But Scotland has, in recent years, written itself a new story in which Scottish people are generally welcoming to the outside ...

But these days, while metal at its best still sounds delightfully evil, the metal culture is pushing back against the truly ...

When we discovered the regulators were only testing a few spots on the river a few times a year, we set up a citizen science project, training locals to test the water quality near them on a weekly ...

Angus Reid's new documentary "A week in the Sun" shines light on Cuba's sweeping new rights for women and queer people ...

During riots outside the Bell Hotel in Epping, in response to news that an Ethiopian asylum seeker, Hadush Kebatu, was arrested for the sexual assault of a 14-year-old girl, a group of women appeared.

In 1786, Sir William Jones, a British philologist and judge, made the remarkable discovery that the ancient Indian language Sanskrit resembled Latin and Greek, “bearing to both of them a stronger ...

“Humanism” in the modern sense was fleshed out as a worldview in the 20th century, although its roots go deeper. The idea originated in a desire to find a philosophical approach to life that would ...

Rowan Williams (left) is a Welsh Anglican bishop, theologian and poet who was Archbishop of Canterbury from 2002–2012. Andrew Copson (right) is a humanist leader and author. He is chief executive of ...

On 5 October, a month before the US presidential election, Elon Musk bounced onto the stage at a Donald Trump rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. Wearing a “Make America Great Again” hat and a T-shirt ...

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 ...

On paper, Buddhism looks pretty good. It has a philosophical subtlety married to a stated devotion to tolerance that makes it stand out amongst the world religions as uniquely not awful. Even ...