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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 ...

After 19 years as a self-proclaimed "extremist", Dan Barker renounced his faith – and he wants everyone to know about it. This article is a preview from the Summer 2016 edition of New Humanist. You ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

God: An Anatomy (Pan Macmillan) by Francesca Stavrakopoulou. We don’t know his real name. In early inscriptions it appears as Yhw, Yhwh, or simply Yh; but we don’t know how it was spoken. He has come ...

For many generations in societies shaped by Christianity, monogamy has been the almost undisputed champion of relationship norms. In Britain and the US, it has been held up as the dominant – really ...

This article is a preview from the Winter 2017 edition of New Humanist. How many of us haven’t in some idle moment imagined what the world might be like if it had always been run by women? Not that ...

This article is a preview from the Autumn 2016 edition of New Humanist. You can find out more and subscribe here. In a 2008 article in Wired magazine entitled “The End of Theory”, Chris Anderson ...

As Ernest Hemingway famously claimed, “All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.” In his latest novel, James, Percival Everett reimagines Twain’s ...