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Communists did It. Is Ed Sheeran among them? There is an old and deeply unpleasant tradition in music: an artist says something politically unacceptable, powerful people object, […]

Catholic schools want public money — While excluding LGBTQ families Catholic preschools in Colorado want access to a taxpayer-funded universal preschool program. At the same time, they want the freedom […]

Blasphemy laws in America? Yes, seriously One of America’s most prominent conservative Christian theologians has backed away from an extraordinary proposal: allowing the g […]

Hey, Putin, we’ve got nukes and troops too Former Russian diplomat Boris Bondarev has delivered an extraordinarily harsh assessment of Europe’s response to Vladimir Putin. His l […]

Jesus! What the Bible sounds like in the first person The Bible is not Jesus’ autobiography. The Gospels are narratives about Jesus, written largely in the third person, while also c […]

Can a face reveal a psychopath? The myth of physiognomy Zohran Mamdani! Look at that face. Look at the eyes, the nose, the beard. A Muslim? A Middle Eastern type! He must be a terrorist—or a […]

Can social media destroy the historical Jesus? Social media cannot prove Jesus never existed. But it can destroy something else—the widespread assumption that the historical Jesus i […]

Female Eiffel Tower workers were hidden during a Hindu delegation's visit Paris has opened an official investigation after allegations that female employees at the Eiffel Tower were removed from public view […]

Northern Ireland moves toward banning LGBT conversion practices Northern Ireland could become the first jurisdiction in the UK or Ireland to enact a specific criminal ban on LGBT conversion […]

Conspiracy AI: Pinpoint the evidence for the puppet masters Let us be precise from the start. There is no secret cabal of one ethnicity, one bloodline, or one club that runs everything. That […]

Hamas wanted to bring October 7 terror to Europe October 7 was apparently not enough. German federal prosecutors have charged seven alleged Hamas members with participating in […]

What would Franz Kafka think about Israel and Gaza? Franz Kafka died in 1924. The State of Israel did not yet exist. The Holocaust had not happened. Neither had the Arab-Israeli wars, […]

MAGA’s Christian America: God for us, Muslims against us Religion is moving closer to the center of American politics. Three developments surrounding the 2026 midterm elections illustrate the […]

Pete Hegseth accused of attacking atheists and non-Christians U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has come under criticism from secular organizations after attacking a religious-freedom group as […]

Emma Bonino dies at 78: Italy loses a giant of secularism and human rights Emma Bonino, one of Italy’s most prominent defenders of civil liberties, secular politics and human rights, died on September 11, 2 […]

Russia sends saint's bones to Ukraine front: A new low in religious manipulation In a move that strains credulity even by the standards of wartime propaganda, the Russian Orthodox Church has dispatched a fragment of […]

How Colonial Education Created Two Nigerias — And Why We Are Still Living in Both of Them The divisions were already visible in the colonial record. By the early twentieth century, British rule had produced a widening […]

China: Cash for snitching on religious people China’s government has found another way to control religious life: encourage ordinary citizens to report one another. Across more t […]

“Allah is lesbian” T-shirt. How many years in prison? More than a year after Moroccan authorities arrested atheist, feminist and LGBTQ rights activist Ibtissame “Betty” Lachgar, she rem […]

Israel’s prisons: When cruelty becomes state policy Israel’s treatment of Palestinian prisoners has moved far beyond a debate about whether convicted terrorists deserve comfortable p […]