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What if Richard Dawkins really makes a deathbed conversion? Richard Dawkins has spent much of his life arguing that there is almost certainly no God. Yet if one day the news announces that the […]

Donald Trump may inspire and beat his family There are politicians who defend the traditional family. Then there are politicians who apparently need the police to prevent them from […]

Russia arrests prominent palliative-care advocate over anti-war stance Russia has prosecuted one of the country’s best-known advocates for terminally ill children because she publicly condemned the war in […]

U.S. accused of a year of extrajudicial killings at sea For one year, the United States has been killing people aboard small boats in the Caribbean Sea and eastern Pacific Ocean. The Trump […]

U.S. appeals court blocks DOJ attempt to obtain transgender patients’ medical records Medical records contain some of the most private information a person can possess. Diagnoses, treatments, medications and personal […]

They won’t admit Jesus didn’t exist. It is the opium of the people The establishment will not admit the truth. The media will not say it. Rich interest groups refuse to consider it. Even Christian […]

Mussolini would have been proud: Italy’s far right is moving into the political establishment Italy knows better than almost any European country what can happen when extreme nationalism stops being a fringe phenomenon and […]

Israel has a plan to empty Gaza. It Is just waiting for Trump Israel’s government is openly discussing a future in which large numbers of Palestinians leave the Gaza Strip. The idea is no longer c […]

Trump targets Soros and left-wing nonprofits in sweeping crackdown Donald Trump’s administration is preparing a broader campaign against nonprofit organizations that it accuses of financing political v […]

The Taliban wants American investment: Will it get it? Five years after returning to power in Afghanistan, the Taliban has an unexpected message for the United States: come back and bring […]

What will happen when Le Pen and AfD win? The European far right no longer lives on the political margins. In France, Marine Le Pen’s National Rally has become one of the c […]

Germany is working with the Taliban to deport Afghans. Pragmatism or normalization? Germany does not recognize the Taliban as Afghanistan’s legitimate government. Yet Taliban representatives are now in Germany, and t […]

Trump’s attempt to deport pro-Palestinian students for their speech suffers a major court defeat The Trump administration wanted to use immigration law against international students who criticized Israel or publicly supported […]

Venezuela after Trump: Did removing Maduro actually improve the humanitarian crisis? When Donald Trump ordered the US intervention in Venezuela and Nicolás Maduro was captured in January 2026, one obvious question […]

Netanyahu will probably never end up in The Hague Freethinkers International readers may have been spot on. When we recently asked whether Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu […]

The end of separation of church and state? For more than two centuries, one principle has occupied a special place in American political culture: government should neither […]

One Israeli embassy call and a band critical of Israel no longer makes an appearance A band is invited to perform at a Jewish cultural festival. The concert is arranged almost a year in advance. Then, shortly before the […]

Where did belief in God decline? And the sad news: The 21st century will still be a century of religion For anyone expecting religion simply to disappear as education, science and technology advance, the first decades of the 21st century […]

Catholic abuse survivors get a point system for their trauma Imagine being sexually abused as a child by someone representing one of the world’s most powerful religious institutions. Decades […]

Nearly 3,000 people publicly flogged under Taliban rule Public flogging sounds like something from another century. In Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, however, it is happening in the […]