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Quantum computers could expose our digital secrets – but there are much better reasons to build them
More profitable applications for quantum computers are eclipsing the drive to break encryption.
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Why the world’s most ambitious coal phase-out deal has failed – and what it means for climate finance
The $20 billion climate flop: a flagship plan to phase out coal in Indonesia hasn’t shut a single power plant.
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Getting through school in South Africa: how learners make it to the end after a poor start
A high proportion of South Africans complete grade 12 despite evidence of learning gaps – how is this possible?
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Hurricane season is here: Federal flood insurance carries 2 moral hazards – which you face depends largely on how wealthy you are
Subsidized insurance makes waterfront property seem safer than it is for wealthier buyers, while many low-income homeowners face repeat disasters with no help.
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Maps are powerful political tools shaping a nation’s past, present and future – counter maps allow everyday people to reclaim the narrative
From who gets to vote to how people travel and where taxpayer dollars are funneled, politicians and urban planners wield maps to control public imagination.
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What happens to debt when someone dies?
Whether or not there’s a will, the results are the same.
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For 2 centuries, Latter-day Saints have revered religious freedom – but their definition is evolving
Latter-day Saints have long valued the US Constitution’s promise of religious freedom – but the church has also tested its boundaries.
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Turkish democracy on trial: how Erdoğan’s rule has undermined justice and weakened his rivals
Nullifying the leader of Turkey’s main opposition party is the latest in a string of measures that are taking the country down the road to autocracy.
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View from The Hill: Could One Nation be the unofficial opposition at the 2028 poll?
On the back of her party’s recent success, Pauline Hanson’s confidence is soaring - and she’s backing herself for the top job.
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Jonathan Cook: Israeli claims about an Iran ‘threat’ were always a lie. Now we have proof
It isn’t Tehran led by unhinged, genocidal megalomaniacs threatening the security of the region and the world. It is Tel Aviv and Washington, writes Jonathan Cook. ANALYSIS: By Jonathan Cook Could it be that Israel’s 30-year narrative about Iran — one that persuaded US President Donald Trump to wage a criminal and disastrous war of…
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Birth rates are declining in most of the world, including Australia. Here’s why that really matters
Rather than an exploding overpopulation bomb, the world faces an economic and social implosion due to lacking supports to help raise much-wanted children.
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Israeli claims about an Iran ‘threat’ were always a lie. Now we have proof
ANALYSIS: By Jonathan Cook Could it be that Israel’s 30-year narrative about Iran — one that persuaded US President Donald Trump to wage a criminal and disastrous war of aggression — was always a fiction, an invention cooked up in Tel Aviv? Far from Tehran posing an existential danger to Israel, as Prime Minister Benjamin