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For a special “best of” season running during March–April 2026 we asked long-time Inside Story contributors to choose one of their own articles and add a 2026 postscript. Here are their selections so far, in reverse chronological order…

Retrospective Sara Dowse 13 February 2014 Would bending be the bravest option for Israel?
Retrospective Sylvia Lawson 13 November 2013 Ivan Sen’s Mystery Road reviewed Retrospective Klaus Neumann 22 July 2013 Two cases from Europe reveal other ways of understanding irregular migrants Retrospective Iain Topliss 18 April 2013 The British illustrator’s weightless characters have moved into a world beyond books Retrospective Dean Ashenden 14 October 2012 All’s not necessarily well in the classroom – even when it happens to end well
Retrospective Dennis Altman 9 August 2012 Reports of Labor’s death are grossly exaggerated
Retrospective James Panichi 16 December 2011 Must Australian politicians “work tirelessly” for their communities or face electoral oblivion? Retrospective Jill Kitson 16 May 2011 Does Jane Austen teach us how to live? Retrospective Jock Given 23 September 2010 At the Imperial Palace, Human Nature is gearing up for two more years of “Celebration of Motown.” But it’s fibre-to-the-home further along The Strip that’s generating the… Retrospective Peter Mares 13 March 2009 All the evidence is in, yet the government has ordered another inquiry into the impact of gambling
Retrospective Peter Brent 16 February 2009 Malcolm Turnbull is playing the long game, but he mightn’t be leader when it counts Retrospective Tom Griffiths 16 February 2009 Testimony from the 1939 and 2009 fires reveals what we haven’t learnt from history