Prisons don’t create safer communities, so why is Australia spending billions on building them?
Research shows 37 new prisons have been built in Australia since 2000. But the evidence shows increased incarceration doesn’t ...
A new wave of filmmakers are exploring motherhood’s discontents. Nightbitch makes this monstrous
Nightbitch sets out to show motherhood is far more savage and feral than the anodyne images posted on social media.
What is PNF stretching, and will it improve my flexibility?
So PNF stretching is potentially a more time-efficient way to improve flexibility, compared to, for example, static ...
Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown has enormous resonance – but doesn’t break with gender stereotypes
Bob Dylan arrived in New York City at 19 in 1961. In A Complete Unknown, Timothée Chalamet plays Dylan during his emergence ...
The acquisition of Text Publishing by Penguin Random House is part of a worrying trend in Australian publishing
Text joins Pantera Press, which was acquired by Hardie Grant in September 2024, and Affirm Press, which described its ...
‘Move fast and break things’: Trump’s $500 billion AI project has major risks
Trump wants the US to build ever more faster, more powerful AI systems – without considering crucial safety concerns.
Why have Joe Biden’s preemptive pardons caused such a stir? A president’s pardoning power has few limits
Joe Biden preemptively pardoned his family and others concerned about retribution from Donald Trump. The Constitution says ...
Yes, Trump can rename the Gulf of Mexico – just not for everyone. Here’s how it works
Renaming it the Gulf of America would apply only in the US. And the long global history of disputed place names suggests it ...
The last time it was legal, exports of sea sand destroyed dozens of Indonesian islands. Now, the ban is being lifted
The demand for sand is soaring in places like Singapore. But extracting sand from the sea is destructive. It’s worth looking ...