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Kavanaugh's FBI investigation, NAFTA has gone but is USCMA that different, and why did Trump and Kim Jong-Un 'fall in love'? Students protesting in Mexico City in 1968 were gunned down in the Tlatelolco Plaza just 10 days before the opening of the Olympic Games. Before the Sons of Empire, there were the Daughters of Freedom - the Australian women who won a national franchise and led a global democ...

Jack Thompson sits down with Phillip for a wide ranging interview

-How did the Left alienate the working class it once claimed to represent?

A conspiracy theory grows in Beijing around the trade war. Is there a spy hiding in Peter Dutton's new Access and Assistance Bill - and how afraid should we feel? Wendy Whiteley on the Harbour bohemians.

Kavanaugh's accusers, has Rosenstein resigned as Deputy AG or will Trump fire him? The Trump administration is making good on its promise to reset policy towards Israel and the Palestinians with a series of moves designed to cut off options. Could the Sicilian mafia have emerged on the back of the humble lemon?

Laura Tingle tries to keep up with action man, Prime Minister Scott Morrison, the history of Australian foreign policy from before the Europeans arrived and the dubious history of the Myers Briggs personality test.

A quarter century ago political scientist Samuel Huntington published an essay which may explain the rise of populism. Was Turkey the canary in the coalmine for the next global financial disaster? Tom May says the answer to environmental problems could be contained in fungi.

We ask why Australian architects are highly regarded abroad but under-recognised at home, discuss Puerto Rican politics post-Hurricane Maria and imagine the ins and outs of interplanetary travel with a quantum physicist.

Bruce Shapiro reports from the USA on the latest news in politics. Is the future financial independence of Bougainville inextricably tied to mining? The social and political legacy of Hugh Stretton ,Australia's leading social democratic thinker of the 20th century.

Laura Tingle talks about our search for leadership, do lobbyists have too much influence in Canberra and we delve into the literary commune established on the Greek island of Hydra in the 1960s.

Bruce Shapiro on the week in Trump's USA. The theory that a giant asteroid struck earth 66 million years ago and wiped out dinosaurs and other species has captured the popular imagination - is it true? Samuel Beckett and the politics of aftermath.

Have Boris Johnson's extra-marital affair, and his controversial 'suicide vest' comments about Brexit dashed his leadership ambitions? Was Brazil's National Museum fire a tragic result of neglect and years of political corruption? We dive into the secret lives of whales, tracking one of the world’s most enigmatic creatures from its four-legged, dog-snouted past to its uncertain climate-changed fut...

Germaine Greer and Bob Carr talk about politics, society and everything in between with Phillip

Laura Tingle reports on the new Scott Morrison led government, we find out the latest in the battle to save the Tasmanian Devils and we discuss the benefits of revisiting the moon.

Where do Brexiteers like Boris Johnson get the idea that Britain is a super power, able to bend the world to its will? Well, one source is in the mythology built around Winston Churchill. Little Women is a deceptively traditional book; its long standing appeal lies in the progressive ideas it champions says cultural biographer, Anne Boyd Rioux.

We find out the reasons behind the recent arrests of Indian activists, ask how Russia's 'robber barons' morphed into a new social class and delve into the forgotten subculture of Wilhelmine Germany.

Bruce Shapiro's regular report on the week's news and politics from the US. As the health impacts of diesel fuel become more well known, countries from Korea to Mexico and Germany are introducing strict new laws for diesel cars. Some countries prohibit high polluting vehicles from cities altogether. But here in Australia, where diesel fuel kills more Australians than the annual road toll, we are b...

How clean are the new Prime Minister's hands in the coup against Malcolm Turnbull, how much involvement has Australia had in assisting the UAE to prepare for the war in Yemen and the many incarnations of Dudley Flats in Melbourne.

Daniel McCarthy on the outcome of this week's primaries and whether Google favours the left; why are there still so many indigenous deaths in custody 27 years after the Royal Commission? India's new billionaires are creating a saffron tinged version of Russia.

John McCain in life, politics and death.

What can we expect from a Scott Morrison Primer Ministership, the crisis deepens in Venezuela, the churches look to the future after the Royal Commission.

Ian Dunt on the week in politics and news in the UK; author Ronen Bergman on the secret history of Israel's targeted assassinations.

Bruce Shapiro brings us the latest on Paul Manafort's conviction and Michael Cohen's guilty plea, we investigate Elon Musk's troubled Tesla tweets and join the search for the world's most famous author's library.

Bruce Shapiro's regular report on the week's news and politics from the US. How Britain lost its dominance of the Middle East after World War 2.Could the chicken nugget be the symbol of the age we live in?