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The War in Gaza: No End in Sight

After seven months of campaigning, Israel’s most pressing problem remains the continued existence, indeed resilience, of Hamas.

Benny Morris

20 May 2024 · 17 min read

19 May 2024, Israel, Srigim-Li On: Relatives and friends carry the coffin of Shani Luk, a 22-year-old German-Israeli who was killed while fleeing a music festival on 7 October. Alamy.

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They Walked in Line

Charlotte Allen 15 Oct 2026 · 31 min read

From left to right, poster artwork for Poster artwork Salon Kitty, The Night Porter, and Ilsa She Wolf of the SS.

Josh Frydenberg on Bondi, Antisemitism and A Grateful Son

Claire Lehmann 14 Oct 2026 · 21 min read

Josh Frydenberg in colour against a textured editorial collage featuring Parliament House, a Jewish memorial gathering and Australia’s map.

Anti-Catholic Social Panics, Then and Now

Steven Tucker 14 Oct 2026 · 10 min read

Thomas Nast’s 1871 cartoon depicting crocodiles attacking schoolchildren beside a flooded Tammany Hall building in New York.

A Dishonest (and Dangerous) Nobel Laureate

Norman J.W. Goda 13 Oct 2026 · 12 min read

85 year old indian woman Navanethem Pillay, wearing glasses, gold hoop earrings and a turquoise blazer, sits at the Nuremberg Forum.

Common People

Ronald Radosh 13 Oct 2026 · 16 min read

Woody Guthrie plays guitar and harmonica while Pete Seeger plays banjo in a wood-panelled room, accompanied by two seated men.

How Genetics Rewrote History

Razib Khan 13 Oct 2026 · 17 min read

Black-and-white collage of five male scientists, including bearded men and bespectacled researchers, with DNA helixes, skulls and bones.

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