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Autocracies get more repressive when opening up their economies – a political scientists explores why
Economic globalization was supposed to encourage democracy around the world. But sometimes the opposite happens.
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Embryo personhood, once on the margins of abortion debates, is moving closer to the center
In vitro fertilization has become a bigger part of reproductive rights debates as a once-fringe movement to recognize embryos as people grows louder.
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Venezuela earthquakes create opening for military’s return to public life
The armed forces are at the heart of the disaster response on Venezuela’s coast, just like they were in 1999.
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Andy Burnham is the Labour leader – third time lucky for the UK’s prime minister-in-waiting
His rise this time seemed unstoppable – but Burnham’s route to the top wasn’t always so clear.
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NZ govt says it had no influence over $200,000 doco ahead of Fiji election
By Russell Palmer of RNZ The government says it had no influence over $200,000 in funding for a documentary ahead of Fiji’s election about a Fijian cabinet minister facing down a scandal. The Ministry of Pacific Peoples funded the film Algorithm of Shame: In the Village, Everybody Knows was released in May, and tackles the
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View from the Hill: Has Hanson flown too close to the sun for some One Nation supporters?
From walking the streets of London with Tommy Robinson to going to luxury fashion shows in Italy, Pauline Hanson may be testing her supporters’ patience.
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Africa’s Greater Horn region is facing a looming polycrisis fueled by conflict, prices, climate and disease
The response to the many problems facing the region has been set back by cuts in humanitarian aid.
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Them at 25: Jon Ronson’s adventures with extremists made him famous – and Alex Jones, too
Jon Ronson’s Them was published just months before the world changed on September 11 2001. Its portrait of conspiracy theorists and extremists was eerily prescient.
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Trump is rehashing old claims the 2020 election was stolen. His real aim: sowing doubt in the midterms
The president claims election fraud is rife in the US. Instead of protecting electoral integrity, however, he is seeking to undermine it.
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‘Intolerable pressure’ – inside the Israel lobby campaign to coerce regulators on antisemitism
Australia’s health regulator AHPRA was “forced into a massive capitulation” to adopt the hardcore IHRA definition of antisemitism. Michael West Media investigates. INVESTIGATION: By Wendy Bacon and Stephanie Tran A Zionist doctor has claimed that the Australian health regulator CEO Justin Untersteiner “was forced into a massive capitulation with IHRA”. The Australian Health Practitioner Regulation
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How to ensure Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples benefit from newborn DNA screening
Biological samples and data from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples have been misused in the past. So how would we make a new screening program safer?
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Has the Pacific’s Ocean of Peace concept been hijacked?
ANALYSIS: By Johnny Blades of RNZ Pacific As geopolitical tensions increase in the Pacific region and numerous security alliances are rapidly forged, questions are being raised over whether the Ocean of Peace concept is being hijacked. The Ocean of Peace Declaration was made last year by members of the Pacific Islands Forum, recognising the role