Freethinking students organize against religious coercion in U.S. public schools
[ 3 minutes to read] A growing number of nonreligious students in the United States are organizing to defend their right…
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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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Trump targets Soros and left-wing nonprofits in sweeping crackdown
[ 5 minutes to read] Donald Trump’s administration is preparing a broader campaign against nonprofit organizations that it accuses of financing…
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The Taliban wants American investment: Will it get it?
[ 5 minutes to read] Five years after returning to power in Afghanistan, the Taliban has an unexpected message for the…
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Germany is working with the Taliban to deport Afghans. Pragmatism or normalization?
[ 5 minutes to read] Germany does not recognize the Taliban as Afghanistan’s legitimate government. Yet Taliban representatives are now in…
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Trump’s attempt to deport pro-Palestinian students for their speech suffers a major court defeat
[ 4 minutes to read] The Trump administration wanted to use immigration law against international students who criticized Israel or publicly…
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The Fish Under the Chair: Four Boys Are Dead, and We Need to Talk About Why
[ 5 minutes to read] Their names were Abdulfatah Mohammed, 15. Yusuf Nuhu, 16. Buhari Iliyasu, 14. Ibrahim Muhammad, 22. On…
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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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Where did belief in God decline? And the sad news: The 21st century will still be a century of religion
[ 6 minutes to read] For anyone expecting religion simply to disappear as education, science and technology advance, the first decades…
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Catholic abuse survivors get a point system for their trauma
[ 4 minutes to read] Imagine being sexually abused as a child by someone representing one of the world’s most powerful…
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Nearly 3,000 people publicly flogged under Taliban rule
[ 5 minutes to read] Public flogging sounds like something from another century. In Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, however, it is happening in…
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Should priests be allowed to keep child abuse secret?
[ 8 minutes to read] Imagine a man enters a church, sits across from a priest and admits that he has…
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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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The world is normalizing the Taliban. Half of surveyed Afghan women barely leave home
[ 9 minutes to read] Five years ago, the Taliban marched back into Kabul. Governments condemned them. Western politicians promised that…
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Don’t want to die from a drug overdose? Pay for it in Latin American jails
[ 11 minutes to read] Latin America suffers from some of the world’s most serious problems with homicide, organized crime, extortion…
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God didn’t say that. Neither did your pastor. AI did
[ 10 minutes to read] Imagine scrolling through social media one evening when your pastor appears on the screen. His face…
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Nigeria’s Muslims and Christians agree on something: Stop dividing us
[ 8 minutes to read] Nigeria is often described through its divisions. Muslim north and Christian south, Hausa and Fulani, farmer…
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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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We are not racist, but the dead professor was black
[ 5 minutes to read] The death of Professor Jason Arday has left British academia in a state of shock and…
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The situation in Afghanistan now: Five years under the Taliban
[ 16 minutes to read] Five years ago, on August 15, 2021, Taliban fighters entered Kabul. Afghanistan’s Western-backed government collapsed with…
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Is “misogynistic” America ready for president AOC?
[ 9 minutes to read] Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has spent much of her political career being treated as simultaneously too young, too…
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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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Nigeria Has Banned Street Begging in Almajiri Schools. We Have Heard This Before
[ 5 minutes to read] This month, the Federal Government unveiled what it is calling a comprehensive reform of Nigeria’s Almajiri…
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Tech Bros: One algorithm elects president
[ 7 minutes to read] “Today, an oligarchy is taking shape in America of extreme wealth, power and influence that literally…
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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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Ceuta: Dehumanizing refugees and shooting them is not enough
[ 4 minutes to read] The debate surrounding Ceuta has become about far more than border security. It has exposed a…
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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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Cruel bank robbery vs. financial crimes
[ 4 minutes to read] When masked robbers storm into a bank with weapons, the event dominates headlines for days. Television…
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Freethinkers in conservative political climates
[ 5 minutes to read] It is easy to be a freethinker in an environment where skepticism, scientific inquiry, and open…
