The question of how to exercise global governance without the United States now turns to the G20. Since it was founded in 1999, the group of the world’s largest economies (now twenty-one of them, ...

Having sailed close to the financial wind in its first iteration, Apple Computer Company (founded by two Steves: Jobs and Wozniak), it became a poster child for American innovation, product excellence ...

In The Shrouds, David Cronenberg meditates on grief, death, technology and the erotic allure of conspiracy ...

Governments prioritise skilled migrants over family migrants because they’re perceived to lift productivity, fill labour market gaps and increase tax revenue. But the bias towards skills brings ...

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“In the physical act of composing with a pencil, I am making musical movements, pressing harder, pressing more lightly”: a page from the manuscript of Andrew Ford’s The Carnival of the Insects.

Kehlmann depicts choices made in the grimmest of circumstances, sometimes in the name of art. His central figure is G.W. (Georg Wilhelm) Pabst, the Austrian-born filmmaker probably best known for ...

An auspiciously timed amendment to departmental responsibilities highlights a long delay in federal electronic-surveillance reforms ...

For well over a decade, Australian policy-makers, journalists and commentators have been absorbed by the question of whether governments have the capacity for significant reform. Can they deliver the ...

A journalist since 1971, Graeme Dobell has been writing about international affairs for Inside Story since 2011.