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Professor Brendon O'Connor on the US response to the Hamas attacks on Israel. Kristin Surak investigates the lucrative global market for citizenship and passport papers. And Nick Hordern tells the story of Lorraine Murray - the Australian-born Shanghai sex worker who became a counter-intelligence informant. 

Analysis of current events to the hottest debates in politics, science, philosophy and culture.

Michael Palin shares what he learnt from the 'murderous and mundane' war diaries of his Great-Uncle Harry and Julia Ebner explains how the extremists are moving from the margins to the mainstream.

Bruce Shapiro explains the ousting of US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, and what comes next. Elizabeth Rush shares her journey to Antarctica's 'Doomsday Glacier' and how it shifted her feelings on becoming a mother. Plus, Greg King exposes how forestry barons covered up the logging of California's iconic redwood forests.  

Ian Dunt dissects UK Home Secretary Suella Braverman's attack on multiculturalism. New research reveals the vast extent of the nuclear fallout from America's Trinity nuclear bomb test in 1945. Plus, the original Luddites of the 1800s, and their rebellion against Big Tech. 

In his lifetime, ground-breaking historian Henry Reynolds has seen many changes in the telling of Australian history.  Some of the most important truths, such as what really happened on the frontier, were instigated by him.

Adam Welz tells the shocking story behind the booming lion breeding program in South Africa and Otto English examines some of the heroic figures of our age to reveal them as much more complex flawed humans than they appear.

World-leading intelligence historian Calder Walton takes us on a tour through the 100-year Intelligence war between East and West, and historian Tamson Pietsch tells the story of a grand educational experiment conducted in the 1920's, called ‘The Floating University’.

Bruce Shapiro on the 'tentative' agreement reached between Hollywood studios and striking workers. Historian Gina Anne Tam explains why the Chinese state is cracking down on minority languages. And the powerful legacy of the Yirrkala Bark Petitions, 60 years on. 

Journalist Clare Armstrong on the government's new employment white paper, and what it means for pensioners keen to work more hours. Why are undersea cables becoming a source of geopolitical tension? Plus, the improvisational creativity of artist Lonnie Holley. 

Yanis Varoufakis explains why he thinks capitalism has been replaced by Technofeudalism. Keith Houston takes on a trip through humanity's history of counting - from fingers and toes to the pocket calculator.

Robert D. Kaplan challenges Western ideas about the Middle East and tries to offer a broader picture of the future of the region that looks beyond the binaries of democracy and authoritarianism. Plus, Loren Grush tells the story of the six extraordinary women that smashed the glass ceiling of NASA's space program back in 1978. 

Ian Dunt on the efforts of former Prime Ministers Theresa May and Liz Truss to defend their legacies. What role has religion played in the strengthening of ties between Israel and Papua New Guinea? Plus, from Shakespeare to Louis Armstrong - the importance of cheerfulness in Western Art.

Amy Remeikis is this week's Canberra sage, as the Voice campaign heads into its final weeks. Nuclear energy has been put back on the political agenda but no-one has solved the problem of nuclear waste. And writer Sheila Ngọc Phạm loves offal, and wonders why Australians stopped eating it.

In a special episode of Late Night Live, Phillip is joined by two legally blind writers from either side of the Atlantic. Both Andrew Leland and Selina Mills have recently penned insightful memoirs which will challenge and change the way you think about blindness. 

Karla Grant shares her experience of the Sami parliament in Norway, Rodrigo Acuña questions why Australia remains tight lipped on their rumoured involvement in the Pinochet coup in Chile 50 years ago and historians Laura Rademaker and Mavis Kerinaiua tell some surprising stories from the history of the Tiwi Islands.

Bruce Shapiro reflects on Joe Biden's historic visit to Hanoi, and US-Vietnam relations. Plus, Sarah Ogilvie celebrates the thousands of people who helped create the original Oxford English Dictionary - the greatest "crowd-sourcing" achievement in human history.  

Bernard Keane canvasses the Government and Greens' housing deal, and the Qantas political missteps. Taiwanese journalist Brian Hioe says the rest of the world should stop amping up the geopolitical pressures on Taiwan. And Anya von Bremzen on six national dishes that aren't all they appear to be.  

America was a land born in paranoia, and it's coloured people's thinking ever since, Colin Dickey argues. And what would Charles Dickens make of the literary tourism trend he has sparked? Lee Jackson joined the Dickens trail. 

Three experts in regional journalism offer solutions to the rapid decline of local news in both Australia and North America. Plus, Harvard physicist Avi Loeb on why humanity should be preparing for a future in the stars.

Ian Dunt gives an F for the UK governments management of the crumbling school system, how Indonesia and Australia will work together to  make electric vehicle batteries and the life of Dorothea Mackellar who wrote those iconic words - I love a sunburnt country...

George Megalogenis and Matt Qvorstrup discuss what's been key to referendum success in the past, both in Australia and overseas. Plus, 100 years on, Roger Pulvers says the tragic Kanto earthquake has an enduring legacy in Japan. And Sarah Goldbloom Zurbo talks about what it was like to grow up with a communist father.

Two stories of trickery that prove the truth is stranger than fiction. Karina Urbach reveals how her grandmother's famous cookbook was stolen and expropriated by the Nazis, and Richard Evans unravels the story of the explorer who claimed to be the first to reach the North Pole. 

The Lowy Institute's Sam Roggeveen lays out a bold new plan for Australia's foreign policy, and journalist Laura Trethewey takes us on the quest to map the entire ocean floor by 2030. Plus, we hear about an unsung Australian dynamo and one of the pioneers behind 'Meals on Wheels' - Doris Taylor. 

Bruce Shapiro dissects the first Republican presidential candidates debate, where Trump was a no-show. After a devastating fire season in the northern hemisphere, what might be in store for Australia this summer? And the phenomenon of "tradwives" - the young women shunning modern feminism.