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Our relationship with China is back in the spotlight as Parliament resumes this week; The remarkable rise of Indonesian president Joko Widodo; Hugh Mackay on finding one's authentic 'inner self'.

Campuses today are more like ghost towns so how will the higher education sector adapt to the effects of coronavirus? The perfect fascist: a story of love, power and morality in Mussolini’s Italy.

Has COVID-19 signalled the end of the American era? Professor Wade Davis argues that the virus reveals what America has become, and even if President Donald Trump is defeated, a profoundly polarized nation may not be able to find a way forward.

Bruce Shapiro gives a preview of the Republican Convention, Sarah Posner explains why white evangelicals support Trump and James Boyce on the centuries old fight for the Fens, England's lost wetlands

Buck-passing has become the order of the day in Canberra; What the disturbing pattern of political poisonings says about Putin's Russia; The Australian judge and politician who served as the inaugural Chief Justice of Australia.

Bougainville's election, PNG and independence; who can save the Uyghurs from genocide; is Jared Kushner Trump's most dangerous enabler?

Is it the end of the line for Alexander Lukashenko? Former British Ambassador to Belarus, Nigel Gould-Davies, assesses the situation of the man known as 'Europe's last dictator'. Claudio Saunt examines the history of Native dispossession in America. Who was the real Senator Joe McCarthy ? Louis Menand discusses the man and the myth.

Bruce Shapiro reports on the Democratic National Convention, Ian Johnson on being kicked out of China and James Ball on how Internet companies can be reined in.

Laura Tingle asks whether political lynchings should be a priority right now, and former prime minister Kevin Rudd warns that US-China tension could lead to 'hot war'.