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National affairs It’s no time to lose our heads Paul Strangio 8 November 2024 What lessons should Labor take away from the Democratic Party’s defeat? National affairs Leaders and leaders Mark Baker 4 November 2024 Ahead of this week’s presidential election, billionaire newspaper owners have created a furore by blocking their editors’ endorsements National affairs Jason Clare’s dead parrot Dean Ashenden 24 October 2024 Labor’s “national approach” to schooling has failed. It’s time for a rethink National affairs Getting schooling wrong Dean Ashenden 27 September 2024 The Monthly and the Saturday Paper are campaigning for fairer school funding. But are they missing the deeper story?

Books & arts Utopia’s ghosts Antonia Finnane 12 November 2024 A Chinese-Australian artist captures the legacies of twentieth-century communism Books & arts AI through the looking glass Kurt Johnson 11 November 2024 Could artificial intelligence make us less human? Books & arts Targeting the Tirpitz Mark Baker 11 November 2024 Footage of the sinking of the German battleship filmed by an Australian crew reverberated around the world Books & arts Trade’s political problem Susan Stone 6 November 2024 A former trade negotiator sets out to improve trade’s profile and reputation

Correspondents A shift in the climate for COP29 Michael Jacobs 10 November 2024 As the UN conference opens in Baku, Azerbaijan, what difference will Donald Trump’s election make? Correspondents Trumped by the economy Bill Scher 8 November 2024 Americans still haven’t perceived their country’s strong economic recovery Correspondents Historic gender gap? Maybe. Maybe not Bill Scher 2 November 2024 Almost every presidential election since 1980 has had a double-digit gender gap. What do the polls suggest about next week’s? Correspondents Sri Lanka’s third way Alan Keenan 30 October 2024 Faced with difficult circumstances, a new leftist president has so far struck a deft balance