The Silver Lining to the Populist Cloud
The populist cloud which has descended lately has one silver lining. People are starting to really engage with the political process.
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An Interview with Alida Tomas – Founding Producer, Eighty Wings Productions
Alida Tomas founded Eighty Wings Productions. She is a comedian, commentator, and producer. Here she talks to Conatus News about some of her work.
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An Interview with Viana Eriksson – President of the Cyprus Humanist Association
To begin with, tell us a few things about the Cyprus Humanist Association. The Cyprus Humanist Association (CHA) is a newly founded organisation which promotes humanism, a secular state, equal human rights and equal treatment of everyone regardless of religion or belief. The Association formed in 2015. For about two years, we have been working […]
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How Should We Judge Ayaan Hirsi Ali?
Irrespective of whether you agree or disagree with Ayaan Hirsi Ali, she has lived and experienced a world that her critics, by and large, have not.
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Unfortunately 100 is Small Pickings for Ramzan Kadyrov
LGBT activist groups and human rights watch organisations are uncovering the systematic targeting of homosexual men in Chechnya. Distressingly, there are reports of prison camps in which gay men are being murdered. Chechnya’s current leader, Kadyrov, has made a number of statements that could be interpreted as either utterly delusional, or duplicitous and poorly calculated. […]
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An Interview with Robert Ray, President of the Humanists of North Puget Sound
"Empathy, reason, and the ability to learn from experiences are all necessary to work with others. Religious dogma...was created to control others."
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Palm Sunday Massacre: Egypt’s Coptic Christians are Endangered
The Palm Sunday massacres in Egypt killed at least 44 people and left over 100 wounded. The international community must do more to help.
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An Interview with Ron Millar – PAC Coordinator for the Center for Freethought Equality
Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What’s your own story? How did you get into the Freethought Equality business? Was there much of a family background? My family has no history in atheist and humanist politics. I was raised in a fundamentalist Christian church and enjoyed interacting with many of the people there, but their narrow view of […]
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Hypocrisy: The Left Needs to Rebuild Trust
The current obsession with hypocrisy has special significance for the Left. Evolutionary psychology and Moral Foundations Theory shed light on this.
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Online Hate Speech and Sexual Threats- How Women can Fight Back
One of my closest friends is outspoken, beautiful, intelligent and political. Like a lot of women who engage in activism online, she receives a fair amount of sexist abuse, threats and harassment. So when she asked me how I deal with the hatred I also often receive, I had to think pretty hard before giving […]
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