Why we need an emphasis on moderation rather than excess

Why we need an emphasis on moderation rather than excess

Our socio-economic system is modelled on the wrong thing,greed. We need to change that.

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Why the Voice should have a dream as big as Martin Luther King’s

Why the Voice should have a dream as big as Martin Luther King’s

The Australia of 2023 is very different from the America of 1963,but the historic opportunity to remedy a racial wrong is unmistakably equivalent.

  • byNick Bryant
‘Insulting and vulgar’ Martin Luther King jnr statue in Boston draws mockery,disdain

‘Insulting and vulgar’ Martin Luther King jnr statue in Boston draws mockery,disdain

The sculptor says he found inspiration for the work in a photograph of the civil rights pioneer but the response so far has been less than enthusiastic.

  • byTravis M. Andrews
Martin Luther King III says US must consider adopting Australian voting system
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Martin Luther King III says US must consider adopting Australian voting system

The son of one of the world’s most renowned civil rights leaders is open to adopting Australia’s voting system in the US to help protect democracy.

  • byFarrah Tomazin
The Trump era is over,not with a bang but with an elegant troll

The Trump era is over,not with a bang but with an elegant troll

Left intellectuals have reacted with horror and bafflement to the 45th president's decision to commemorate an anti-Trump political theorist.

  • byParnell Palme McGuinness
Altered States:how a superpower stopped being great

Altered States:how a superpower stopped being great

From Morning in America to American Carnage,the sweep of history suggests Donald Trump’s presidency is more culmination than aberration.

  • byNick Bryant
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Why did America stop being great?

Why did America stop being great?

In this week's episode of Good Weekend Talks,editor Katrina Strickland is joined by Nick Bryant,author and New York correspondent for the BBC,and Farrah Tomazin,a senior writer with The Age currently covering US politics and news,for a conversation about Donald Trump,American unrest and the upcoming election.

  • byKonrad Marshall
John Lewis,racial equality champion and US Congressman,dies

John Lewis,racial equality champion and US Congressman,dies

Lewis was the youngest and last survivor of the Big Six civil rights activists,a group led by the Reverend Martin Luther King jnr.

  • byCalvin Woodward
Reach out to Russia to manage the rise of China

Reach out to Russia to manage the rise of China

In the long term it is an ambitious and revanchist China,not Russia,which poses the larger threat to the global order.

  • byDave Sharma
When I look at America torn apart,I see my own family and Australia's history of racism

When I look at America torn apart,I see my own family and Australia's history of racism

Justice cannot be colour-blind,but we are not America and our streets,thankfully,are not battlegrounds.

  • byStan Grant
Fighting in the streets:a timeline of police violence and race riots in the US

Fighting in the streets:a timeline of police violence and race riots in the US

This timeline of major race riots since 1935 highlights only some of the flashpoints in which the anger of black Americans have boiled over to this point.