10 terrible moral panics

From local estates to the school gates, scaremongering about asylum seekers has caused a dangerous rise in far-right sentiment

The etymology of a panic attack

Pressured by payment processors, games and their creators still struggle with adult material

We are living through an interregnum of sorts, stranded between different waves of feminism. The movement’s fourth was followed by backlash and rapid upheaval: in the United States, the first election

WITH MORE MULTIPLE MURDERERS PER CAPITA THAN ANY OTHER COUNTRY ON THE PLANET, THE US HAS EARNED A BLOODY REPUTATION AS GROUND ZERO FOR SERIAL KILLERS

From miasma to miracles: how medieval medicine desperately battled the bubonic plague