As the American Humanist Association (AHA) celebrates its 80th Anniversary this month, we reflect on some of our legal center milestones. In 2006, Louis Appignani founded the Appignani Humanist Legal Center—AHA’s legal arm—to defend the... Read More

A growing number of us feel that death, when the time is right for us, should be comfortably in our own hands, not in the hands of doctors or lawyers, priests or politicians. We want... Read More

The following excerpt from Roy Speckhardt’s Creating Change Through Humanism (Humanist Press, 2015) is part of theHumanist.com’s month-long celebration of the AHA’s 80th Anniversary in April. Humanism has an impressive history. With deep roots in the early... Read More

As we celebrate the birthday of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and we hope for a peaceful transfer of power this week, we also celebrate the inauguration of something else: a committed public relationship... Read More

“Wuhan. Wuhan was catching on, coronavirus, kung flu, I could give you many, many names. Some people call it the Chinese flu, the China flu, they call it the China.” When the COVID-19 pandemic first... Read More

Even as the Religious Right doubles down on its grip on Midwestern and Southern state legislatures, the U.S. House of Representatives recently passed the Equality Act, which grants historic protections to LGBTQ+ communities in the... Read More

This article is one in a series of articles in March in honor of Women’s History Month. The United States doled out roughly $40 billion dollars in foreign aid last year, but American dollars don’t... Read More