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There’s growing evidence that animals have a sense of humour. Should this change how we see them? | Continue reading
All over Britain, shopping centres are closing down. Can these retail paradises be replaced by new public spaces? | Continue reading
Lok Rang Noor Art is breathing new life into the traditional dance of Giddha | Continue reading
A new book, "Educating in Faith", explores the rise and fall of English Catholic public schools | Continue reading
A Carnavalet Museum exhibition of objects from the French Revolution contains echoes of today's world | Continue reading
The presenter talks happiness, toxic masculinity and the benefits of doubt | Continue reading
We often discuss how strongmen rise to power. In "How Tyrants Fall", Marcel Dirsus looks at the other side of the story | Continue reading
Labour’s feud over child benefits points to a deeper question: how to balance strategy with doing the right thing | Continue reading
Narcissists seem to be all around us, but is this psychological disorder actually on the rise? | Continue reading
A tribute to the late Caspar Melville – writer, musicologist, and former editor of New Humanist. | Continue reading
Danny Sriskandarajah, author of "Power to the People", talks to us about how to revive Britain's democracy | Continue reading
Opposing ideas about antisemitism threaten to split the anti-racist movement. A new book seeks to bridge the divides | Continue reading
The "Electric Dreams" exhibition at the Tate illuminates our changing relationship with the virtual world | Continue reading
President Milei has slashed inflation, while railroading rights and increasing poverty. Is his big bet worth the cost? | Continue reading
Human rights defender Mansour Omari on the search for justice after the fall of Assad | Continue reading
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A groundbreaking device extracts the "white gold" passively | Continue reading
A new study adds to the evidence that obesity isn't about will power | Continue reading
This posthumous collection of writings serves as a personal record of the atrocities experienced in Gaza | Continue reading
Democracy is under attack worldwide. From the prophets and televangelists guiding Trump to the divides that threaten the anti-racist movement, our new issue explores what's at stake and how we can fight back | Continue reading
Social media misinformation has real-world consequences | Continue reading
The failure to tackle abuse scandals has left the Church of England in crisis once more | Continue reading
To many evangelicals, Trump is not just a president but a messiah. How did he gain such mythic power, and where will it lead? | Continue reading
Michael Rosen's language column | Continue reading
Campaigners want assisted dying to be available to those who are suffering from intolerable physical conditions | Continue reading
Sometimes, a good guess is the key to scientific discovery | Continue reading
Cristina Rocha tells the story of how the the "cool" global megachurch Hillsong gained influence in Brazil | Continue reading
The Contemporary Poetry and Music Circle was hugely influential in the post-war years. Its legacy is finally being unearthed | Continue reading
This prequel to the Southern Reach trilogy breaks every rule – unsurprising for Jeff VanderMeer, the king of new weird fiction | Continue reading
In Brazil’s tropical wetlands, ecotourism has forged an uneasy truce between cattle farmers and their old enemies | Continue reading
Paul Seabright's new book describes how religions operate like businesses, competing for wealth and influence | Continue reading
From Soviet scientists to tech moguls, blood has been the subject of our wildest experiments | Continue reading
Women dating in their 50s and 60s is now normal and celebrated. Let's take a moment to appreciate how far we've come | Continue reading
A new tribute to our celestial neighbour blends science and history – to surprisingly poetic effect | Continue reading
We talk to the author of “This Is Not America” about race, freedom of expression, and what is at risk when Britain blindly emulates the US | Continue reading
Meet the older people fighting discrimination. They might teach the rest of us how to live a good life | Continue reading
As the Church pushes for harsher drug laws in Italy, a series of cases suggest that the priesthood is hiding a problem of its own | Continue reading
Catch up on our top stories of the year | Continue reading
Book review: Multitudes - How Crowds Made the Modern World, by Dan Hancox | Continue reading
On a recent night out, our columnist had a strange encounter with her younger self | Continue reading
The Burmese pro-democracy activist on what it will take to end the world's longest civil war | Continue reading
We talk to the renowned evolutionary biologist about "The Genetic Book of the Dead" and how we can read the history of life on Earth through modern genes | Continue reading
Brain-computer interfaces are already changing lives for people with disabilities, but the technology is overtaking the ethics | Continue reading
Michael Rosen explains the history of the word "war" | Continue reading
It's about human values, not Santa | Continue reading
Effective altruism has suffered a blow, but the extreme ideas surrounding it have infiltrated some of our most powerful organisations | Continue reading
Turkey has declared itself a defender of Palestine. But now the people are demanding action and the state is crushing dissent | Continue reading