Is the Truth Unpatriotic?

In a speech at the National Archives Museum on September 17 (Constitution Day), President Donald Trump proposed the creation of the 1776 Commission to promote a more “pro-American” education program while warning of a radical... Read More
Offering a Humanist Hand to Asylum Seekers

Bordering the United States, Tijuana is a crowded, bustling Mexican city that looks out over the calm Pacific Ocean and at the same time bears an appalling murder rate. For the second year running, it... Read More
Trolling and Controlling: Harming Trans Athletes Is Not a Humanist Sport

A few weeks ago this story was shared on the Facebook page of the American Humanist Association (AHA) to celebrate a preliminary injunction by a federal judge against Idaho’s backwards Fairness in Women’s Sports Act.... Read More
Relax, Studying Theology Doesn’t Make You Religious It may even enhance your humanism

Fall welcomes a new semester at Meadville Lombard Theological School (MLTS), where the American Humanist Association (AHA) Center for Education will be offering two of its four graduate-level courses in humanism. Earlier this month, criticism... Read More
Technology Is a Human Right So let’s make sure everyone can use it

In today’s COVID-19 world, everything is digital. Happy hours are now 5 p.m. Zoom calls, first-time dates are on FaceTime, four-year-olds are learning the ABCs from an iPad. This is an incredibly common topic of... Read More
100 YEARS OF WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE: Celebrating a Centennial and Reckoning with the Past

In 2019, Democratic women from the US House of Representatives invoked the suffragists of a century before by wearing white to the State of the Union. It was a powerful symbol of solidarity and a... Read More
What Would a Humanist Do? Can I Ask My Neighbor to Stop Blowing Smoke?

What Would a Humanist Do? offers multiple opinions on the same question. What exactly qualifies as a humanist problem, readers often ask. Our answer: humanists are committed to being good without a God, but sometimes they... Read More