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Human rights and justice

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Human rights and justice

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Public toilets are vanishing and that’s a civic catastrophe

New research shows it is a nightmare for all of us, but especially for people with health issues and marginalised groups

by Guido Corradi

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Civic life

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Ralph Waldo Emerson would really hate your Twitter feed

For Ralph Waldo Emerson, political activism was full of empty gestures done in bad faith. Abolition called for true heroism

by Peter Wirzbicki

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Civic life

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The origin story of a slogan, ‘the personal is political’

What the radical-feminist origins of the slogan ‘the personal is political’ can tell us about language in our own divided age

by Guy Stevenson

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Sex and sexuality

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The new genomics of sexuality moves us beyond ‘born this way’

The new genomics of sexuality reflects a social and political reality that has moved beyond ‘born this way’ and the ‘gay gene’

by Joanna Wuest

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Hallucinations and delusions

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Philosophy can help us connect, even in the face of psychosis

How phenomenological tools can help foster a relationship of true listening between clinicians and people with psychosis

by Rosa Ritunnano & Kasim Qureshi

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Social history

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The rise of the bystander as a complicit historical actor

‘The appalling silence of the good people’: how the bystander rose to prominence as a morally complicit actor in history

by Dennis Klein

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History of emotions

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The language of love in a 12th-century English law book

What a 12th-century English law book tells us about the social power of love and friendship in the Middle Ages – and today

by Meghan Woolley

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Habits and routines

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Prison life puts the ‘time work’ we all do into sharp relief

Trapped in an ocean of time, prisoners exemplify the human impulse to take temporal experience into our own hands

by Michael G Flaherty