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As the risk of region-wide war grows in the Middle East, the United States looks increasingly like an ineffectual bystander ...

All of Hamburg hates the AfD,” tens of thousands of demonstrators chanted in Germany’s second-largest city on 19 January this ...

The Monthly and the Saturday Paper are campaigning for fairer school funding. But are they missing the deeper story?

Mao Zedong, the autodidact son of well-to-do peasants, was rough-spoken, ruthless, mercurial and volatile. Zhou Enlai, the well-educated scion of a fallen but patrician family, was suave, wily, ...

From Sam and Lawrence Freedman’s excellent London-based Substack newsletter, Comment is Freed, comes this insider’s account — with Australian resonances — of the ubiquitous quest for “efficiencies.” ...

Books & arts That slippery zeitgeist Andrew Bonnell 23 August 2024 Harald Jähner traces the forces and emotions that shaped the Weimar Republic ...

Essays & reportage Unproductive schooling, counterproductive reform Dean Ashenden 19 October 2022 Three new Productivity Commission reports highlight big problems in schooling and school reform — and ...