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Black Lives Matter

November

This new Jaguar ad screams panic

A brand once redolent of speed, glamour and petrol has now resorted to car-less pap.

  • Ed Cumming

September

Samuelson Appau

DEI is no longer just about ethics, it’s about profits, academics say

Australian business schools are providing an increasing amount of diversity components to reflect a growing corporate demand.

  • Gus McCubbing

May

Donald Trump speaks during the Leadership Forum at the National Rifle Association annual convention in Dallas.

Trump pledges to be gun owners’ most ardent ally

The former president accepted the endorsement of the National Rifle Association, claiming that the right to bear arms was “under siege” by the Biden administration.

  • Jazmine Ulloa
Citadel founder Ken Griffin is backing Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.

Ken Griffin urges Harvard University to embrace ‘Western values’

The hedge fund founder who has given his alma mater more than $US500 million has slammed the pro-Palestinian protests sweeping colleges as “almost like performative art”.

  • Harriet Agnew

April

Pauline Hanson and Sue Chrysanthou, SC, outside the Federal Court in Sydney on Monday.

A judge may decide if Pauline Hanson is a white supremacist

The far-right senator’s career of racial commentary is on trial in the Federal Court.

  • Aaron Patrick
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January

Why business is dumping virtue signalling for metrics

American companies are changing their approach to diversity and inclusion to improve their return on investment.

  • Rana Foroohar
Tina Fey is often called the most powerful and influential woman in comedy.

How Tina Fey became ‘the most powerful woman in comedy’

The comedian has never kowtowed to cancel culture, but she has slightly reworked the musical version of her 2004 hit “Mean Girls” to acknowledge changing mores.

  • Stephen Armstrong

Who’s a ‘coloniser’? How an old word became a new weapon

In bitter debates from Israel to Africa to America, invoking a brutal history has become a powerful accusation.

  • Roger Cohen

November 2023

This bizarre synergy is often called the “Unholy alliance” among critics.

Diaspora politics Jews perfected is being turned against Israel

More than any other conflict, the public relations battle of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is fought through international diasporas.

  • Tanveer Ahmed

October 2023

Israelis take a different view of the Gaza war than many in the West.

Israel has no choice but to destroy Hamas

The Western world shirks difficult decisions out of misguided equivocating. Israel can have no such qualms.

  • Ramesh Thakur
Pro-Palestinian demonstrators during an “All Out For Palestine” protest in Times Square in New York on Friday.

Left’s take on Hamas stuns US Jews – and threatens Democrat split

Anti-Israel sentiment on university campuses and in street protests has sparked anger among a nation of people often aligned with the political left in the US.

  • Joshua Chaffin

September 2023

Enrique Tarrio

Proud Boys leader gets record 22-year sentence for Capitol riot

His sentencing comes as the Justice Department prepares to put Donald Trump on trial at the same courthouse in Washington.

  • Michael Kunzelman, Lindsay Whitehurst and Alanna Durkin Richer

February 2023

The demonstrations on Australia Day show that tensions are starting to rise over the Voice.

The Voice is national group therapy - not the help that’s needed

The new body may be a way for us all to cope with endemic problems. But it is not going to offer anything new or practical.

  • Tanveer Ahmed

January 2023

The image from video released on January 27 by the City of Memphis shows Tyre Nichols during a brutal attack by five Memphis police officers on Jan.

Video shows Memphis police officers kicking, beating Tyre Nichols

Tyre Nichols, a Black motorist stopped by Memphis police is seen pummeled into submission as five police officers deliver kicks, punches and baton blows in graphic video.

  • Alyssa Pointer and Brendan O'Brien

July 2022

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When a woman says ‘I don’t want a partnership’ start asking questions

King & Wood Mallesons boss Renae Lattey still believes in gender targets, even though her firm missed one for 2022.

  • Michael Pelly
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January 2022

No more working for jerks!

For almost two years, couches have been cubicles. Colleagues are instant message avatars. And people are reconsidering how much they should have to put up with from a boss.

  • Emma Goldberg
Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein’s long-time companion, was convicted of recruiting  young women for him.

When ignorance isn’t bliss: the real moral reckoning in Maxwell case

When it comes to abuse and what you should have known, ignorance is no excuse.

  • Sanford Goldberg and Chicago Tribune

December 2021

Across Los Angeles there have been 361 murders so far this year, up from 349 in 2020, the highest tally since 2008.

Crime wave knows no boundaries in Los Angeles

Armed security patrols are being stepped up as terrified residents fear for their safety in Beverly Hills after the shooting death of a music mogul’s wife.

  • Pete Samson

November 2021

Protesters in Chicago on Saturday evening (Sunday AEDT).

Biden is accused of slandering Rittenhouse

The US President is under fire for linking Mr Rittenhouse to ‘white supremacist and militia groups’ last year in a campaign video that attacked Donald Trump.

  • Rozina Sabur
Protesters in Chicago on Saturday evening (Sunday AEDT).

Windows smashed in Rittenhouse protest in Portland

Protests have been held in several other US cities nationwide over the verdict, including New York, Los Angeles and Chicago.

  • Staff reporters

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