Raif Badawi in 2012 © Ensaf Haidar Human rights abuses may not be uncommon in Saudi Arabia, but the cruelty of Raif Badawi's case has been front-page news in the west and sparked protests from...

Newcastle Crown Court, where a panel of experts will observe rape trials for the next six months © Mick Gallagher/Flickr Rape trials are, notoriously, one of the areas in which the justice system...

© David Jones/PA Wire/Press Association Images Defenders of Page 3—and there are many, many women among their ranks—tend to argue that true feminism supports the right of women to do whatever...

The mansion at Bletchley Park © ShaunArmstrong/mubsta.com There has been a recent fascination with Bletchley Park, the centre of Britain's codebreaking efforts during the Second World War. The...

The Birth of the Pill by Jonathan Eig (Macmillan, £20) Margaret Sanger was the 20th century’s greatest campaigner for birth control.  When contraception was still illegal in the US, the...

The Secret History of Wonder Woman by Jill Lepore (Scribe, £20) Read more of our books in brief “With the speed of Mercury and the strength of Hercules—she is known only as Wonder Woman,...

Cash still rules in the UK—but only just

Tzipi Livni, who voted against the bill, is interviewed at a press conference in 2009. Photo © Itzik Edri Next week, the Israeli parliament will vote on legislation that would define the country's...

Any ruling that accepted that this mother had committed a crime would be taking us into dangerous territory

Men Explain Things to Me and Other Essays by Rebecca Solnit (Granta, £12.99) “Mansplaining”: a tendency among some men to unnecessarily explain things to women, based on a mistaken assumption...