Please welcome the AHA's new Policy Coordinator, Isabella Russian! TheHumanist.com: What is your educational and work background? I attended Arizona State University, receiving a Bachelors degree in Political Science, a minor in Justice Studies, and... Read More

We’re previewing more of the exciting sessions you’ll see when you attend the American Humanist Association’s (AHA) upcoming 81st Annual Conference. The Conference will be entirely virtual again this year, so you can join us... Read More

This year the American Humanist Association (AHA) is celebrating more than eighty years of humanist thought and action by bringing our humanist community together again for the 2022 Virtual Conference. We hope you’ll join us... Read More

A decline in public investment in education has caused great hardship for students across the country trying to keep up with decades of skyrocketing tuition costs and piling student loans. In the last 40 years,... Read More

On Friday, Representative Jamie Raskin (MD-8) and Representative Jared Huffman (CA-2)—both founding members of the Congressional Freethought Caucus—introduced a resolution to recognize May 4th, 2022 as a “National Day of Reason.” The resolution is co-sponsored... Read More

For humanists and others without supernatural belief systems, ethical values are most effectively expressed through tangible, meaningful acts. Actions have the potential to inspire and engage a broad range of people in a way that... Read More

On May 6, 1863, an American abolitionist mounted the platform at South Place Chapel, Finsbury, a London venue long home to religious dissenters and political radicals. Over the following months, he—then still a Unitarian clergyman—would... Read More