In midterm elections, the party that holds the White House normally loses seats in Congress—sometimes a lot of seats. In 1994, two years into Bill Clinton’s presidency, the Democrats lost fifty-four seats in the U.S.... Read More

As I was writing these words, the Supreme Court was poised to overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 ruling that established a right to abortion. By the time you read this, it may have... Read More

Books are in trouble in the United States. Books are being removed from public school curricula. Books are being banned. Books are being burned. The recent wave of censorship in America is accompanied by a... Read More

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... Read More

I hope you had a chance to listen to Dr. Anthony S. Fauci’s remarks during the recent American Humanist Association virtual conference or read them in this issue. Listening to Fauci’s words, I felt pride... Read More

One year from now, you might be holding the Summer 2022 issue of the Humanist and reading very bad news: Abortion is illegal in dozens of U.S. states. Unthinkable? Not at all. The US Supreme... Read More

Way back in 1988, I wrote a story about Christian Reconstructionists, a hard­line faction of the religious right whose members openly espouse theocracy. The version of Christianity Reconstructionists sought to merge with the government would... Read More