Freethinkers International

Priests, pastors and predators: America’s continuing church abuse scandal For generations, American churches presented themselves as places where parents could safely leave their children. Priests heard […]

Iran’s execution machine is accelerating Iran does not merely execute people convicted of murder or other violent crimes. It executes political prisoners. It executes […]

Israel finally admits its troops killed Hind Rajab. Any accountability? For more than two years, the killing of five-year-old Hind Rajab stood as one of the most haunting episodes of the war in Gaza. A […]

The world is normalizing the Taliban. Half of surveyed Afghan women barely leave home Five years ago, the Taliban marched back into Kabul. Governments condemned them. Western politicians promised that Afghanistan would […]

Don’t want to die from a drug overdose? Pay for it in Latin American jails Latin America suffers from some of the world’s most serious problems with homicide, organized crime, extortion and drug trafficking. G […]

Whipping, cutting fingers and worse: What Russians and Ukrainians do to their own people Wars are usually narrated horizontally. Russians kill Ukrainians, Ukrainians kill Russians, missiles cross borders, armies capture […]

God didn’t say that. Neither did your pastor. AI did Imagine scrolling through social media one evening when your pastor appears on the screen. His face looks familiar, his voice sounds […]

Nigeria’s Muslims and Christians agree on something: Stop dividing us Nigeria is often described through its divisions. Muslim north and Christian south, Hausa and Fulani, farmer and herder, indigenous and […]

The social media utopia: What if people started collaborating? Social media promised to connect humanity. Instead, it often became extraordinarily efficient at sorting humanity into hostile […]

One People, Two Names: The History Behind the Hausa-Fulani Identity And Who Benefits From Breaking It In March 2025, sixteen Hausa hunters travelling to Kano were lynched by a mob. They had not committed any crime. They were […]

The woman who stripped in protest: What Iran did to Ahoo Daryaei In November 2024, a woman walked through the grounds of Tehran’s Islamic Azad University wearing only her underwear. The images […]

We are not racist, but the dead professor was black The death of Professor Jason Arday has left British academia in a state of shock and soul-searching. As politicians and colleagues call […]

The situation in Afghanistan now: Five years under the Taliban Five years ago, on August 15, 2021, Taliban fighters entered Kabul. Afghanistan’s Western-backed government collapsed with a […]

Is “misogynistic” America ready for president AOC? Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has spent much of her political career being treated as simultaneously too young, too radical, too […]

Are Trump and Musk the best friends again? A year ago, Donald Trump and Elon Musk appeared to have transformed one of the strangest alliances in American politics into one of its […]

The spectrum of religious repression: From social pressure to death Religious repression does not always arrive with police officers, prison cells or executioners. Sometimes it arrives at the dinner […]

Would brutal human rights abuses in Iran stop with regime change? There are many ways to discuss Iran. We can talk about nuclear weapons, uranium enrichment, Israel, the Persian Gulf, oil, sanctions, […]

Nigeria Has Banned Street Begging in Almajiri Schools. We Have Heard This Before This month, the Federal Government unveiled what it is calling a comprehensive reform of Nigeria’s Almajiri education system. Street […]

God loves you and has a list of conditions God loves you. This is probably one of the most comforting sentences Christianity has ever produced. The creator of hundreds of […]

Can religion turn gay people straight? Imagine discovering that you are gay and being informed that the solution is remarkably straightforward. You simply need enough prayer, […]