Women, life, freedom
The mass protests in Iran are a call for freedom and dignity. Sanctions on the morality police are not enough.
Human Rights & Ethics
Flying spaghetti monsters
Pastafarians are helping to expose the relationship between religion and the state, with surprisingly serious results
Book review: Outrageous
A new popular history of Section 28 and the struggle in Britain for LGBT rights is enlightening and surprisingly funny.
Persecuting pregnancy
The overturning of Roe vs Wade in the United States has created perverse new rights and incentives
India’s new Emergency
The jailing of fact-checker Mohammed Zubair was the latest in an ongoing assault on free speech in India.
Will Russian war criminals be brought to justice?
Russian combatants are already being sentenced in Ukraine, but justice for the alleged war crimes being recorded requires an immense international effort.
The duty of those who are free
Writing from behind bars as a political prisoner in Egypt, Alaa Abd El-Fattah asks us to take action.
Is monogamy morally wrong?
Celebrated as the ideal form of romance, a growing cadre of philosophers argue that monogamy is actually unethical.
“Deep Deception” and policing without consent
Five women deceived by undercover cops, who they believed to be their partners, have published their stories in a new book.
Will the killing of a schoolteacher have any effect on Pakistan’s blasphemy laws?
The murder of a teacher accused of blasphemy at an all-girls religious school is the latest in a long line of vigilante attacks.