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Charlotte Grimshaw: An empathy deficit is wreaking havoc around the world

In urgent and particular ways, empathy is the issue of our times.

How Britain’s mental health burden is threatening its future

Britain, it seems, is bad for your mental health - and that’s bad for the economy.

Jane Clifton: Europe’s new pest threat - ants, bedbugs and moths run rampant

There’s something karmically dystopian about insects destroying human habitats.

Why breaking up with the US may be in Australia’s best interests

In this new world, Australia will look to other allies to help deepen its security.

How Trump’s tantrums are awakening America’s conscience

Trump’s White House is a playground battlefield and he's the kindergarten king.

Jane Clifton: Éire odyssey

James Joyce’s Ulysses induces adoration and confusion in equal measure.

Would banning the Nazis have really changed history?

What can – and should – be done about the rise of the German far right?

Winter is coming? The terrible years after a nuclear blast

The direct effects of nuclear war won’t be the deadliest thing; climate change will.

Jane Clifton: Say what?

Pronunciation is the latest battleground of the culture wars.

Europe now: Appeasing Trump

The UK hopes to mask its powerlessness by massaging the ego of the US President.

Europe now: The reality of life in the shadows of Putin & Trump

Europe and the US are no longer allies. No one believes Nato is a strong organisation.

What NZ politicians can learn from Albanese’s win

Chris Hipkins and the New Zealand Labour Party should be buoyed.

Jane Clifton: I Am Farticus - the TV ads declaring war on dignity

Advertising for lavatory paper and laxatives has gone down the toilet.

Nowhere to go: Jonathan Kronstadt on a fundamental human right flushed away

A paucity of public toilets highlights American inequality and marginalisation.

Jane Clifton: Golfer Rory McIlroy caught in a custody battle

Champion golfer’s appeal easily crosses the Irish divide.

The reality behind the gene-edited dire wolf

‘Resurrection’ of the dire wolf made headlines but is the wool being pulled over our eyes?

Politics “incivility” problems: Smoke bombs, brawls and disruptive songs

Bad behaviour in the parliaments of Europe is still not enough to put off voters.

History speaking: What the evolution of a modern language tells us about ourselves

New language evolution theories throw into shade rigid ideas of race and identity.