Coerced faith: the battle against forced conversions in Pakistan’s Dalit community
In Pakistan's Sindh province, young girls from religious minorities are being abducted, forcibly converted to Islam and married to their abductors. Investigation by journalist Shaukat Korai.
Image of the week: Anaxagoras
A Greek philosopher who was banished from Athens in the fifth century BC for claiming that the sun and moon were not gods.
The Freethinker and early republicanism: from the archive
The letter by Albert E. Standley that led to the formation of Republic, first published in the Freethinker, December 1982.
Bring on the British Republic – Graham Smith’s ‘Abolish the Monarchy’, reviewed
'Our monarchs seem to have spent more time secretly lobbying for tax exemptions than standing up for liberty.'
How laïcité can save secularism
How French-style laïcité 'treats religion like any other ideology', and why it is arguably the only effective form of secularism.