Politics
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Macron’s Islamophobic undercurrent
What exactly is driving French President Emmanuel Macron’s foreign policy? By Bruno Maçães Politico He says he wants a more…
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For farmers climate change is the headline to our lives, but McCormack’s Nationals avert their gaze
There might be a place where “raving inner city lunatics” are the only people who are concerned about climate change…
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‘Designed to torture’: asylum seeker chooses Iranian prison over PNG detention centre
Ariobarzan endured six years of detention inside and outside the barbed wire on Papua New Guinea’s Manus Island in the…
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‘Pulling the country backward’: WA government fails to imagine a future state
The state’s solar potential is mind-blowing. World-class by any measure. As the world seeks to lower its emissions, the economic…
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UN experts call Morsi’s death in Egypt ‘arbitrary killing’
“Morsi was held in conditions that can only be described as brutal, particularly during his five-year detention in the Tora…
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Behind the Insurgent Attack in Southern Thailand
Crisis Group’s South East Asia Senior Analyst, Matt Wheeler, explains what happened and what it means for the stagnant peace-dialogue…
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The Berlin Wall fell 30 years ago.
The Berlin Wall was torn down 30 years ago. Ivana Kottasova and Natalie Croker CNN The seismic event sent shock…
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Why Corbynism matters
Late in October, just as temperatures dropped and the nights drew in, more than 1,500 people joined an online conference…
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Ursula von der Leyen seeks new balance
Ursula von der Leyen has lost her balance — at least a bit. By David M. Herszenhorn, Hans von der…
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Public advocacy should not be a crime
Mr Morrison announced last week in Queensland that he planned to crack down on what he described as a new…
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Ardern says New Zealand on ‘right side of history’ as MPs pass zero-carbon bill
Jacinda Ardern’s landmark climate legislation has passed in New Zealand parliament, with historic cross-party support, committing the nation to reduce…
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Policing the Berlin Wall: the ghostly photos taken by the Stasi’s hidden cameras
Operatives were trained at the Stasi Observational school in photography, trailing suspects, and dressing in disguise. Donna West Brett The…
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Three Troubling Trends at the UN Security Council
Amid these frictions, it is the job of UN diplomats to keep channels for quiet communication up and running Richard…
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Gaza: what life is like under the continuing Israeli blockade
Mlandenov said that while the humanitarian situation in Gaza remains a top priority for the UN, “the core of the…
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UN says Syrian Constitutional Committee making ‘positive’ progress
“Special Representative Pedersen is happy with the progress of the meetings,” she told Anadolu Agency, adding: “Many issues have been…
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A very American epidemic
Las Vegas is one of those cities where you can have it all. Tim Ball Politico On the two-year anniversary…
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