The antisemitism debate is already a political minefield. The royal commission must rise above it Matteo Vergani, Deakin University What we currently know about antisemitism in Australia...
Viral outbreaks are always on the horizon – here are the viruses an infectious disease expert is watching in 2026 Patrick Jackson, University of Virginia A new...
Today Venezuela, tomorrow Iran: can the Islamic Republic survive a second Trump presidency? Aaron Pilkington, University of Denver Perhaps no one outside of Venezuela or Cuba should...
Juliette McIntyre, Adelaide University and Tamsin Phillipa Paige, Deakin University The United Nations turned 80 in October last year; a venerable age for the most significant...
Donald Rothwell, Australian National University The January 3 US military operation in Venezuela seizing President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Adela Flores de Maduro, was...
Andrew Gawthorpe, Leiden University Venezuela’s president, Nicolás Maduro, has been apprehended and flown to the US where the US attorney-general has announced he will face charges...
Has the Fed fixed the economy yet? And other burning economic questions for 2026 D. Brian Blank, Mississippi State University and Brandy Hadley, Appalachian State University The...
Deepfakes leveled up in 2025 – here’s what’s coming next Siwei Lyu, University at Buffalo Over the course of 2025, deepfakes improved dramatically. AI-generated faces, voices and...
EU agrees €90 billion loan to Ukraine, but squabbles over frozen Russian assets expose the bloc’s deep divisions Richard Whitman, University of Kent; Royal United Services Institute...
ByteDance’s agreement to sell TikTok puts app’s algorithm in the spotlight – a social media expert explains how the ‘For You’ page works and what’s to come...
From record warming to rusting rivers, 2025 Arctic Report Card shows a region transforming faster than expected Matthew L. Druckenmiller, University of Colorado Boulder; Rick Thoman, University...
Australia is reeling from the worst terrorist attack on home soil. Could it have been prevented? Greg Barton, Deakin University With 15 civilians and one gunman dead...
‘An act of evil antisemitism’: at least 16 dead in terrorist attack on Bondi Beach Alexandra Hansen, The Conversation; Amanda Dunn, The Conversation; Judith Ireland, The Conversation,...
AI’s errors may be impossible to eliminate – what that means for its use in health care Carlos Gershenson, Binghamton University, State University of New York In...
New US national security strategy adds to Ukraine’s woes and exacerbates Europe’s dilemmas Stefan Wolff, University of Birmingham and Tetyana Malyarenko, National University Odesa Law Academy Ukraine...
