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'Serbia's Iron Lady' unrepentant for war crimes, plus how humans read faces
Biljana Plavšić became the only woman convicted for mass atrocities in the Bosnian War. Still alive, in her 90s, a Bosnian-Australian law professor m...
Saving the Sepik and remembering the Soweto uprising
When a proposed mine threatens Papua New Guinea’s Sepik River, the Sepik people resist the mine on their own terms, but will they succeed? And fifty y...
Ian Dunt's UK, America's 'masculinist' movement, and could Switzerland cap its population?
Ian Dunt on the continued fallout over the death of 18 year old Southampton University student Henry Nowak. In the US, a radical movement known as ‘ma...
Sagrada Familia finished and why people still love Spam
Against the odds, the exterior of Antoni Gaudi's extraordinary Sagrada Familia Basilica in Barcelona is finished, and Pope Leo will bless the newly co...
How Australia changed course on drug policy, and the forgotten boat people of East Timor
Teenage vaping, pill testing, injecting rooms, medicinal cannabis and the opioid crisis: a look at Australia's efforts to manage illicit drug use. And...
Is Muskism the new Fordism? Plus, the maverick psychiatrist who studied life after death
Elon Musk looks set to become the world's first trillionaire when his company SpaceX goes public on the stock exchange. A new book asks if we're livin...
Bruce Shapiro's USA, Ethiopian runners' secret to success and a Glasgow immigration protest gives hope
Bruce Shapiro looks at the Republican backlash to Donald Trump's so-called IRS slush fund. How Ethiopian runners win over performance enhanced athlete...
Mark Kenny's Canberra, Syrians return home and Lord Howe Island cockroaches
A new poll published in the Australian Financial Review has Pauline Hanson's One Nation ahead of Labor and the Coalition on primary vote, and Mark Ken...
When America admired Iran, plus what are conservative environmentalists fighting for?
Historian and author John Ghazvinian argues that the past fifty years of hostility between the U.S. and Iran are an exception in a much longer relatio...
Reckoning with war crimes, plus the women at the Nuremburg trials
Veteran war correspondent Janine di Giovanni has set up a project that trains journalists and researchers to gather evidence that can be used to prose...
Ian Dunt's UK, Spain's defiant PM, and Pavlova's tour of Oz
Ian Dunt surveys the unfathomable political turmoil in the United Kingdom, as a monumental by-election looms for Andy Burnham, the key Labour rival of...
Anna Henderson's Canberra, Bhaskar Sunkara on the Left in America, plus why ancient Roman gossip mattered
Anna Henderson looks at how likely it is that independents like the Teals could form a new centrist party. Does the success of New York City mayor Zo...
Satayjit Das on the Iran war fall-out and Tareq Baconi on being a gay Palestinian Hamas expert
Global financial analyst Satyajit Das looks at how the double whammy of Trump's economic warfare and the war on Iran is playing out here and around th...
Bruce Shapiro's USA, John Safran on when offending goes too far and was Blind Freddy real?
Bruce Shapiro looks at the Republicans' shaping of South Carolina's congressional districts, in an effort to win the November mid-terms. John Safran's...
Anna Henderson's Canberra, and translating Shakespeare
Anna Henderson looks at why the government remains unpopular despite popular support for changes to negative gearing and capital gains tax in the budg...
How royal commissions make a difference, plus cuisine in conflict zones
There have been 141 royal commissions in Australia since Federation, but not all of them have brought about meaningful policy change. Plus, a new book...
Ian Dunt on Starmer's demise, Antoinette Lattouf on women who win, plus 50 years of Australian film at Cannes
Ian Dunt on the political demise of Keir Starmer: even if he hasn't yet resigned, Ian says, he's already dead. How Antoinette Lattouf found inspiratio...
Australia's first political assassination, plus the man who led Japan into war
Journalist Debbie Whitmont revisits the 1994 murder of John Newman MP - a crime billed as Australia's first political assassination - and the man stil...
Anna Henderson's Canberra, six months in a submarine and the ethics of crisis reporting
Anna Henderson looks at One Nation's victory in the Farrer by-election. What does the result say about the growing frustration with the major parties?...
Fintan O'Toole on Trump's brand of 'crazy,' plus how to escape the Taliban
Acclaimed journalist and author, Fintan O'Toole argues Trump’s political power lies in projecting the “right amount of crazy”. Plus how to help an Afg...
Netanyahu faces a new opposition party, plus the lives of those liberated from the Nazi camp Bergen-Belsen
The Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu may come up against a rightwing-centrist super coalition in elections later this year, after two of his...
Bruce Shapiro's USA, why community radio matters, and an historic Pitcairn Island document returned
Our regular US commentator looks at recent political attempts to use defamation law to silence American media. 2SER, a Sydney community radio station...
Anna Henderson's Canberra, Kim Jong Un's comeback and classical marble statues - in colour
Anna Henderson on the Japanese PM's visit and the tragedy of Kumanjayi Little Baby's death in Alice Springs. Plus 2020 wasn’t a good year for North Ko...
Ian Dunt on the King's speech to Congress, plus the scandalous life of Dick Meagher
Ian Dunt looks at King Charles' address to US Congress and the subtle anti-Trump messages within it. Plus, a new biography details the life of Richard...
Pakistan the negotiator, and reporting mass shootings
Why is Pakistan the new deal broker in the US-Iran war? And what do cryptocurrency and critical minerals deals have to do with their new-found role? A...
How war fired up indigenous soldiers, and Japanese espionage - fact or fiction?
Indigenous soldiers who fought in WW felt betrayed when they returned, then formed the first radical Aboriginal political organisation. And, before th...
Who are the British elite today? And a tribute to David Malouf
How the British elite see themselves is not what the data reveals. An historian of medicine, who's mother had polio, is revisiting the experiences of...
NZ PM's leadership struggle, and the Weintraubs Syncopaters' sad end
New Zealand PM Christopher Luxon survives a no confidence vote, but how long can he hang on to the leadership? Plus why the Musician's Union of Austra...
Bruce Shapiro's USA, Chernobyl's wildlife thriving and the great convict escape on the Catalpa
Trump contemplates his next move on Iran as the ceasefire deadline looms, while at home his administration is dealing with yet more scandal, this time...
Anna Henderson's Canberra, how best to commemorate war, plus Lake Eyre tourists need fuel
Our regular Canberra correspondent on the latest polling, and Independent David Pocock's new focus on taxing gas. Historian Peter Stanley argues for a...
A Jewish Australian lawyer reckons with state violence. Plus, can corporate scandals be good for the world?
The Melbourne legal scholar Marika Sosnowski spent many years researching violence and the law in Syria. Now she reckons with her own family's proximi...
Ian Dunt's UK, the Colombo plan, and AI publishing scams
Ian Dunt examines what Viktor Orban's loss in Hungary means for the EU and looks at questions around Donald Trump's mental capacity. There once was a...
Jon Lee Anderson on Trump's stranglehold over Cuba, and other maritime chokepoints before the Strait of Hormuz
Cuba's leader is defiant in the face of the country's worst humanitarian crisis in decades, while President Trump hints at inflicting more pain. And t...
Australia's fuel import dependency, gay conservatives backing Trump, plus damaged treasures in Iran
Professor Mark Kenny reflects on Australia's record fuel price hike and the Australian government's unfolding response. We meet the Log Cabin Republic...
America’s arts in freefall under Donald Trump and Daniel Defoe's secret life before he wrote Robinson Crusoe
Pulitzer prize-winning art critic Sebastian Smee, recently laid off by Jeff Bezos's Washington Post, looks at the state of the arts in Trump's America...
Bruce Shapiro's USA, antibiotic resistance in India, plus Marralwanga's bark paintings
Bruce Shaprio on the US President's latest ultimatum for Iran. Prof.Assa Doron reveals how India has become the global epicentre for the world's anti...
Robert Reich's America and ten years since the release of the Panama papers
In his new memoir, Former Secretary of Labor under Bill Clinton, Robert Reich, traces how the Democrats lost the working class and paved the way for D...
Ian Dunt's UK, and the Shahs and Ayatollahs of Iran
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer announces his plan to address fuel prices. And 'The Shah's party, and the Iranian revolution that followed'. Bob Temple...
Western Australia's GST wins, Israel death penalty for West Bank, and mapping the wilderness
The only Australian state with a budget surplus will get an extra $6.6 billion from Australian taxpayers in the coming financial year, under its speci...
Anna Henderson's Canberra, Ash Sarkar critques the modern Left, and should daylight savings be permanent?
The Australian government will halve the fuel excise for three months, as the energy crisis triggered by the Iran war looks set to drag on. UK journal...