From Plato’s Republic to modern conflict, the pattern repeats: justice invoked, war justified, power deciding the outcome.

We need no reminding of the depth of the division that exists in our Australian community. It's there every time we go online ...

War does not begin where we expect it. When war arrives, it arrives in fragments, after many missed chances to leave. The last normal day passes unnoticed, and only later is it recognised for what it ...

As war and instability dominate attention, a more fundamental crisis lies beneath them. Water scarcity, shaped by climate change, technology and conflict, now tests whether nations can cooperate at ...

A Vatican report on women deacons offers caution where many expected clarity. By deferring change while reaffirming existing limits, it raises fresh doubts about how the Church understands equality — ...

As regional conflict escalates, represed Kurdish political movements are re-emerging as potential actors in Iran’s future. A ...

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

Globalisation promised cheaper goods and reliable trade routes. But the Iran conflict shows markets now pricing a ‘fragility ...

From a chair on Australia’s shopping strips, a busker occupies a quiet vantage point on civic life. Between coins dropped in ...

High above the streets of Asmara, church towers and a mosque minaret share the same skyline. In everyday markets, ...

In a culture that treats danger as a problem to be managed, the impulse to seek it out can seem irrational. But encounters ...

As cybercrime grows into one of the world’s largest economies, charities are becoming an increasingly attractive target. Fake ...