If the US vice-presidential debate was refreshingly civil, the candidates avoided much discussion of domestic and ...

Editor-in-chief of The Economist Zanny Minton Beddoes, on what it would take for a permanent end to the fighting, and the future for Ukraine if that can’t be reached. For two-and-a-half years, Ukraine ...

Michael sits down with Attica’s head chef to discuss his new memoir, Uses for Obsession. There are few people in this country as obsessed with understanding the cultural and social potential of ...

Director of the Australia Institute’s climate and energy program Polly Hemming, on the rhetoric of “nature positivity” and the inaction it hides. Protecting Australia’s environment is a matter of ...

Israel correspondent for The Economist Anshel Pfeffer on where the Middle East is headed, and how, or if, the fighting can end. One year on from the October 7 attacks against Israel, the region is ...

Melanie Cheng’s newest novel, The Burrow, stole an evening of my life. I was already a fan of her first two books – short story collection Australia Day and her first novel, Room for a Stranger. She’s ...

Special correspondent for The Saturday Paper Jason Koutsoukis, on why the national strategy on counterterrorism has collapsed – and what it means for our safety. There’s a greater than 50 per cent ...

Middle East correspondent for The Economist Gregg Carlstrom on Hassan Nasrallah’s legacy and what his death means for Lebanon, and for Israel. The leader of Hezbollah has been killed in an Israeli ...

ABC journalist and host of the Global Roaming podcast Geraldine Doogue, on how the two candidates are using their roots to appeal to voters in very different ways. As much as they would hate to admit ...

Economist and contributor to The Saturday Paper Peter Martin, on the “illusory” discounts and how a Cadbury Caramello Koala helped fuel the outrage. There are hundreds of angry posts on X, TikTok and ...

When Hezbollah’s leader, Hassan Nasrallah, was killed in Beirut over the weekend, Michelle Jasmin Dimasi felt the blast from her apartment. Michelle’s an Australian journalist and she’s been based in ...