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Should a river have the right to sue? In Is a River Alive?, Robert Macfarlane explores the global movement to grant legal ...
Where violence often begins with words, the link between thought, speech and action demands closer attention. As global ...
Australians have watched the papal election, but now attention must return home. With multiple dioceses in transition and ...
In an era starved of thoughtful, live public debate, Q&A offered a rare, demotic platform where ideology met interrogation, ...
Israel’s strikes on Iran have been framed as necessary defence — but what happens when pre-emption becomes policy, not ...
A decade after Donald Trump launched his improbable bid for the presidency, America finds itself deeper in conflict and ...
Eureka Street offers an alternative. It's less a magazine than a wide ranging conversation about the issues that matter in ...
Ulysses is a door we will knock on forever. It is the Dublin of 121 years ago, captured 103 years ago. It is the sacred text of the greatest work we have, which is still discernibly part of our world ...
It’s dark. A woman stands outside a house in a quiet street in the Netherlands, watching her estranged daughter through a window. Inside are two granddaughters she has never met, and a son-in-law she ...
In a classic moment of comedy history, the TV show Candid Camera had actors reveal the human tendency for conformity. You can see unsuspecting participants enter an elevator and quickly conform to a ...
In 18 th and 19 th century rural England and Wales, “sin-eaters” were summoned to the bedside of the dead and dying with solemn responsibility to assume the burden of their unforgiven sins. Household ...
As another anniversary of my husband’s death approaches, I’ve been wondering if I want AI to ‘resurrect’ him. An AI clone of him could move, answer my questions and remind me of his voice. It wouldn’t ...