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Science & Health

Why the British accepted evolutionary science and Americans didn’t

One hundred years after a Tennessee teacher named John Scopes started a legal battle over what the state’s schools can ...
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Art, Humour & Poetry

MBJ’s view

See current affairs through the eyes of cartoonist Matt Bissett-Johnson. Published 13 July 2025.
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Ethics & Religion

What is the ‘Seven Mountains Mandate’ and how is it linked to political extremism?

Vance Boelter, who allegedly shot Melissa Hortman, a Democratic Minnesota state representative, and her husband, Mark Hortman, on June 14, ...
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Law & Politics

Lee Kuan Yew’s insight into the fall of democracies

Long before Australia saw four sitting prime ministers deposed by their own parties between 2010 and 2018, before the United ...
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History

A century on from Scopes trial, America’s culture war over evolution and creationism rages on

The 1925 Scopes trial, in which a Dayton, Tennessee, teacher was charged with violating state law by teaching biological evolution, was ...
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Ethics & Religion

Cult survivors on a mission for meaningful change

Of all the difficult issues parliamentary inquiries have sought to gain insight into, the Victorian Parliament’s examination of recruitment methods ...
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