It’s far less common, though, for a coroner to devote as much attention as Justice Elisabeth Armitage did to the background ...

Having sailed close to the financial wind in its first iteration, Apple Computer Company (founded by two Steves: Jobs and Wozniak), it became a poster child for American innovation, product excellence ...

“Scarborough Fair” is what Ellen Stekert calls a “go around song,” one that is passed from singer to singer, down centuries, across oceans, shape-shifting all the while. “Go around songs” shed and ...

The Atlantic ’s Adam Serwer calls it “a comprehensive attack on knowledge itself, a war against culture, history, and science.” Donald Trump’s administration seems intent on dismantling the ...

Does anyone remember “American carnage”? In his 2017 inaugural address Donald Trump portrayed a collapsing society, emphasising in particular the “crime and gangs and drugs” destroying America’s ...

Australia’s relations with Russia have what you might call a colourful history. Spying has been at the heart of it. Tony Abbott famously vowed to shirtfront president Vladimir Putin in 2014 after ...

In my day job, I run a lab dedicated to research and development in AI for law enforcement and community safety. We’re preoccupied with building what’s euphemistically described as “technology for ...

The title of Alyx Gorman’s engrossing new book All Women Want is surely a nod or retort to the “great question” Sigmund Freud claimed he hadn’t been able to answer: “What does a woman want?” As Gorman ...

“In the physical act of composing with a pencil, I am making musical movements, pressing harder, pressing more lightly”: a page from the manuscript of Andrew Ford’s The Carnival of the Insects.

The most common explanation for Australia’s housing woes is a lack of supply. Property values and rents have outstripped incomes for a simple reason: we haven’t built enough homes to accommodate a ...

What we do know as a result of all this journalism is, first, that Tim Stewart and his wife are longstanding and close friends of the Morrison family and that Tim’s wife, Lynelle Stewart, was employed ...

When Didier Eribon’s mother was eighty-seven, he and his estranged brothers placed her in a nursing home in Fismes, near Reims, northeast of Paris. Within a few weeks she had become bedridden and ...