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, ...

A fifth interest rate rise and the mortgage pain that goes with it, just days before early voting opens in Victoria, may show what happens to incumbents when voters blame them for decisions they did ...

Rogue agents, shutdown resistance and models trained to expect consciousness are pushing AI beyond human control. Keeping it ...

Successive governments have quietly deepened the US military footprint across Australia. Communities near proposed submarine ...

From Paris to Jakarta, Tunisia to Chile, street revolts are growing in opposition to entrenched elites, corruption and ...

Michigan voters reject a bigoted campaign of anti-Muslim smears to send progressive Democrat Abdul El-Sayed to the US Senate, ...

If Australia wants artificial intelligence (AI) to deliver genuine productivity gains, it should ask a question often missing ...

A new synthesis of 37 studies tracking almost 80,000 young people finds only a very weak link between social media use and ...

The Republican collapse in the US midterms has weakened Benjamin Netanyahu's central pitch to Israeli voters. This exposes ...