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In early 2025, well before the release of the new “report”, Vice President JD Vance made the agenda transparent. He attacked ...

Without female doctors, women in Afghanistan are being denied medical care – as the recent earthquake made painfully clear ...

Most of those attending the unveiling were grey-haired now; many had come in velvet and glittery outfits. Two women in their ...

As fake news accelerates, we need to teach our children how to think critically. Finnish schools are leading the charge ...

The vast domain of space is easy to ignore. It’s up there, invisible, while our headlines focus on billionaire rocket launches. But every single one of us has a vested interest. We need to act to ...

Dickens's short story electrified Victorian Britain. But it was a secularist tale, and its subversive qualities have been forgotten. 'Marley's Ghost. Ebenezer Scrooge visited by a ghost.' (Flickr / ...

This year is the 130th anniversary of the death of Charles Bradlaugh, Britain’s first openly atheist MP. Known by his opponents as the “bellowing blasphemer”, Bradlaugh repeatedly dominated the ...

This article is a preview from the Summer 2015 edition of New Humanist. You can find out more and subscribe here. Religious disbelief is viewed with alarm in most Arab countries. Two government ...

This article is a preview from the Summer 2015 edition of New Humanist. You can find out more and subscribe here. The Voyager I and II space probes were packed with music by Bach and pictures of the ...

This piece accompanies Marcus Chown's feature on the discovery of cosmic background radiation, from the Spring 2015 edition of New Humanist. Perhaps the most famous accidental discovery of all is ...

Buddhism is often seen as the acceptable face of religion, lacking a celestial dictator and full of Eastern wisdom. But Dale DeBakcsy, who worked for nine years in a Buddhist school, says it's time to ...