
Clean eating: why cutting sugar out of your diet might not be as healthy as it sounds – new study
Cutting out sugar entirely might seem virtuous but new research in mice suggests it could harm your gut in ways that don’t show up on the scales.
Independent Analysis and Reportage

Cutting out sugar entirely might seem virtuous but new research in mice suggests it could harm your gut in ways that don’t show up on the scales.

Citizens are taking water testing into their own hands as sewage spills in rivers and on beaches increasingly get reported.

Rest can feel uncomfortable when society treats effort as evidence of commitment.

A target reduction from 80% to 50% or 60% takes pressure off government and manufacturers to address them.

Adolescent health expert Susan Sawyer talks to The Conversation Weekly podcast, six months on from Australia’s social media ban for under 16-year-olds.

Local needs, political tensions and corporate power all get involved in the democratic processes by which Americans govern their communities.

Polarization and negative partisanship have lowered the standards for whom Americans are willing to support.

There was a time when you could be fired from your job for being gay. It took LGBTQ employees at companies like Kodak to challenge workplace discrimination and transform corporate culture.

The Israeli prime minister has a long history of irritating American leaders.

SPECIAL REPORT: By Eugene Doyle Something significant and revelatory just happened in the New Zealand Parliament. I was present at today’s Foreign Affairs Select Committee meeting when things kicked off between the Foreign Minister and humanitarian aid activist Hāhona Ormsby, one of the New Zealanders who survived kidnapping and beatings by Israeli forces in May.

There is nothing in the agreement that is positive for the US and did not already exist before the war.

The Albanese government finds itself in policy quicksand on three core issues as the sitting fortnight looms.