Please welcome the American Humanist Association’s new communications and social media intern, Marry Lim! TheHumanist.com: What is your educational and work background? I'm currently attending New York University, majoring in international business management. This semester... Read More

The American Humanist Association is proud to have active humanist groups in forty-six states and the District of Columbia, and we love helping people form new groups. (If you’re a humanist in Hawaii, Kansas, New... Read More

It’s 2020. Campaigning is in the air, and you can’t go outside without smelling partisanship. If you’re active in a humanist or other secular organization at the local level, chances are you’ve been asked what... 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

Consider the term “school choice.” It sounds nice, but in reality it’s a friendly name for a political ideology that, at its core, threatens to undermine public schools, effective state budgeting, and the separation of... Read More

In commemoration of Darwin Day (February 12), it’s worth noting that evolution has been a controversial topic in US politics since at least the Scopes Trial of 1925. And of course it continues to stoke... Read More

In the first month of 2020, state legislators across the country proposed a host of laws aimed to infringe on the separation of church and state and further religiously based discrimination. Last week, you may... Read More