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When he was invited to work for Gough Whitlam in September 1967, Race Mathews was thirty-two, a teacher and Education Department speech therapist, married with three...
Carrie Lowry Schuettpelz is a member of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina through her mother, whose father was Lumbee and mother German. Her own father...
India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party hit a bump in the road in 2024 when it lost its majority in the Lok Sabha general elections, held between...
Years ago, at the beginning of a sojourn in South Africa, I heard an elderly woman use the word “picannin” to describe an African child. Picannin,...
In June 1934, at home on Moscow’s Volkonskaya Street, Boris Pasternak received a fateful phone call from the Soviet leader, Joseph Stalin. “What do you think...
Many countries have been roiled in recent years by what is often called a “populist wave.” In the Anglophone world, this new era began in 2016...
It was 2014, Peter Dutton was health minister, and the Abbott government’s first budget announced that concession-card holders and other bulk-billed patients would now be charged...
It was 2014, Peter Dutton was health minister, and the Abbott government’s first budget announced that concession-card holders and other bulk-billed patients would now be charged...