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Category: Society & Culture

1948
- Kenan Malik on race, culture and identity politics plus how timekeeping changed the world

Thu, 08 Jun 2023
1947
- Tensions over Taiwan, the rise of Islamist rule, and why it feels good to sulk

Wed, 07 Jun 2023
1946
- The history behind Kosovo-Serbia tensions and Wikipedia's gender problem

Tue, 06 Jun 2023
1945
- Laura Tingle's Canberra, why digital doesn't always trump paper, and putting the type into typography

Mon, 05 Jun 2023
1944
- The Martin Amis interview

Thu, 01 Jun 2023
1943
- Power plays in PNG, Hollywood writers fighting AI, and the art of blurbs

Wed, 31 May 2023
1942
- Big Tech and the global south, and the case for 'tragic' thinking

Tue, 30 May 2023
1941
- Laura Tingle's Canberra, Timor-Leste's future, and André Dao's powerful family history

Mon, 29 May 2023
1940
- How the KGB operates, and trees that learn and socialise

Thu, 25 May 2023
1939
- Regulating 'forever chemicals' and David Grann's shipwreck tale The Wager

Wed, 24 May 2023
1938
- Stan Grant exposes Australia's broken media landscape

Tue, 23 May 2023
1937
- One year of PM Albanese, love and inequality in China, and the trouble with human teeth

Mon, 22 May 2023
1936
- Too much yet too little: the phosphorus paradox

Thu, 18 May 2023
1935
- Indigenous update, Asia's G7 priorities and can anyone own culture?

Wed, 17 May 2023
1934
- US politics, South Africa's heroic journalists & why we should love flies

Tue, 16 May 2023
1933
- Amy Remeikis' Canberra, Afghanistan struggles under Talban rule and the 18th century AI chess hoax

Mon, 15 May 2023
1932
- An adventure down the Tigris River, and the life of writer Geoffrey Dutton

Thu, 11 May 2023
1931
- Bangladesh's looming carbon catastrophe and E Jean Carroll revisited

Wed, 10 May 2023
1930
- Ian Dunt's UK, unrest in Haiti and the curse of the Marquis de Sade

Tue, 09 May 2023
1929
- Laura Tingle's Canberra, Bob Carr on Assange and diplomacy, and weird and wonderful understandings of the alphabet

Mon, 08 May 2023
1928
- Ukrainian author Andrey Kurkov reflects on the war in Ukraine

Thu, 04 May 2023
1927
- Deep sea mining in the Pacific, and the life-saving potential of animals

Wed, 03 May 2023
1926
- David Frum's America, the ticking Doomsday Clock, and Australia's botanic gardens

Tue, 02 May 2023
1925
- Laura Tingle's Canberra, ten years after the Bangladesh factory collapse, and histories of the heart

Mon, 01 May 2023
1924
- Matriarchs and Patriarchs

Thu, 27 Apr 2023
1923
- Asia update, Shirley Shackleton's East Timor, and Italy's Cinecittà Studios

Wed, 26 Apr 2023
1922
- ANZAC special: Frontier fighters and the truth about East Timor

Tue, 25 Apr 2023
1921
- Laura Tingle's Canberra, the uprising of Dutch farmers, and 'fairy circles' in the Pilbara

Mon, 24 Apr 2023
1920
- Charles Glass reflects on his time in Syria

Thu, 20 Apr 2023
1919
- Indigenous update, famine in Africa, and the story of slime

Wed, 19 Apr 2023
1918
- Bruce Shapiro's America, NZ on AUKUS, the father of skyscrapers

Tue, 18 Apr 2023
1917
- Canberra politics, Uganda's new anti-LGBT bill, Australia's convict 'orphans'

Mon, 17 Apr 2023
1916
- The revolutionary women of the Whitlam era

Thu, 13 Apr 2023
1915
- Asia update, Maja Göpel is rethinking our world, behind Gould's birds

Wed, 12 Apr 2023
1914
- Easter special: Simon Sebag Montefiore on history's greatest dynasties

Mon, 10 Apr 2023
1913
- Ian Dunt's UK, Don Winslow vs Donald Trump and a tribute to two Bruces

Tue, 11 Apr 2023
1912
- The medieval manuscripts club and secret Soviet x-ray records

Thu, 06 Apr 2023
1911
- Pacific's big climate win and Germany's anti-EV push

Wed, 05 Apr 2023
1910
- Trump is arraigned, Finland joins NATO and could humanism save us?

Tue, 04 Apr 2023
1909
- Laura Tingle's Canberra, the billionaires behind Israel's new laws, and the history of laundry

Mon, 03 Apr 2023
1908
- The journos who flew in WWII bombers, and the enduring power of string, nails and other simple inventions

Thu, 30 Mar 2023
1907
- Asia update, turmoil in Israel, secret lives of stones

Wed, 29 Mar 2023
1906
- UK politics, Sri Lanka update and the ancient Buddha found on an Aussie beach

Tue, 28 Mar 2023
1905
- Laura Tingle's Canberra, China in the Middle East, and the poetics of terra nullius

Mon, 27 Mar 2023
1904
- The American town that changed the world, and the history of coffee

Thu, 23 Mar 2023
1903
- Indigenous update; a broken Lebanon; rats of NYC

Wed, 22 Mar 2023
1902
- Bruce Shapiro on a possible Trump arrest, why the world is running out of fresh water and the feminist philosophies of Periyar

Tue, 21 Mar 2023
1901
- Laura Tingle on AUKUS and Paul Keating, Satyajit Das says another GFC looms and AFTRS turns 50

Mon, 20 Mar 2023
1900
- The invasion of Iraq, 20 years on

Thu, 16 Mar 2023
1899
- Asia and AUKUS and Margaret Simons on Tanya Plibersek

Wed, 15 Mar 2023

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