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  • Fifty years of solitude

    Half a century after the revolution, is Cuba turning to new gods? Roger Davidson reports from Havana

  • Deep trouble

    Will Turkey take the Yugoslavia option? Kerem Oktem on a country caught between Islam and ultra-nationalism

  • Zero confidence

    Banks collapsing, homes repossessed, jobs disappearing . . . no wonder the world is in despair. Steven Lukes turns to Durkheim to make sense of the real depression

  • God's Executioner by Micheál Ó Siochrú

    Stephen Howe on a new history of Cromwell's Irish adventure

  • Speak up

    Why do women screech when men shout? Sally Feldman explores the sexual politics of the voice

  • Unmasked

    Paul Sims finds out what’s behind the anarchic anti-cult group Anonymous

  • Fathers under fire

    Elizabeth Wilson on the new scapegoats

  • Faith healers

    Peace through religious understanding is an admirable goal, argues Edna Fernandes. But who should be paying for it?

  • Sex appeal

    America’s Religious Right has devised a seductive new recruitment strategy, reveals Dagmar Herzog

  • Backlash

    A simple suggestion that MPs leave their religious views outside Parliament turned me into a hate figure for Labour Party Catholics, says Mary Honeyball