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Hemma Vara: Lizzo’s fall from grace highlights hypocrisy of female empowerment

Allegations against Lizzo a sobering wake-up call on authenticity of female empowerment.

Russell Brown: Discovering art and history in an unexpected place

At the next stop, the Sallies, there was a Miramar miracle.

Jane Clifton: New everyday items are 'causing cancer', and confusion

WHO releases a new list, but headlines never screamed at us to “break up with” magnets.

Andrew Anthony: UK Conservative party wins by-election at the cost of saving the planet

Campaign against London mayor's drive to clean the city’s polluted air helped party win.

Naomii Seah: GST food debate a distraction from the real issue

With the prices of food in NZ, you’d think kai is scarce. But it’s just the opposite.

Charlotte Grimshaw: US risks losing democracy all together with Trump

People are happy, even proud, to vote in a knowledge vacuum.

Hugh Kemp: Schools should teach our kids how to have good arguments

The poverty of critical thinking in our curricula leads to poor public discourse.

Inform your opinion: Has the US been covering up alien visitors?

Intelligence official claims he saw documents proving aliens visited. But where are they?

Jane Clifton: Nigel Farage’s battle against banking and political bias

Imagine having to shop around for a bank that might accept a pro-abortion customer.

Charlotte Grimshaw: The blowbacks of being a reviewer as revenge sought

Likely hazard for reviewers is writers’ social revenge. Vicious gossip, invented slander.

Jonathan Kronstadt: Will third-party US politicians help Trump win again?

Fringe candidates hasten democracy’s fatal crash by handing keys to the drunkest drivers.

Hemma Vara: Barbie is a problematic doll. So why do millennials still love her?

Here’s hoping Barbie will find her redemption on the big screen.

Jane Clifton: Why do public broadcasters still pay ‘talent’ fabulous salaries?

With the decline of terrestrial broadcasting, celebrity’s money-spinning power is fading.

Charlotte Grimshaw: Extreme anti-abortion political beliefs have left US women suffering

If “abortion is murder” you can’t let a 10yo get away with it. What would you do with her?

Naomii Seah: Discounted public transport for some, but what about the rest of us?

In addition to a quarter-life crisis, I can look forward to my transport costs doubling.

Cathrin Schaer: Is there a Nazi revival in Germany?

If Germans could be so stupid to elect Nazis again, what hope is there for the rest of us?

Jane Clifton: Protesters are like the worst of politicians

They don’t seek to persuade, reason or recruit, but to instruct and threaten.

Patrick Mulligan: Remembering American literary titan Cormac McCarthy

US author was a seer who foretold the destruction of our natural world in his novels.