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Bad reasoning about hard choices

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Lessons from a global healthquake

Abortion: no right to choose for nurses, no choice for mothers

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After ‘effective altruism’

International Women’s Day: marking the unremarkable woman – or disappearing her?

Panic in the supermarket

Is Elizabeth Warren a closet Pro-lifer? Did that do her campaign in?

Misleading myths of feminism ignore the human heart

After Weinstein, the rules of intimacy come full circle

Dry ice and indoor pools don’t mix

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Is the coronavirus epidemic increasing forced organ harvesting in China?

Why Louisiana’s abortion clinic bill protects women’s health

Ain’t no AI in heaven

‘Trust me, I’m a landlord’

Whither populism?

Count your blessings. If you catch coronavirus, you still missed out on bubonic plague

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The fall of a spiritual giant

Twitter piles on Richard Dawkins over eugenics tweet

How vulnerable is Xi Jinping over coronavirus?

The hidden scourge of modern slavery

In defence of Peter Singer

Ireland is moving inexorably to the Left

Listen carefully

If you’re on the internet, your privacy is at risk. And whose isn’t?

Caging Leviathan

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2020: The Year of the Nurse and Midwife

Mayor Pete’s rainbow values

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