump got a lot of traction with his promise to build a “big, beautiful” wall along the US-Mexico border... Read More
Building Humanism, Busting Myth and Privilege
ADAM SAVAGE is, broadly speaking, a maker of things, having built everything, as he’s characterized it, “from ancient Buddhas to futuristic weapons, from spaceships... Read More