Margaret Atwood wrote in The Handmaid’s Tale that “nothing changes instantaneously: in a gradually heating bathtub, you'd be boiled to death before you knew it.” Two recent stories from the US Department of Justice and... Read More

White House Deputy Director of Homeland Security Ken Cuccinelli. White House Advisor and Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner. Former congressman Jason Chaffetz (R-UT). All vocal opponents of inclusive immigration policies and all people whose ancestors... Read More

Like a belated New Year’s present to his steadfast base, on January 31, 2020, President Trump added six countries—Eritrea, Kyrgyzstan, Sudan, Myanmar, Tanzania, and Nigeria, which is Africa’s most populous country and largest economy—to his administration’s... Read More

Fifty years ago, in 1970, the Missi­ssippi Supreme Court decided that the ban on the teaching of evolution in the state’s public schools was unconstitutional. It was the last of the statutes prohibiting the teaching... Read More

Giving Greatest Good: Recently I heard someone arguing—with data to back up his point—that dollars donated to things like poverty, hunger, illiteracy, and disease get way more bang for the buck than dollars donated to... Read More

Today we bring you our latest installment of “What Would a Humanist Do?”—offering multiple AHA staff opinions on the same question. As with our long-running “Humanist Dilemma” column by Joan Reisman-Brill, readers often ask what... Read More

On January 20, 2020, Virginia became the thirty-eighth state to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment. This was likely a surprise to the majority of Americans, who believed the United States Constitution already guaranteed women rights... Read More