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

Picture this: a blond white woman wearing a black tank top and playing a white electric guitar graces the title page of Music Radar’s recent article shouting out the ten leading blues guitar players in... Read More

President Donald Trump strutted onto the stage at the National Prayer Breakfast last week, brandishing newspapers with bold headlines declaring him acquitted in the Senate impeachment trial. In his address the president took what the... Read More

Discussions in the World Economic Forum (WEF) are historically mundane, with world leaders debating how to spur key trade deals and the like. However, things have been heating up as the climate crisis has become... Read More