The march to the 2024 Presidential elections continues apace with the Super Tuesday primaries and Supreme Court deliberations. Bruce Shapiro unwraps all the latest from the USA.

Guest: Bruce Shapiro, contributing editor with The Nation magazine; Executive Director of the Dart Centre for Journalism and Trauma at Columbia University.

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Climate scientist Rob Jackson travelled the world in search of climate solutions and explains what he found and how we can feasibly return the atmosphere to pre-industrial times.   

Guests; Rob Jackson: Prof. of Earth Sciences Stanford University and author of Into the clear blue sky: the path to restoring our atmosphere. Pep Canadell: Chief Research Scientist, CSIRO Environment

Hope for the climate and for restoring the atmosphere

Besides launching rockets at Israel after Israel attacked its embassy in Damascus, Iran has shown remarkable restraint when it comes to intervening in the war on Gaza. Ali Ansari argues that apart from some notable - and extreme - exceptions, Iran has a long history of support for the state of Israel and has historically hosted a large community of Jews. 

Ali Ansari, Professor of Iranian History at the University of St. Andrews. He is the author of ‘Modern Iran Since 1797: Reform and Revolution.’

The lost history of Iranian Jews could explain Iran's restraint over Gaza

Phillip Adams takes a look back through the history of philosophy to understand why it’s become one of the most male dominated areas of the humanities. 

Guest: Regan Penaluna is the Brooklyn-based author of How to Think Like a Woman: Four Women Philosophers Who Taught Me How to Love the Life of the Mind, published in Australia by Allen and Unwin.

Why so many women philosophers are forgotten and what to do about it

For 40 years, Amit Shah has been Narendra Modi’s right-hand man. Today, Amit Shah is India’s second-most powerful figure, so why don’t we know anything about him? 

Guest: Atul Dev - fellow at Columbia Journalism School in New York who wrote this profile of Amit Shah for The Guardian.

Who is Amit Shah? Modi's right-hand man

It thrived in the age of the dinosaur but today only a small isolated colony exists. How is the Wollemi Pine coping with its exposure to modernity and what is the future for this ancient species?

Berin Mackenzie: Research Scientist, NSW Dept. of Planning Industry and Environment.

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