Politics & Conflict

Breakthroughs: New rights for renters

Each issue, we highlight a reason to be cheerful in our "Breakthroughs" column. This time, it's the Renters' Rights Act

Jason Burke's history of "the extremists who hijacked the 1970s" is a rollicking tale – but also a cautionary fable

Authors Joe Freeman and Aung Naing Soe explore why poetry is such a powerful political force in Myanmar

We asked people standing up for free thought and reason around the world how to defend the truth

Online influencers are using religion to give misogyny a virtuous veneer

We talk to historian David Olusoga about revisiting the story of the Empire, religion in Britain – and why logic gets you nowhere on "The Traitors"

The former prime minister of New Zealand tells the human story of national leadership

Meet the religious conservatives, bankrolled by the US, attacking British rights and access to abortion

A new book features work by student writers and translators in Gaza

Two memoirs, from Basra and Ukraine, chronicle the lives of ordinary men pulled into war