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Why we need an emphasis on moderation rather than excess

Our socio-economic system is modelled on the wrong thing, greed. We need to change that.

Martin Luther King and Noel Pearson.

Why the Voice should have a dream as big as Martin Luther King’s

The Australia of 2023 is very different from the America of 1963, but the historic opportunity to remedy a racial wrong is unmistakably equivalent.

  • Nick Bryant
A passer-by walks under the 20-foot-high bronze sculpture “The Embrace,” a memorial to Dr. Martin Luther King jnr and Coretta Scott King, in the Boston Common.

‘Insulting and vulgar’ Martin Luther King jnr statue in Boston draws mockery, disdain

The sculptor says he found inspiration for the work in a photograph of the civil rights pioneer but the response so far has been less than enthusiastic.

  • Travis M. Andrews
Martin Luther King III, daughter Yolanda; and wife Arndrea Waters King.

Martin Luther King III says US must consider adopting Australian voting system

The son of one of the world’s most renowned civil rights leaders is open to adopting Australia’s voting system in the US to help protect democracy.

  • Farrah Tomazin
Donald Trump gestures as he boards Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House enroute to his Mar-a-Lago Florida Resort.

The Trump era is over, not with a bang but with an elegant troll

Left intellectuals have reacted with horror and bafflement to the 45th president's decision to commemorate an anti-Trump political theorist.

  • Parnell Palme McGuinness
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In 2020, a shattered mirror is being held up to a fractured country.

Altered States: how a superpower stopped being great

From Morning in America to American Carnage, the sweep of history suggests Donald Trump’s presidency is more culmination than aberration.

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America – a country in crisis.

Why did America stop being great?

In this week's episode of Good Weekend Talks, editor Katrina Strickland is joined by Nick Bryant, author and New York correspondent for the BBC, and Farrah Tomazin, a senior writer with The Age currently covering US politics and news, for a conversation about Donald Trump, American unrest and the upcoming election.

  • Konrad Marshall
Congress John Lewis last year.

John Lewis, racial equality champion and US Congressman, dies

Lewis was the youngest and last survivor of the Big Six civil rights activists, a group led by the Reverend Martin Luther King jnr.

  • Calvin Woodward
Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Reach out to Russia to manage the rise of China

In the long term it is an ambitious and revanchist China, not Russia, which poses the larger threat to the global order.

  • Dave Sharma

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