Politics & Conflict

The rise of Brazil’s Santo Daime religion

Ayahuasca and shamanic tourism were already controversial in Brazil, and now face an uncertain future under Bolsonaro.

This book of essays on how Hindu nationalism is changing India paints a worrying picture.

Millicent Fawcett is now honoured in Westminster, but what about the women who saw their fight as part of a wider struggle?

In the age of Trump and #MeToo comes a timely challenge to the idea that female anger is irrational.

In Derry, the peacewalls are still standing, and state papers still classified. What hope for peace in the age of Brexit?

Q&A with Joan Smith, author of "Homegrown: How Domestic Violence turns Men into Terrorists".

With Boko Haram’s brutality on one side, and military repression on the other, inhabitants of northern Nigeria took drastic steps.

Transcending its many divisions and tracing a fraught history, can the Beirut marathon bring the city together?

To counter the wave of misinformation and denial in political life, we urgently need to defend the concept of the public good.

Tunisia’s Islamist party Ennahdha is seeking to secure the gains of the 2011 uprising and adapt itself to secular democracy.