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While the secret signals and surveillance facility at Pine Gap in Northern Australia, officially named the Joint Defence Facility Pine Gap (JDFPG) is billed as a joint affair between Australia and the United States, it […]

INTERVIEWER: So the Prime Minister has said Australia is concerned about events in Venezuela, emphasised restraint, international law, and the need for stability. OPPOSITION SPOKESPERSON: Yes. Very disappointing. Weak. Soft. Un-Australian. INTERVIEWER: Because he didn’t […]

Before Palestine became a battlefield of competing nationalisms, it was something far less dramatic and far more instructive: a plural society. Muslims, Christians, and Jews lived across the country under the governance of the Ottoman […]

Why How We Remember World War I Shapes How We Understand World War II The way societies remember war is never neutral. Memory shapes what is excused, what is repeated, and what is permitted to […]

Introduction: Removing the Halo to See the Man Few historical figures are so well known – and so poorly understood – as Jesus. Over two millennia, theology, empire, myth-making, and political convenience have layered stories […]

There is an old, tired story humanity tells itself: that to be strong is to conquer. To dominate land, resources, and even other people. But this story has a fatal flaw. It is authored by […]

Dear friends and readers, In this season of twinkling lights and familiar carols, the world around us can sometimes feel heavier than the haze hanging over a hot December day. Troubled times remind us how […]

By Niu Honglin As a podcaster, I work on shows with different themes. Some are analytical. Some are historical. Some are very entertaining. But this one stayed with me in a different way. This article […]

War is not a natural disaster. It is a system – a complex, enduring machinery with distinct, interlocking parts that have been refined over centuries. To understand why humanity remains trapped in cycles of conflict, […]

By Sarah Noel Change never waits for your books to balance. It creeps in sideways – a drop in traffic here, a vendor gone quiet there – and suddenly the week doesn’t go like last […]

By Chen Ziqi An iPhone that costs about $100 less might not sound like a trade policy story, but in China’s Hainan Island, it is. As global trade faces rising tariffs and growing protectionism, China […]

By Walt Zlotow Life without possibility of parole makes no sense. Never has, never will. Two years ago an Illinois law went into effect that recognizes that truth… at least involving killers under 21 at […]

It’s a familiar script in the United States. Another mass shooting tears through a community. Voices on the left call for tighter gun laws. And conservatives – politicians, pundits, and voters – push back: “It’s […]