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‘Project 2025 is about accelerating the demise of a functioning democracy’: interview with US Representative Jared Huffman

  • byDaniel James Sharp
  • 3 August 2024
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Introduction Jared Huffman is the Democratic representative for California’s 2nd congressional district and the only open non-believer in…
wilders
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IInternational

Geert Wilders, Europe, and the threat of Islamism

  • byPaul Cliteur
  • 4 May 2024
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In the Netherlands, House of Representatives elections were held on 22 November 2023. This turned out to be…
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FFreethought around the world

A French freethinker: Emile Chartier, known as Alain

  • byMichel Petheram
  • 27 March 2024
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‘Thought is free, or it isn’t thought.'
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SSecularism & Humanism

How laïcité can save secularism

  • byKunwar Khuldune Shahid
  • 1 June 2023
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How French-style laïcité 'treats religion like any other ideology', and why it is arguably the only effective form of secularism.
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Assisted dying: will the final freedom be legalised in France?

  • byJean-Luc Romero-Michel
  • 6 December 2022
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La fin de vie: enfin une loi d’ultime liberté en France? France's progress towards legalising assisted dying, by Jean-Luc Romero-Michel, Honorary President of the Association for the Right to Die with Dignity. In English & en français.
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Pétain, Vichy France and the Catholic Church

  • byKeith Porteous Wood
  • 26 August 2022
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The troubled history of the Catholic Church's support for Hitler's puppet regime in occupied France, and the effects that are still being felt in the country today.
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