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Analysis of current events to the hottest debates in politics, science, philosophy and culture.

India is about to surpass China as the world's most populous nation - what does it mean for India's people? Plus, some fresh thinking about everything from how we measure economic growth, to architecture. Plus, the women and First Nations guides behind 'The Birds of Australia'.

Ian Dunt on Joe Biden's visit to Northern Ireland, US crime writer Don Winslow on why he abandoned his career to fight Donald Trump full-time and a tribute to two Bruces: legendary Australian cartoonist Bruce Petty, and former Australian diplomat to South Africa, Bruce Haigh. 

The Medici, the Borgias, the Habsburgs, the Bonapartes, the Kennedys, the Kims... we take a tour of the families that have changed the course of history. 

Meet the colourful collectors whose singular obsession is illuminated manuscripts, and hear the incredible story of the rebels who recorded forbidden music on x-rays in the USSR during the Cold War.

A landmark UN resolution represents a big step forward on climate justice, but at the same time Germany's powerful auto industry is pushing back against the EU's shift to electric. Plus, a fresh look at the world's most famous trade route, the Silk Road. 

Bruce Shapiro is back with the latest news on Donald Trump's impending arraignment. In a huge 48 hours, Finland has lost it's progressive young Prime Minister Sanna Marin and joined NATO - what does it mean for Finland and Europe? Plus: what is humanism, and could you be a humanist without knowing it? Author Sarah Bakewell tells all. 

Laura Tingle dissects the Liberal Party’s defeat in Aston, and remembers the remarkable Yunupingu, a warrior on Indigenous Rights. The US billionaires behind Israel's controversial new judicial oversight laws. And the history and politics of doing the laundry. 

Five Australian journalists were among the first to be embedded in a war mission, in WWII. And a celebration of some very simple inventions that led to sophisticated machinery and technology.

The Central Asian '-stans' have become the subject of a geopolitical tug-of-war between the US, China and Russia. Plus, what the political turmoil in Israel means for those in the West Bank, and the stones that have shaped human history.