United States - Rationale Magazine

16 Apr

What happens when sacred and secular power collide?

Alarm over the war of words between President Donald Trump and Pope Leo XIV has escalated with remarkable speed, from The New York T...

15 Feb

Art, Humour & Poetry

MBJ’s view

See current affairs through the eyes of cartoonist Matt Bissett-Johnson. Published 15 February 2026.

21 Sep

Law & Politics

Political witch hunts and blacklists: The new era of McCarthyism

21/09/2025
By Shannon Brincat
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A modern-day political inquisition is unfolding in 'digital town squares' across the United States. The slain far-right activist Charli...

18 Jul

Science & Health

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...

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