What Silvio Berlusconi tells us about “post-truth” politics
Donald Trump’s populism has a striking precedent. So what can we learn from the Berlusconi era?
Politics & Conflict
The Rojava experiment
Behind the frontlines in Syria, a self-governing Kurdish region is making a radical attempt at gender equality.
A politics of humanism can help build a just, free and more equal world
Intolerance and bigotry are in the ascendant. Owen Jones surveys the challenges ahead.
Age of extremes: the spring 2017 New Humanist
Out now - a special edition on democracy and its discontents.
The brink of Armageddon
London’s secret network of underground tunnels provide a physical history of the nuclear war that never was.
Does the left have an anti-Semitism problem?
Jeremy Corbyn’s ascent to the Labour leadership has placed bitter arguments about Israel and anti-Semitism in the spotlight.
The road to sedition
Controversy over a student protest in India has exposed the dangerous rise of nationalism in the world’s largest democracy.
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‘‘Turkey has never exactly been a heaven for writers, but they always existed’’
Q&A: Ece Temelkuran's new book tries to explain Turkey's current turmoil to a global audience.
A new threat to free choice: how anti-abortion protesters got organised
Anti-abortion campaigners are becoming more vocal in the UK, helped along by tactics borrowed from America’s religious right.
What’s next for the US Supreme Court?
Amid the turmoil of US politics, could the Supreme Court resume its role as the defender of American liberalism?