Bruce Shapiro on Mamdani's victory, Trump's obsession with grand buildings, plus an author's win over AI

The legacy of U Thant plus what Australia's earliest photographs can tell us

Anna Henderson's Canberra, banning kids from social media and cracking the Kryptos code

Francesca Albanese: Australia complicit in the Gaza genocide, plus how our polticians got hooked on gambling money

The power of Patrick White plus why we should forgive

Ian Dunt's UK, how Chicago is resisting ICE, and Australian anthropology turns 100

Anna Henderson's Canberra, global surveillance network exposed, and can AI speak whale?

The political drama before the Dismissal, and communing with Stalin's ghost

Looted bronzes returning to Africa, plus love in antiquity

Bruce Shapiro's USA, Suriname's first female president, and a world without sand?

Bernard Keane's Canberra, Chris Hedges slams Western media's coverage of Gaza, and Fiona Stanley's cancelled hospital event

Tim Minchin's nipples are just fine, thanks

Australia's foreign policy in the age of Trump, plus Ilan Pappe on Israel's future

Ian Dunt's UK, trouble in Madagascar, and women in the skies

Tom McIlroy's Canberra, the wonder of clouds, and who speaks Esperanto?

Inside the Gisele Pelicot trial, plus how our cities lost their shade

Could sanctions on Iran backfire? Plus the Australian father of the bomb

Bruce Shapiro's USA, Irris Makler on October 7, and New Zealand's crusade on feral predators

Does our world lack moral ambition? And the Victorian obsession with orchids

Doc Evatt and the making of Israel, plus the twisted history of rope