January
- Opinion
- Antisemitism
Is the writing on the wall for Australia’s Jewish community?
The next election will be the most consequential in the history of Australia’s Jews. My community can’t endure another three years of this hatred.
- Robert Gregory
December 2024
- Opinion
- US Votes 2024
A Nobel Prize winner asks: Is there a way out of the grim place we are in?
Resentment can put bad people in power, but in the long run it can’t keep them there. Hopefully.
- Paul Krugman
November 2024
- Opinion
- Australian economy
Risk of a rate rise is passing, but cuts are not on the agenda
The RBA has an important job this week in communicating how inflation is behaving behind the distortions caused by government subsidies.
- Warren Hogan
October 2024
ABBA, Radiohead members join 10,500 artists in AI data-grab protest
An open letter from musicians, Hollywood actors and a Nobel-prize winner call unlicensed data scraping a threat to their livelihood.
- Nitasha Tiku
- Opinion
- Global economy
As Nobel Prize winners prove, strong institutions are good for us
The 2024 gong in economic sciences went to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James Robinson. Their studies have vital lessons for today’s democracies.
- Richard Holden
Nobel Peace Prize goes to anti-nuclear group
The prize was awarded to Nihon Hidankyo, a Japanese organisation that campaigns for an end to nuclear weapons.
- Mike Corder and Elena Becatoros
‘Godfather of AI’ wins Nobel Prize
The Nobel for Physics has gone to scientists John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton, who was widely credited as a pioneer of artificial intelligence.
- Niklas Pollard and Johan Ahlander
MicroRNA pioneers win Nobel Prize for medicine
US scientists Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun discovered tiny pieces of genetic material that could help detect and treat disease.
- Daniel Niemann, Maria Cheng and Mike Corder
- Opinion
- Jobs
Why it’s important to have an early alphabet surname
In the absence of quantitative signs of performance, the urge for recognition can make people obsess about what appear to be deeply trivial signs of success.
- Pilita Clark
September 2024
- Opinion
- Global economy
What Taylor Swift and Oasis can teach us about the economy
The music industry’s shift from product to performance foreshadows a widespread move towards intangible assets in the wider economy.
- Andy Haldane
August 2024
Bangladesh protesters back Nobel laureate for government role
Protesters have called for Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus to be named chief adviser of a new interim government after PM Sheikh Hasina fled the country.
- John Reed, Benjamin Parkin and Lucy Fisher
March 2024
February 2024
The 4½-hour podcast you’re missing out on
Spotify says Gen Z want shorter podcast episodes and more lighthearted content, but that hasn’t stopped others listening to 4.5-hour epics featuring Ken Henry.
- Gus McCubbing
November 2023
Henry Kissinger, US diplomat and Nobel winner, dies at 100
He was a pivotal US secretary of state under presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, who oversaw America’s involvement in and withdrawal from the war in Vietnam.
- Updated
- Tony Diver
Swedish sodium-ion battery breakthrough could cut reliance on China
Northvolt has developed a sodium-ion battery that has no lithium, cobalt or nickel – critical metals that manufacturers have scrambled to obtain, leading to price volatility.
- Richard Milne
October 2023
- Opinion
- Gender pay gap
‘Greedy work’ and the gender pay gap
Harvard University professor Claudia Goldin, who won the Nobel Prize for economics, argues that “greedy jobs” make it difficult to close the gender pay gap.
- Karen Maley
- Opinion
- Opinion
Nobel Prize winner explains the gender pay gap
Claudia Goldin of Harvard won the prize in economics for her path-breaking work on women’s labour-market outcomes.
- Richard Holden
Jailed women’s activist Narges Mohammadi wins Nobel Peace Prize
Iranian authorities have repeatedly imprisoned Narges Mohammadi as she fights for women’s rights in the heavily oppressive regime.
- Jon Gambrell and Mike Corder
COVID-19 vaccine pioneers win Nobel Prize for Medicine
Katalin Kariko and Drew Weissman pioneered the mRNA technology that led to the development of the Moderna and Pfizer inoculations.
- Naomi Kresge and Kati Pohjanpalo
Europe’s war on carbon goes global as border tax comes into play
The mechanism has already faced pushback from the EU’s major trading partners including Russia and China, who argue that it undermines the principles of free trade.
- Ewa Krukowska