Editor’s Note: This article previously appeared in a different format as part of The Atlantic’s Notes section, retired in 2021. So far the consensus in the inbox is a resounding “no” to that question, ...
Flogging someone with a cane causes intense pain and permanent bodily damage. An Australian who was flogged for drug trafficking in Malaysia in the 1970s recalled that the cane “chewed hungrily ...
On 9th January 2015, in front of the Jeddah Mosque, a Saudi activist and blogger named Raif Badawi was publicly given the first fifty out of the thousand lashes he was sentenced with, for ‘insulting ...
Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio. Just so we’re clear: Parents should not spank children. And that ...