One entire year without justice, without communication, without rights ensured, without seeing family or friends. One year imprisoned without charges. Today marks the anniversary of the arrest and subsequent illegal detention of Mubarak Bala, President... Read More

To celebrate the American Humanist Association’s (AHA) 80th anniversary, we first revisited and reflected on some of our greatest accomplishments throughout the years. What about the next 80 years? Yogi Berra once said, “If you... Read More

The humanist movement has a long, rich history that led to the creation of the American Humanist Association (AHA) 80 years ago this month. Humanism’s secular, ethical, and science based philosophy grew from its roots... Read More

Last Friday, the Congressional Freethought Caucus held its inaugural Thomas Paine Breakfast where climate scientist Dr. Michael Mann and political theorist Dr. Danielle Allen joined members of Congress for a compelling discussion about how science,... Read More

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