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In New York, I found a sweltering city pushing back against Trump and his brutish ICE agents

culture

Maggie Gyllenhaal's "The Bride!" has been lauded as a feminist triumph. That's not what it looked like to me

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education & children

Two leading voices battle it out

faith & religion

The vice president displays neither self-awareness nor an understanding of irony in this strange book

human rights & ethics

Even in prison, Belarusian dissident women haven’t given up. The future of the country may still be in their hands

ideas

Professor Justin Smith-Ruiu on how magic mushrooms gave him a deeper understanding of ideas he’d studied for decades

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mind, body & life

The more you bring to this psychoanalytical book on desire in life, the more you'll get out of it

politics & conflict

The Alliance for Responsible Citizenship has become a forum for Christian nationalism in London

rationalism, atheism & humanism

How a humanist network of free-thinking intellectuals transformed Britain in the 20th century

science & technology

It took centuries for medicine to systematically privilege evidence over intuition – and other sectors still lag behind