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“Christian Values” Statement Has No Place in Our Government
“[Donald Kauerauf] is outspokenly pro-life and morally opposed to abortion. Missourians know that I share these beliefs and would not have nominated someone who does not share the same Christian values.” The above statement, made earlier... Read More
The Comics Section: Artistic Interpretation and the Horror of Winning
The latest from Cagle Cartoons! Gerrymandering, Covid, Stock Market by Jeff Koterba, CagleCartoons.com Winner! Hottest Year On Record by Peter Kuper, PoliticalCartoons.com
Humanism Offers Hope over Despair
There is not just one humanism. There are cultural variants, emerging humanisms, we must strive to bring into being/existence in a world riddled with multiple/cascading crises. Here one thinks of Anthony Pinn’s humanism with its embrace... Read More
Why We Need More Black Humanists in Academia
THE NUMBER OF AMERICANS who identify as nonreligious has been steadily growing over the last decade. The Gen Z demographic, in particular, is more willing to identify as humanist and atheist than past generations. Greater numbers... Read More
CHURCH & STATE | The Supreme Court Is Trashing Our Rights. What Are We Going to Do?
The U.S. Supreme Court, once seen as the last bastion of protection for our rights, is instead laying waste to them. Stacked with ultra-conservatives, the high court seems especially intent on trashing seventy-plus years of jurisprudence... Read More
REPRESENTATION MATTERS | Spotlight on State Representative Sherry Dutzy
This is part of theHumanist.com’s monthly 2021 series highlighting openly nonreligious elected officials across the nation. There are now more than 80 elected officials, at all levels of government, who identify with the atheist and humanist... Read More
Meet the New Executive Director: Nadya Dutchin
Nadya Dutchin joined the American Humanist Association (AHA) as the organization’s new Executive Director in December 2021. AHA Deputy Director and Humanist magazine editor Nicole Carr conducted this interview with her during her first week on... Read More
Commentary from Nadya Dutchin, AHA Executive Director
I could not be more pleased to greet you as the new Executive Director of the American Humanist Association (AHA). My family is from Guyana and I am a first-generation American who was raised in Minneapolis,... Read More
Sapphire Unbound: The Radical Imagination of bell hooks
“It is time for Sapphire to testify on her own behalf, in writing, complete with footnotes.” Regina Austin, “Sapphire Bound,” 1989. Driving L.A.’s cesspit 405 freeway one afternoon in the late eighties, a voice on the... Read More
Taking Action: A 2021 Legislative Wrap-Up
Congress is making its last concentrated effort to fund the government, raise the debt ceiling, deliver the Defense Authorization Act, and pass voting rights and the Build Back Better Act before they break for holidays. A... Read More