The worst things feminists have ever said
[ 4 minutes to read] Feminism has been one of the most consequential movements for human rights in modern history. Women…
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The Girls Who Never Came Back: Northern Nigeria’s Other Education Crisis
[ 6 minutes to read] In November 2025, armed men stormed a girls’ boarding school in Maga, Kebbi State, at 4am….
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U.S. appeals court blocks DOJ attempt to obtain transgender patients’ medical records
[ 4 minutes to read] Medical records contain some of the most private information a person can possess. Diagnoses, treatments, medications…
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The end of separation of church and state?
[ 7 minutes to read] For more than two centuries, one principle has occupied a special place in American political culture:…
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One Israeli embassy call and a band critical of Israel no longer makes an appearance
[ 6 minutes to read] A band is invited to perform at a Jewish cultural festival. The concert is arranged almost…
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Born Guilty: The History of Witchcraft Accusations Against Children in Northern Nigeria
[ 5 minutes to read] In March 2024, a young boy in Alkaleri Local Government Area, Bauchi State, reportedly lost his…
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Priests, pastors and predators: America’s continuing church abuse scandal
[ 12 minutes to read] For generations, American churches presented themselves as places where parents could safely leave their children. Priests…
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Whipping, cutting fingers and worse: What Russians and Ukrainians do to their own people
[ 11 minutes to read] Wars are usually narrated horizontally. Russians kill Ukrainians, Ukrainians kill Russians, missiles cross borders, armies capture…
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The social media utopia: What if people started collaborating?
[ 8 minutes to read] Social media promised to connect humanity. Instead, it often became extraordinarily efficient at sorting humanity into…
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One People, Two Names: The History Behind the Hausa-Fulani Identity And Who Benefits From Breaking It
[ 6 minutes to read] In March 2025, sixteen Hausa hunters travelling to Kano were lynched by a mob. They had…
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Are Trump and Musk the best friends again?
[ 9 minutes to read] A year ago, Donald Trump and Elon Musk appeared to have transformed one of the strangest…
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The spectrum of religious repression: From social pressure to death
[ 23 minutes to read] Religious repression does not always arrive with police officers, prison cells or executioners. Sometimes it arrives…
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God loves you and has a list of conditions
[ 8 minutes to read] God loves you. This is probably one of the most comforting sentences Christianity has ever produced….
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What Heaven really looks like according to the Bible
[ 47 minutes to read] Few subjects have fascinated humanity more than heaven. Every civilization has imagined a paradise awaiting the…
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The Medicine Men: How Unregulated Drug Sellers Endanger Public Health in Nigeria
[ 8 minutes to read] Go to any bus stop in Kano, Bauchi, or Kaduna. You will find him. He has…
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The media like the establishment: Another Watergate impossible?
[ 6 minutes to read] When the Watergate scandal forced President Richard Nixon to resign in 1974, it became the defining…
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Will political culture deteriorate even more?
[ 5 minutes to read] For much of the twentieth century, democratic politics operated according to a relatively stable set of…
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Gender inequality: Innate or acquired?
[ 12 minutes to read] Few debates have generated more political heat than the origins of gender inequality. One side argues…
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The evolution of Satan: A God’s servant and the Prince of evil
[ 20 minutes to read] You think you know him, of course. The red skin, the horns, the pitchfork, the tail….
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The curse of privilege: Why I don’t believe in free will
[ 19 minutes to read] Every successful person enjoys hearing that they deserve everything they have achieved. Society constantly celebrates hard…
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The Amish, the Hasidic, and the Taliban: Who is more extreme?
[ 14 minutes to read] It is a comparison that appears surprisingly often. Images of Amish horse-drawn buggies, Hasidic Jews in…
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A circus came to the US. After years, the show was over
[ 2 minutes to read] Once upon a time, there was a country called the United States. Long ago, its politics…
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The Bible: Killing children, rape, homosexuality and much more
[ 27 minutes to read] Few books have shaped human civilization as profoundly as the Bible. It has inspired magnificent works…
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Pride marches: Beneficial or detrimental?
[ 10 minutes to read] Few social movements have changed Western society as profoundly as the fight for LGBTQ+ rights. A…
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The Almajiri Pipeline: How a Centuries-Old System Became a Recruitment Ground for Extremism in Northern Nigeria
[ 5 minutes to read] The Boy on the Road He is easy to miss. He stands at a junction in…
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Even the Pope can be sometimes right
[ 3 minutes to read] I am not only an atheist, but I also dispute central tenets of Christianity. I believe…
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Your Rights, Your Body: What Nigerian Law Says About Witchcraft Accusations And Why Nobody Told You
[ 5 minutes to read] A Boy in Nasarawa. A Law Nobody Used. When Ovey Friday was 13 years old, his…
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The Business of Blessings: How Spiritual Exploitation Drains the Poor
[ 4 minutes to read] The Transaction A farmer in Bauchi State harvests his groundnuts. The season was hard. The rains…
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How did the West make the world religiously radicalized?
[ 5 minutes to read] Modern religious radicalization did not emerge from religion alone. Instead, it emerged from collapsing states, foreign…
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Is there an escape from the Orthodox Jewish community?
[ 6 minutes to read] People ask a simple question. Can someone leave a tightly structured religious world and build a…
