In The Librarians, the latest documentary from Kim A. Snyder, we meet heroines in Texas, Florida, and beyond who are defending books—and the people and perspectives within—from those who would banish or burn them.
News Archive
Commentary
Perspective
Come for the Beaches, Stay for the Bacteria and Book Bans
Despite all the “parental rights” I supposedly have here in Florida, I couldn’t feel more concerned about our children’s safety and well-being.
Humor
Figgerin’
You don’t need facts and perspective to sort what’s what from what’s not. Clinical studies have shown that all you need is your noggin.
Perspective
A Classroom Divided: The rise of released time for religious instruction
Most of us assume the school day belongs to the school. But buried in a 1952 Supreme Court decision is a sentence being used to redraw that assumption.
Perspective
It’s All Fun and Games ‘Til Someone Gets Indoctrinated
I want my children to know things as they truly were, so they may acknowledge the dark periods of our shared history and strive toward a better future.
Perspective
The Youth Mental Health Crisis Is Not Helped by Religious Dogma
For those concerned about youth mental health, bringing in unlicensed religious adherents to preach their brand of nonscientific rationale for mental health concerns and to potentially ask that issues like anxiety and depression simply be prayed away will only make things worse.
President's Letter
A Fight for the Foundation of our Democracy
Public education is often called the bedrock of American democracy. That is precisely why public schools have become the primary battleground for the Christian Nationalist movement.
Grassroots
Christian Nationalists Are Coordinated, and So Are We
What began in 2023 as a response to a single bad law has since become one of the strongest interfaith and secular coalitions defending real religious freedom in public education.
Advocacy
Death by a Thousand Opt-Outs: The Weaponization of “Parents’ Rights” Against Public Education
A decades-long effort by white Christian Nationalists has transformed “parental rights” into a weapon to censor curricula, control what all children learn, and ultimately dismantle public education as we know it.
Why I Am An Atheist
Sixteen Years, Zero Regrets
Had you told my younger, indoctrinated self that I would one day discard Christianity and be better for it, I would have laughed you out of the room.
Commentary
A Term for the Worse: Supreme Court Rulings Again Put Faith Over Freedom
Our summer law clerks analyze the Supreme Court’s just-completed term and the continued consequences of the Christian Nationalist supermajority on the bench.
Board Chair's Letter
Relocating the World Humanist Congress: A Difficult but Necessary Decision
We are witnessing the dismantling of foundational freedoms and the weaponization of the state to stifle dissent, suppress civil society, and silence voices like ours. The repressive actions of this regime not only obstruct our ability to gather in peace but strike at the very heart of what our community stands for.
