Here’s How Humanists Voted: Survey Results from the American Humanist Association
After the 2016 presidential election, the American Humanist Association asked its members and supporters to fill out a survey in which they anonymously reported... Read More
A Chaplain’s Perspective on Trump: When America is the Patient
It has been just over a week since the country elected Donald Trump to serve as its next president. Many Americans are happy to... Read More
The Necessary Chore of Talking to Trump Supporters
In the wake of the 2016 election results, pundits and analysts trying to understand Trump voters continue to center the pain and desires of... Read More
Post-Election, Humanist Activism Kicks into Overdrive
It’s been a week since Donald Trump’s harrowing victory. I’m in a mental space where my dismay and fury over this precarious predicament remains... Read More
“This Is a Movement, Not a Moment!”: In It for the Long Haul in Protesting Trump
Last night, I marched with hundreds of other people in Washington, DC, from the Trump International Hotel to the White House. The people there... Read More
Don’t Despair! Humanist Values Prevailed in Several State Ballot Initiatives
For months I’ve been anxious to see Loving, a new film featuring the true story of Mildred and Richard Loving, the plaintiffs in the... Read More
Ignorance Won. Can We Return to Reason?
The time is past due for progressive America to rethink its strategies. As the number of secular freethinkers has risen, they, along with people... Read More
Staff Picks: Favorite Cocktail Recipes & Other Forms of Election Stress Relief
For many of us, this has been a tumultuous and enormously divisive presidential election season with very high stakes, but we’re finally at the... Read More
Rules Are for Schmucks: Trump, Church, and State
The American Humanist Association does not endorse or oppose political candidates, and I’m not going to do that here. However, the candidates’ positions on... Read More
The Case for Re-Enfranchisement
I was registering voters not too long before the California primary in June when two men came in. One registered, and the other thanked... Read More