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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 […]

The Fish Under the Chair: Four Boys Are Dead, and We Need to Talk About Why Their names were Abdulfatah Mohammed, 15. Yusuf Nuhu, 16. Buhari Iliyasu, 14. Ibrahim Muhammad, 22. On Sunday night, August 16, […]

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 […]

There is no “me”, only a network of neurons We wake up every morning with an extraordinarily convincing impression. There is someone inside our heads. There is a “me” obs […]

Ruhollah Khomeini wrote about sex with children and animals. Perhaps he should have studied economics instead Ruhollah Khomeini is remembered primarily as the architect of Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution and the founder of the Islamic Republic. H […]

Should priests be allowed to keep child abuse secret? Imagine a man enters a church, sits across from a priest and admits that he has sexually abused a child. The priest now knows […]

More than 100 British and French diplomats say Palestine is being erased. Will their governments act? There is something unusual about diplomats abandoning diplomatic language. More than 100 former senior British and French diplomats […]

Born Guilty: The History of Witchcraft Accusations Against Children in Northern Nigeria In March 2024, a young boy in Alkaleri Local Government Area, Bauchi State, reportedly lost his eyesight after an attack linked to […]

Gross neglect of drug addicts in the US: Only celebrities are visible Hayden Panettiere was famous, successful and recognizable to millions. She was also remarkably open about addiction. She described […]