Intersex rights need laws, not another awareness day
[ 3 minutes to read] A child’s body should not undergo irreversible changes simply because adults find it difficult to accept….
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Disabled people need rights now. Mexico could make them wait until 2031
[ 2 minutes to read] I am disabled myself, so I approach this story with a personal interest in how governments…
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Pray to play? College athletes face religious pressure
[ 2 minutes to read] A college athlete should have to prove their ability, not their faith. Yet a new investigation…
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Could AI undermine the foundations of the Enlightenment?
[ 3 minutes to read] Artificial intelligence could give more people access to knowledge than any previous technology. Yet it could…
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J. K. Rowling vows to keep funding the fight against trans activism
[ 3 minutes to read] J. K. Rowling has pledged to continue financing legal cases connected to her opposition to trans…
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Would you accept your own religious argument from another religion?
[ 5 minutes to read] A Christian describes feeling Jesus during prayer. A Muslim describes finding certainty in the Quran. A…
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Did Jesus exist? Methods and bias
[ 13 minutes to read] Whether Jesus of Nazareth existed often looks like a simple question with a simple answer. Christians…
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Does AI undermine human rights?
[ 2 minutes to read] An AI system does not need to sound hateful to produce an answer that undermines human…
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America won’t confront Iran’s execution machine. It loves its own too much
[ 3 minutes to read] Iran’s execution machine operates on a scale that should provoke relentless international condemnation. Yet Washington’s own…
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A veteran wants migrant boats shot at. The applause is chilling
[ 2 minutes to read] At 92, Major-General Julian Thompson has lived through war and commanded men in combat. Yet the…
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Women win fewer Nobels—but does that prove discrimination?
[ 2 minutes to read] Women remain a small minority of Nobel laureates. However, that imbalance alone cannot establish discrimination. Researchers…
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Milk has more safety rules than AI, Microsoft president warns
[ 3 minutes to read] A carton of milk must meet safety standards. According to Microsoft president Brad Smith, artificial intelligence…
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Are we torturing more people than ever before?
[ 4 minutes to read] Electric shocks, rape, simulated drowning, mock executions and beatings. We associate torture with medieval dungeons and…
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Einstein’s belief in Jesus? “Unquestionably” Actually, questionably
[ 3 minutes to read] Albert Einstein accepted the historical existence of Jesus. When interviewer George Sylvester Viereck asked him directly…
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Trump’s religious funding problem goes beyond abortion
[ 3 minutes to read] The government should not use public money to strengthen religious organizations or advance their doctrines. That…
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America’s livestreamed execution: Welcome to the Middle Ages
[ 4 minutes to read] The United States government plans to put a man before a firing squad and broadcast his…
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Rubio puts “America First” above global solidarity
[ 2 minutes to read] U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio criticized the idea of putting the global community ahead of…
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Dolly found safety, now she needs online work. Will you give her the chance?
[ 2 minutes to read] Graphic design, Website design, Video Editing, Logo design, Illustrations, Medical billing Some of you already know…
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God gets an office at the Pentagon
[ 3 minutes to read] Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has announced a new Office of Religious Affairs at the Pentagon. The…
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From heaven to extinction: AI’s strangely religious future
[ 5 minutes to read] Artificial intelligence is supposed to represent the future. Yet some of the stories surrounding it sound…
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“Pedos should hang”: The U.S.–Europe divide
[ 7 minutes to read] The language can sound like something from an anonymous social-media account: hang them, execute them, castrate…
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Masked men chant ‘Christ is King’ as Britain’s new Christian nationalist movement takes to the streets
[ 4 minutes to read] Hundreds of men dressed in black. Balaclavas covering their faces. Roads blocked. Traffic brought to a…
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Fanatically pro-Israeli Czechs started to support Palestinians
[ 4 minutes to read] I do it. I read Czech discussions where Palestinians are described as Islamist, stupid, terrorist “brown…
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Communists did It. Is Ed Sheeran among them?
[ 4 minutes to read] There is an old and deeply unpleasant tradition in music: an artist says something politically unacceptable,…
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Blasphemy laws in America? Yes, seriously
[ 4 minutes to read] One of America’s most prominent conservative Christian theologians has backed away from an extraordinary proposal: allowing…
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Hey, Putin, we’ve got nukes and troops too
[ 4 minutes to read] Former Russian diplomat Boris Bondarev has delivered an extraordinarily harsh assessment of Europe’s response to Vladimir…
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Can a face reveal a psychopath? The myth of physiognomy
[ 9 minutes to read] Zohran Mamdani! Look at that face. Look at the eyes, the nose, the beard. A Muslim?…
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Conspiracy AI: Pinpoint the evidence for the puppet masters
[ 4 minutes to read] Let us be precise from the start. There is no secret cabal of one ethnicity, one…
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Emma Bonino dies at 78: Italy loses a giant of secularism and human rights
[ 4 minutes to read] Emma Bonino, one of Italy’s most prominent defenders of civil liberties, secular politics and human rights,…
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Taliban justice: Violence against women is acceptable until it leaves serious injuries
[ 5 minutes to read] The Taliban’s system of repression in Afghanistan has reached another disturbing milestone. New criminal rules governing…
