The Hillsborough inquest verdict; when innovation fails - who fixes the mess? And meet the neurologist who hacked his own brain.

Libya's chaos and the Migrant surge into Europe. Will Donald Trump's success as presidential candidate split the Republican party? And on the 30th anniversary of the meltdown at the Chernobyl nuclear plant, how radiation continues to contaminate the environment.

Bruce Shapiro on the current state of the union; the fiery protests on South African campuses; the colourful personalities of the forthcoming elections in the Philippines.

Aside from mateship and larrikinism Australia also has a humanitarian tradition which was highlighted by the Great War; the story of the Templars, a German, Christian, Palestinian, Australian community.

Political donations and the Liberal Party .Taxing the rich , a history of Fiscal fairness . Loose Nukes,has the threat of Nuclear terrorism increased after the attacks by Islamic state group in Brussels?

Bruce Shapiro on the surprising New York primaries; author Donna Leon on her fictional detective Guido Brunetti; Barbara Blackman looks back on an artful life

The war we forgot about; big, bad banks and what to do about them.

Laura Tingle on the DD and the GG; a murder, a mine and a whole lot of questions about Australia's interests in South Africa; Elizabethan England's relationship with the Islamic world.

An agreement between the EU and Turkey has surprised observers, concerned advocates and resulted in detentions, deportations and tensions at Europe’s borders. But will it end the European migration crisis that has Greece at its heart? A new biography tells the story of Alan Moorehead, Australian journalist and popular historian. The trouble among the Sherpas.

Gary Sernovitz and Tim Flannery on the fury over fracking; Ian Buruma on his memoir of his grandparents, caught between being British, German and Jewish.