The worst things feminists have ever said
[ 4 minutes to read] Feminism has been one of the most consequential movements for human rights in modern history. Women…
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Freethinking students organize against religious coercion in U.S. public schools
[ 3 minutes to read] A growing number of nonreligious students in the United States are organizing to defend their right…
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What if Richard Dawkins really makes a deathbed conversion?
[ 5 minutes to read] Richard Dawkins has spent much of his life arguing that there is almost certainly no God….
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Donald Trump may inspire and beat his family
[ 4 minutes to read] There are politicians who defend the traditional family. Then there are politicians who apparently need the…
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Russia arrests prominent palliative-care advocate over anti-war stance
[ 4 minutes to read] Russia has prosecuted one of the country’s best-known advocates for terminally ill children because she publicly…
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U.S. accused of a year of extrajudicial killings at sea
[ 4 minutes to read] For one year, the United States has been killing people aboard small boats in the Caribbean…
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U.S. appeals court blocks DOJ attempt to obtain transgender patients’ medical records
[ 4 minutes to read] Medical records contain some of the most private information a person can possess. Diagnoses, treatments, medications…
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They won’t admit Jesus didn’t exist. It is the opium of the people
[ 2 minutes to read] The establishment will not admit the truth. The media will not say it. Rich interest groups…
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Mussolini would have been proud: Italy’s far right is moving into the political establishment
[ 5 minutes to read] Italy knows better than almost any European country what can happen when extreme nationalism stops being…
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Israel has a plan to empty Gaza. It Is just waiting for Trump
[ 6 minutes to read] Israel’s government is openly discussing a future in which large numbers of Palestinians leave the Gaza…
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Trump targets Soros and left-wing nonprofits in sweeping crackdown
[ 5 minutes to read] Donald Trump’s administration is preparing a broader campaign against nonprofit organizations that it accuses of financing…
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The Taliban wants American investment: Will it get it?
[ 5 minutes to read] Five years after returning to power in Afghanistan, the Taliban has an unexpected message for the…
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What will happen when Le Pen and AfD win?
[ 6 minutes to read] The European far right no longer lives on the political margins. In France, Marine Le Pen’s…
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Germany is working with the Taliban to deport Afghans. Pragmatism or normalization?
[ 5 minutes to read] Germany does not recognize the Taliban as Afghanistan’s legitimate government. Yet Taliban representatives are now in…
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Trump’s attempt to deport pro-Palestinian students for their speech suffers a major court defeat
[ 4 minutes to read] The Trump administration wanted to use immigration law against international students who criticized Israel or publicly…
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Venezuela after Trump: Did removing Maduro actually improve the humanitarian crisis?
[ 5 minutes to read] When Donald Trump ordered the US intervention in Venezuela and Nicolás Maduro was captured in January…
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Netanyahu will probably never end up in The Hague
[ 4 minutes to read] Freethinkers International readers may have been spot on. When we recently asked whether Israeli Prime Minister…
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The end of separation of church and state?
[ 7 minutes to read] For more than two centuries, one principle has occupied a special place in American political culture:…
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One Israeli embassy call and a band critical of Israel no longer makes an appearance
[ 6 minutes to read] A band is invited to perform at a Jewish cultural festival. The concert is arranged almost…
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Where did belief in God decline? And the sad news: The 21st century will still be a century of religion
[ 6 minutes to read] For anyone expecting religion simply to disappear as education, science and technology advance, the first decades…
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Catholic abuse survivors get a point system for their trauma
[ 4 minutes to read] Imagine being sexually abused as a child by someone representing one of the world’s most powerful…
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Nearly 3,000 people publicly flogged under Taliban rule
[ 5 minutes to read] Public flogging sounds like something from another century. In Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, however, it is happening in…
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There is no “me”, only a network of neurons
[ 9 minutes to read] We wake up every morning with an extraordinarily convincing impression. There is someone inside our heads….
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Ruhollah Khomeini wrote about sex with children and animals. Perhaps he should have studied economics instead
[ 5 minutes to read] Ruhollah Khomeini is remembered primarily as the architect of Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution and the founder…
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Should priests be allowed to keep child abuse secret?
[ 8 minutes to read] Imagine a man enters a church, sits across from a priest and admits that he has…
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More than 100 British and French diplomats say Palestine is being erased. Will their governments act?
[ 8 minutes to read] There is something unusual about diplomats abandoning diplomatic language. More than 100 former senior British and…
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Gross neglect of drug addicts in the US: Only celebrities are visible
[ 11 minutes to read] Hayden Panettiere was famous, successful and recognizable to millions. She was also remarkably open about addiction….
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Priests, pastors and predators: America’s continuing church abuse scandal
[ 12 minutes to read] For generations, American churches presented themselves as places where parents could safely leave their children. Priests…
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Iran’s execution machine is accelerating
[ 8 minutes to read] Iran does not merely execute people convicted of murder or other violent crimes. It executes political…
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Israel finally admits its troops killed Hind Rajab. Any accountability?
[ 7 minutes to read] For more than two years, the killing of five-year-old Hind Rajab stood as one of the…
