The first hours of Operation Epic Fury — the joint US–Israeli military offensive against Iran, launched on 28 February — demonstrated the extraordinary reach of modern precision warfare. US and ...

I wrote “The Preservation of Pure Learning” — my summing up of the state of Australian universities for Inside Story after more than a year of Covid-19 — from a cabin in a holiday park in Cudmirrah, a ...

Romantic love gets all the headlines, says writer Andrew O”Hagan, but just as often it is friendship that describes the shape of your life ...

A thought-provoking (and entertaining) new book about revolutions doesn’t answer a question that has had our reviewer puzzled ...

Two new novels, one from Tasmania and the other from a South African writer, extend our understanding of empire and its consequences. Their settings are a century apart. Each is a hypothetical ...

Diplomats spend their careers writing “cables” that report, record, recommend and instruct. This lifetime habit of writing has fed a minor Australian tradition of foreign affairs books by retired ...

When a determined and resourceful young man from Punjab — I’ll call him Hari — was driving me home recently, our conversation turned to his experiences and aspirations in Australia. He’d finished a ...

With the rise and rise in support for Pauline Hanson’s One Nation, the polls have created one of the most extraordinary moments in Australian politics. In December, across seven polls, support for One ...

From the big end of town, the perspective is grim. Global investment in Victoria’s property sector halved in three years, down from $10 billion to $5 billion. The Property Council is quick to blame ...

The proceedings of the Marine Environment Protection Committee of the International Maritime Organization don’t normally make headline news. (Except perhaps in Ocean Freight Times.) But the ...