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

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

It’s been a month or two since we got back. Out dog walking, I bumped into one of my neighbours who had been on the trip.

As white Christian nationalists seek to reshape the United States, we hear from the frontlines of the resistance ...

This piece accompanies Marcus Chown's feature on the discovery of cosmic background radiation, from the Spring 2015 edition of New Humanist. Perhaps the most famous accidental discovery of all is ...

Drag: A British History (University of California Press) by Jacob Bloomfield It’s tempting to open this review by saying that drag – and particularly women’s clothing worn by men on stage for ...

In the early 1970s, I was a pupil at a Protestant primary school in working-class west Belfast. Considering the mayhem that was raging nearby – the rioting, bombings and shootings – the teachers did a ...

This article is a preview from the Winter 2017 edition of New Humanist. How many of us haven’t in some idle moment imagined what the world might be like if it had always been run by women? Not that ...

My country, the United States, is quite religious, making it an outlier within the developed world. Generally, in nations where wealth and prosperity increase, piety decreases, but we Americans ...

For many generations in societies shaped by Christianity, monogamy has been the almost undisputed champion of relationship norms. In Britain and the US, it has been held up as the dominant – really ...