Randy Newman's songs ask listeners to look at the world through someone else's eyes. That imaginative empathy may be exactly ...

Christa Pike was headline news for all the wrong reasons when the state tried and failed to murder her. For the first time ...

Runaway specialist fees and years-long public waiting lists demand immediate action. Government has the power, says John Menadue, it just needs to deploy it.

The rout at the US midterms was a fierce denunciation of authoritarian rule, says US Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman. Sure voters were concerned about inflation  increases, but they also rejected cruelty, ...