Anti-abortion groups have found a new way to deny women their rights, says Solana Larsen. And this time it's global
Why do we still tolerate the presence of bishops in the House of Lords? Jake Bromberg calls for their eviction
Buddhism is fatalistic, deeply misogynist and riven with superstition. And yet, argues Karen Connelly, it also inspires resistance to tyranny and the fight for freedom
Eliane Glaser challenges a core British value
Tony Blair helped bring the toxic certainties of religious belief back into politics and culture. Let's hope Gordon Brown doesn't do the same, says Caspar Melville
The apparently random patchwork of settlement in the occupied West Bank in fact reveals a deliberate plan of colonisation and control, reports Daniel Miller
The hidden art of the Third Reich, argues Roger Griffin, betrays uncomfortable links with more radical modernism
In the fledgling Stormont democracy, discovers Newton Emerson, some are more equal than others
Ahead of a critical election columnist Ahmet Altan warns that his country’s current political crisis could have fateful consequences for us all
Dominic Hilton on a 'timely satire' that is neither