As conflict wracks the globe, two exhibitions - "The Family of Man" and "Children's Games" - offer a powerful vision of our ...

How should we navigate existential questions in our increasingly secular society? We asked six people for their perspectives ...

As the singer releases her sixth solo album Mayhem, let’s celebrate her as a champion of queerness, reinvention and ...

In his new book, Jonathan Sumption explores the different components – legal, institutional and cultural – that allow ...

Bangladesh’s student revolution unleashed chaos and sectarian violence. Can the coming elections renew its democracy?

When people used to ask me, “Do you ski?” I always thought it was the same as asking, “Do you fly the trapeze?” or “Do you perform skull surgery?” Of course I didn’t. I never knew much about skiing ...

Selma Dabbagh is a British-Palestinian writer and lawyer, based in London. Her fiction is mainly set in the contemporary Middle East and has been nominated for major awards. There’s a lot of reportage ...

Nick Fish is a civil rights activist and president of American Atheists, an NGO which fights for the civil liberties of atheists and for the total separation of government and religion. He spoke to us ...