The religious right in Congress is at it again, pushing for more harmful legislation under the guise of religious freedom—legislation that would actually allow for religiously motivated discrimination and other bad behavior. Senator Mike Lee... Read More

While many progressives are still running around like headless chickens, overwhelmed by the excesses and daily indignities of the Trump administration, not everything on Capitol Hill has been so dramatically terrible. In fact, H. Res.... Read More

For months, the American Humanist Association (AHA) and other nontheistic organizations have been fighting bills that seek to repeal the Johnson Amendment, a legal provision prohibiting tax-exempt 501(c)(3) organizations from participating in campaign politics. We’ve... Read More

This week, Congress passed its major tax overhaul after numerous false starts and mistakes forced them to revote on the bill. Regardless of how humanists feel about other sections of the bill, we should be... Read More

One of the most talked about impacts of the 2016 presidential election is the resurgence of the religious right in our nation’s capital. For years, this special interest group had been on the decline, which... Read More

Signifying the growing influence of humanism in our nation’s capital, humanists from around the country came to Washington, DC, this week to meet with twenty congressional offices in order to discuss the Johnson Amendment—specifically what... Read More

President Trump and his religious right allies in Congress are at it again, attacking the Johnson Amendment in another attempt to weaken the wall of separation between church and state and the integrity of our... Read More