Israel's intention to annex the West Bank required, first, that law defined the land as Israeli sovereign. Once sovereignty was treated as a foregone conclusion, Palestinians became obstacles to be ...

On October 4, the Pentagon announced that "all bombers that were deployed to RAF Fairford have been re-deployed to their home stations in the United States." The department, wishing to blunt the ...

A huge study of over 220 million people from 200 countries found a dramatic global rise in obesity between 1990 and 2022.[2] Our genes haven't changed much in that time. Something else has. We're now ...

In this sense, the refinery is a critical conversion point between a natural resource and the usable forms of energy required by our modern industrial society. The distinction between raw crude oil ...

In Fichte's political philosophy, the state arises as the institutional embodiment of reciprocal recognition. The state is not primarily an apparatus of coercion, nor a mere social contract; it is the ...

Australia is already spending $50–70bn a year buying imported fuel. We need to ask how much additional cost is economically rational to pay to reduce strategic risk attached to that dependence, and ...

Newspeak's purpose was to restrict vocabulary, eliminate nuance, and embed ideology directly into the words we use. In contemporary Western discourse, no government has imposed an official Newspeak, ...

Smaller states can contribute at every stage of crisis: At the prevention stage, they can provide early-warning channels and maintain contacts that larger powers may find politically difficult to ...

The demographer is interested in war from a number of perspectives. These include, firstly population dynamics and distribution and the role they play in causing collective violence and aggression.

It is time to bring Europe’s blue waterways back to the centre of its connectivity agenda.

When it had seemed the Dockers held a winning lead over the Lions, the fans were dancing and cheering in the street over in West Australia, and the celebratory tune Wharfies Time started booming over ...

Investors are calling for AI development to be closely monitored and slowed down. They are demanding that the state regulate AI. The public is being sold a story about the dangers of AI to create a ...