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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 qualifies... Read More

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“We’re risking our lives to go to church,” stated the lawyer for a group of Oregon churches suing for the right to resume gathering as normal as the coronavirus pandemic continues. “If we survive, great. If... Read More

On Wednesday, May 20, the American Humanist Association’s Center for Education presents its May Speaker Series event via Zoom (6:30-8:00pm ET) with Sikivu Hutchinson. The author will discuss her new book, Humanists in the Hood: Unapologetically... Read More

THE LAST DISEASE OUTBREAK of pandemic proportions to visit humanity was the Spanish flu in 1918, which killed fifty million people. Prior to that, the bubonic plague (a.k.a. the Black Death)—which, like today’s novel coronavirus, is... Read More

Since its modern conception and ignition well over a decade ago, social media has revolutionized the way people receive and share information. Platforms such as Tumblr, Pinterest, Instagram, Snapchat, Reddit, Facebook, and Twitter are among the... Read More

When US Secretary of Education Betsy Devos announced her intention to restructure Title IX back in November of 2018, it left the educational community nervous and civil rights advocates on alert. Part of the Education Amendments... Read More

“The monster of modernity must be slowed.” —Roger Cohen, May 8, 2020, the New York Times Water, lime and sand made an ancient holy space—smothered by conquest’s heavy stones. As the conqueror’s walls collapse with a... Read More

Please welcome Magdalene Bedi, legal intern for the American Humanist Association’s Appignani Humanist Legal Center! What is your educational background? I received an interdisciplinary BA in communications, legal institutions, economics, and government with a minor in... Read More

Recognizing the powerful potential a secular voting bloc could have on local and national elections, in 2018 Secular America Votes (a joint project of the Secular Student Alliance and other member organizations of the Secular Coalition... Read More