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Social psychologist Hugh Mackay reflects on loneliness, neighbourliness and the habits that sustain a humane society, arguing ...

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Australia’s support for the U.S. strike on Iran may seem like routine alliance politics. But it signals a willingness to ...

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Iran has often been framed as either an emerging nuclear threat or regional security problem. But for Beijing, Tehran has ...

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For now, the Vatican has ruled out women deacons, invoking the argument that ordained ministers must resemble Christ, who was ...

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Every generation confronts the same uneasy dilemma: when evil threatens the vulnerable, can refusing violence become a form ...

The killing of Iran’s supreme leader has shaken a regime that once seemed immovable. Yet as pressure on the Islamic Republic grows, the opposition remains divided by ideology, history and mistrust, ...