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What to expect from the last two weeks of the US Presidential campaign, the influence of right wing talk back radio in American political life and redefining and reconnecting communities in Australia

Corruption scandals once again take centre stage as Senate Estimates kick off in Canberra; Protestors are calling for radical change in Thailand, in defiance of authorities; Richard Flanagan talks about his waking dreams and nightmares.

As COVID cases rise in UK Ian Dunt assesses the political response. Bret Gustafson considers how fossil fuels have changed Bolivia and what's at stake in this weekend's election. In his new memoir, Beyond the Newsroom, Geoff Kitney looks back some of the big stories he covered during his fifty years as a journalist.

Bruce Shapiro on the latest on the US election, what is behind the current gold frenzy and the German botanist who gathered an Australian collection

Now that the dust has settled, what can we make of the Federal Budget? And, a new book of essays contemplates ideas for a national reconstruction, rather than simply a restoration, in the wake of the pandemic.

The latest work by British author Martin Amis, Inside Story: How to Write, takes the death of his closest friend, Christopher Hitchens, as the starting point for this book. Along the way we meet other vibrant characters who have helped define Martin Amis - from his father Kingsley Amis, to his hero Saul Bellow, from poet Philip Larkin to his stepmother, the novelist Elizabeth Jane Howard.

But ultimately he covers the hardest questions, such as how to live, how to grieve and how to die.

Amnesty International is forced to halt its operations in India; Journalist and author Sarah Smarsh on why Kansas shouldn't be dismissed as a red Trump-loving state; The life and crimes of the Australian bushranger self-styled 'Captain Moonlite'.

The consequences of President Trump's COVID-19 diagnosis, the Australians who fought in Mosul and the evolutionary benefit of laughter.