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International Making sense of Meloni James Panichi 2 November 2022 Labelling Italy’s new prime minister a fascist misses the longer-term significance of her rise to power — and some shrewd decisions since she got the job National Affairs The above-the-liners Paul Rodan 30 September 2022 Short-sighted political calculus has preserved a seriously undemocratic upper house in Victoria Books & Arts Flame wars Ryan Cropp 12 September 2022 Have Waleed Aly and Scott Stephens mistaken a symptom for the cause? Books & Arts Can-do communalism Hamish McDonald 3 December 2021 As Australia “rediscovers” India yet again, are its secular forces starting to push back?

Books & Arts The return of the -isms Paul ’t Hart 3 April 2019 How resilient are Western democracies? Two new books have different answers Books & Arts Towards a second democratic revolution Paul ’t Hart 11 February 2019 Books | What France’s yellow jacket protestors may be trying to tell us   National Affairs The ACCC’s plan to reshape the media landscape Margaret Simons 11 December 2018 Can government rise to the challenge thrown down by the regulator? From the archive What’s love got to do with it? Stephen Mills 12 October 2018 Like Martin Luther King, philosopher Martha Nussbaum wants to take the anger out of democracy

Correspondents Duterte opens up a new front Norman Abjorensen 10 November 2017 Letter from Manila | Even the highest reaches of the law might not be immune to Rodrigo Duterte’s assault on accountability Correspondents “We made it impossible for them to steal our votes again” R. Tousi 7 July 2017 Despite the tough Middle Eastern neighborhood and internal resistance, Iranians continue to seek greater freedom and equality National Affairs Anarcho-Marxist claptrap and the rule of law Peter Mares 17 March 2017 Injustices sometimes need to be resisted unlawfully, as critics of Sally McManus should know International Does history end with Canada? Grant Wyeth 15 March 2017 One country shows how liberal democracies can avoid backsliding