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Bruce Shapiro on the latest from the US, human rights lawyer Philippe Sands on the push to make environmental destruction a crime and curator Petra Kayser on the brilliance of Goya.

Laura Tingle reports from Canberra on COVID and carparks, Bilal Sarway and Andrew Quilty on the Taliban taking rural Afghanistan almost unopposed and the current crisis in the Chelsea Hotel in Manhattan.

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Ian Dunt talks to the troubled waters facing Boris Johnson electorally and Sarah Maslin explains the forces keeping Bolsonaro in power in Brazil, and the story of two Indigenous men that travelled the globe from America and Tahiti to Britain in the 18th century and the man who painted them both.

Bruce Shapiro on the latest from the US, Sociologist Nicole Curato on the impact of the war on drugs in the Philippines and writer Ianto Ware reflects on his radical mother.

Laura Tingle's Canberra and Barnaby Joyce the leader of Nats (again), and 100th anniversary of China's Communist Party

Academic Patrick Barwise on the ongoing threats to the BBC and author Ed Caesar discusses the life of Maurice Wilson, a World War 1 veteran with a wild plan to climb Mt Everest.

Are we suffering from the fossil fuel order? marine noise pollution, and Van Gogh's sister-in-law

Bruce Shapiro on the latest from the US, Rod Barton's discusses his spy career and Edmund Richardson on a mysterious archaeologist.

The koala is in real danger of extinction and yet politics are preventing any effective action being taken to protect them.

Where did the 91,000 members of the Stasi go after the fall of the Berlin wall? Was there a market for their skills? Ross Dobson is a chef and food writer who has looked through the history of Australian cookery to try and find our national dish.

Indigenous fashion design at Fashion Week, Christmas Island's radical past, and the mystery sleeping illness

Bruce Shapiro with the latest on US politics, Antonia Juhasz on Shell being ruled liable for climate change and Alex O'Brien on what playing poker has taught her about life.

Laura Tingle on the stories from Canberra you may have missed, Clinton Fernandes on his quest to unlock the documents that will reveal Australia's role in ending the Allende Presidency in Chile, and Bri Lee on the forces preventing equal opportunity to education in Australia.

Almost 50 years after the resignation of President Richard Nixon, there is still much to learn from recently released tapes, of the lies, burglary and backstabbing surrounding Watergate. With Michael Dobbs, former Washington Post journalist, and author of King Richard.

Ian Dunt reports on the shocking revelations of Dominic Cummings' lies, Britain's 50 year war on drugs, and whether the UK should come out of lockdown. Robert Ayson analyses the possibility of nuclear war in the Taiwan Straits, and the rebel librarians from Syria's civil war.

US commentator Bruce Shapiro discusses the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa race massacre, historian David Brophy looks at how Australia can take the middle road with China and New Yorker writer Rebecca Mead reveals new secrets about a giant chalk man etched into an English hill.

Laura Tingle on the political fallout from the Melbourne lockdown, safely managing the mouse plague and pushing boundaries on voluntary euthanasia legislation.

Yosano Akiko was Japan's very first feminist poet — a trail-blazing, prolific and controversial writer, and A.C Grayling reminds us of the paradox of knowledge: the more we know, the greater becomes the extent of our ignorance.

Tess Newton Cain surveys the politics of the Pacific, Fredrik Logevall and Michael Kazin dissect the myths around J.F.K. and we celebrate the work of travelling 'showman photographer' J.W.Newland.

Commentator Bruce Shapiro on the latest from the US, Ojibwe author and historian David Treuer on returning US National Parks to the tribes and linguist Alexandra Aikhenvald on saving endangered languages.

Laura Tingle discusses the Federal impact of the weekend's Upper Hunter state by-election and reviews the Government's COVID response and vaccination strategy. Rashid Khalidi considers the options for a sustainable solution in Gaza and the crucial role to be played by the United States. Ginger Meggs, Australia's longest running cartoon character, turns 100 - Jason Chatfield and Tristan Bancks disc...

In the lead up to National Sorry Day, we look at the ongoing intergeneration trauma among the Stolen Generations, and the principles of Indigenous design and architecture and why our future cities and built environments need to address and incorporate the Aboriginal notion of Country.

Ian Dunt dissects the Tories agenda as outlined in the Queen's speech. Norway approaches the 10th anniversary of a domestic terrorist's mass killing. What would Sir Robert Menzies, Australia's longest serving Prime Minister, make of the economic and educational policies of today's Liberal Party?

Bruce Shapiro with the latest from the US, author and historian Deborah Lipstadt on anti-Semitism and writer Edward Rutherfurd discusses his latest epic on China.