NONEDECISION 2020 | Four Decades of the None Vote
Since 1980, the year Ronald Reagan was elected, there have been ten presidential elections. According to exit poll data in each of those elections, the majority of nones—people with no religious affiliation—have voted for the... Read More
HUMANIST DILEMMA | Dare I Join the Daughters of the American Revolution?
Not the Daughter They Think I Am: I’ve been looking for the perfect place to voice my concern and think your column may be best. I am an open atheist and humanist chaplain who recently... Read More
More Holiday Humility, Less Hypocritical Hype Reflections on Our Goodwill Season
So many gods, so many creeds, So many paths that wind and wind, While just the art of being kind Is all this sad world needs. – Ella Wheeler Wilcox (American author and poet) There... Read More
Nonedecision 2020: Nones and the Changing Composition of Party Coalitions
In last month’s inaugural Nonedecision 2020 column I focused on the nones—Americans who claim no religious affiliation—and their electoral preferences in presidential elections since 1980. We learned that in the past four decades, at least... Read More
What Would a Humanist Do? Airing Grievances at a Funeral
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
No, We Shouldn’t Lie to Our Children about God and Death
The Wall Street Journal opinion page has advice for nontheist parents: tell your kids God and heaven are real even if you don’t believe it. Writing on December 5, therapist Erica Komisar notes that she’s often asked... Read More
There on Fridays: The Humanist Environmental Response Effort Humanists join celebrities and thousands of others to demand climate action
Last Friday, hundreds of thousands of young activists marched in cities around the world—from Kampala, Uganda, to Des Moines, Iowa—demanding crucial action on the climate crisis that experts and scientists have unanimously agreed poses an... Read More