The Monthly2d
It was a Caramello Koala that did them in
Economist and contributor to The Saturday Paper Peter Martin, on the “illusory” discounts and how a Cadbury Caramello Koala helped fuel the outrage. There are hundreds of angry posts on X, TikTok and ...
The Monthly3d
Myopic vice
If the US vice-presidential debate was refreshingly civil, the candidates avoided much discussion of domestic and ...
The Monthly3d
A reflection on the process and burden of creating an imagined future during a time of climate crisis and existential dread
Henry James is reputed to have said that when you tell a dream, you lose a reader. I’ve never been convinced of that view. But then, I grew up on the vision stories of the Old Testament: Jacob ...
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A report from the border of Lebanon and Syria
Michelle Jasmin Dimasi on the reality of life in Lebanon right now and why thousands of people, including Syrian refugees, are fleeing back into Syria. When Hezbollah’s leader, Hassan Nasrallah, was ...
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Children of the intervention
Media stories about Alice Springs emphasise lawlessness and dysfunction, but on the ground it is a community let down by successive government failures “They did this, not us!” It’s what Aunty Pat ...
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How the assassination of Hezbollah’s leader will reshape the Middle East
Middle East correspondent for The Economist Gregg Carlstrom on Hassan Nasrallah’s legacy and what his death means for Lebanon, and for Israel. The leader of Hezbollah has been killed in an Israeli ...