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When Protection Becomes Threat: Introducing The Fall of the Guardians

  • byBehnam Raeesian
What happens when our guardians begin to embody control, silence, and coercion?
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Celebrating 250 years of the USA with its true, or at least its best, face. 'The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind.' Thomas Paine, Common Sense (1776).
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Create a Legacy of Freethought

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How you can ensure that the Freethinker survives and thrives for another 145 years.
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America the Radical: Some Fifth of July Reflections

  • byDaniel James Sharp
A day late and a dollar short, as the old saying goes. Yes, it is the fifth, rather…
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I Was Incarcerated for 10 Hours for Attending Aurat March on International Women’s Day

  • byAleah Faisal
A high school student’s tale of feminist resistance in Pakistan.
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How humanism became the new driver of futurism

  • bySamuel McKee
It might seem strange to some, but in the earliest days of the Royal Society, everyone was at…
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Thirty years of fighting for secularism in the UK: interview with Keith Porteous Wood

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The original version of this interview was conducted by Helen Nicholls of the National Secular Society (NSS) and…
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Baroness Finlay, Danny Kruger, and the Defeat of the Leadbeater Assisted Dying Bill

  • byColin Brewer
In 1978, after I had written several articles for medical journals in favour of what was then called…
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Reform UK and the weaponisation of council prayers

  • byMegan Manson
At least three Reform-controlled councils have imposed prayers on meetings. Megan Manson says this reflects a Christian nationalist agenda which threatens our country's most treasured values.
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