As fake news accelerates, we need to teach our children how to think critically. Finnish schools are leading the charge ...

The story covers one day in the life of 29-year-old Hedda Tesman (née Gabler), a famously untameable beauty who has recently returned home after an extended honeymoon with her dull academic husband, ...

From the rise of AI to attacks on universities, are we all getting dumber? Or is society transforming and discovering new ...

Trump’s decision to slash the federal science budget is hitting hard in the US. There are worries that the cuts to LIGO – the ...

“Do you know what it’s like to live in a tent during Gaza’s summer?” Wissam Yousef is asking the world beyond Palestine’s ...

Shortly after the last US election – of whose outcome I had felt so certain, and had been so wrong – came a moment of personal crisis. I had thought the obvious next step of progress would be backward ...

An 1891 illustration of a scandal in France: a mayor and his mistress were accused of dumping a foetus at sea. Credit: Alamy Abortion: A History (Hurst Publishers) by Mary Fissell There is a common ...

The vast domain of space is easy to ignore. It’s up there, invisible, while our headlines focus on billionaire rocket launches. But every single one of us has a vested interest. We need to act to ...

Robert Prevost's election as Pope brought hope to reformers. But will he push for peace and resist ultra-conservative influence? Pope Leo XIV visits the Basilica of St Paul Outside the Walls in Rome.

The Autumn 2025 issue of New Humanist is on sale now! This issue is all about how the battle over space – playing out unseen above us – concerns us all. In the latest edition of our "Voices" section, ...

Greg Graffin co-founded the band Bad Religion in Los Angeles in 1980, when he was 17. Their 1994 album “Stranger Than Fiction” sold more than half a million copies in the US, popularising their potent ...