Is there a way back from sectarianism in Iraq?
Dictatorship, invasion and war have placed Iraq’s religious and atheist minorities under mortal threat.
Politics & Conflict
Why the science fiction of my youth is disturbing me again
As our politics retreats from rationality, we must avoid complacency.
A neverending sentence
Britain’s approach to incarceration is coming under scrutiny. How did we get into this mess?
What is the best way to tackle terrorism?
The controversy over Sara Khan's appointment as counter-extremism commissioner distracts from more fundamental questions.
In a word: referendum
Michael Rosen's column on language and its uses.
“The women of the past have traditionally been caricatured”
Q&A with Jane Robinson, author of "Hearts and Minds:The Untold Story of the Great Pilgrimage and How Women Won the Vote".
Who made the alt-right?
The emergence of a reactionary political current from the darkest corners of the internet provokes difficult questions about free speech.
Book review: The End of Europe
Are we reaching the end of the post-World War II era in which Europe represented prosperity, peace and consensual problem-solving?
If women ruled the world
The Mosuo, a culturally isolated community in south-western China, are as close as we can get to a matriarchal society.
Apocalyptic populism
From Donald Trump to Brexit, the establishment is under fierce attack. But political populism is not simply a challenge to the neoliberal order – it is a product of it.