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18 Jul

Why the British accepted evolutionary science and Americans didn’t

18/07/2025
By Edward White
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One hundred years after a Tennessee teacher named John Scopes started a legal battle over what the state’s schools can teach children, ...

11 Jul

Ethics & Religion

What is the ‘Seven Mountains Mandate’ and how is it linked to political extremism?

11/07/2025
By Art Jipson
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Vance Boelter, who allegedly shot Melissa Hortman, a Democratic Minnesota state representative, and her husband, Mark Hortman, o...

04 Jul

History

A century on from Scopes trial, America’s culture war over evolution and creationism rages on

The 1925 Scopes trial, in which a Dayton, Tennessee, teacher was charged with violating state law by teaching biological evoluti...

30 Apr

Law & Politics

Staying woke

There is a war on the word ‘woke’. It is now used in a derogatory way to dismiss concerns about lack of social justice. Yet, it is a si...

25 Feb

Law & Politics

As Christian nationalism’s new figurehead, Trump inspires Australia’s extremes

The first days of Trump’s second presidency have passed with a flurry of tariff standoffs and literal turf wars with Greenland, ...

22 Feb

Law & Politics

Three reasons why Australia is unlikely to follow Trump’s anti-trans campaign

22/02/2025
By Paula Gerber
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Many people’s heads are spinning at the rapid rate that Donald Trump has been signing executive orders since becoming president – 70 in...

14 Feb

Law & Politics

The ‘Musk-eteer’ dismantling America

14/02/2025
By Paul Monk
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Elon Musk has been a shooting star. His ambitions and his energy have been awe-inspiring to observe, from banking to electric cars to s...

17 Jan

Science & Health

How too much security threatens the era of global science collaboration

17/01/2025
By Caroline Wagner
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Amid heightened tensions between the United States and China, the two countries signed a bilateral science and technology agreement

02 Jan

Feature series

Kingdom coming

09/01/2025
By Brian McKinlay
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This article is part of our ‘Timeless Pieces’ series of summer reading, featuring articles from our former hardcopy Australian Rational...

12 Nov

Law & Politics

The white God problem in politics

As ‘ex-vangelicals’ around the world deconstruct the faith of their formative years, one topic repeatedly comes up – that of white GOP ...

10 Oct

Law & Politics

It’s time to take a stand against far-right politics

10/10/2024
By Matthe Sharpe
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Political operatives on the far right have long spoken about their ambition to shift the “Overton window”. The aim is to ...

11 Aug

Feature series, Law & Politics

Sotomayor’s dissent and the future of a republic

11/08/2024
By Paul Monk
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This article is part of our ‘Mulling over America’ feature series, with contributors providing Rationalist perspectives on what ...

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