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President Biden steps up his inflammatory Russia rhetoric, the legalities of the use of mercenaries in conflicts and the curious history of heaven, hell and everything in between.

Laura Tingle previews the federal budget 2022, Pakistan’s Prime Minister and former cricket celebrity Imran Khan faces a no confidence vote and historian Joan Beaumont recalls what it was like for Australians living through the dark and foreboding years of the Great Depression.

Eddie Gallagher took combat to extremes in Iraq. And the astronomer Avi Loeb on the Galileo Project which is looking for unidentified aerial phenomena and interstellar objects in our skies.

Ian Dunt reports on the latest gaffes from Boris Johnson, Carl Rhodes on why we should be wary of woke capitalism and Liz Harfull gives us a brief history of the Country Women's Association on its 100th anniversary.

Historic Supreme Court confirmation hearings are underway for Biden's nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson. The pros and cons of the lithium industry in Australia and Chile. And what it's like to grow up Sikh in Australia.

Bernard Keane on the SA election, Anatol Lieven on the real Russian elite and what a peace deal might look like and the Stasi poetry circle which tried to bring down capitalism through verse. 

Chandran Nair makes the argument that we need to acknowledge and then dismantle global white elitism and Wendy McCarthy talks about the challenges of her careers as a teacher, campaigner, board member and wife and mother.

Sarah Collard reports on the responses to the trial for the murder of Kumanjayi Walker, Professor mark Howden talks to the latest IPCC report and the expected impact on agriculture and Alice Pung explores the challenges of being a diverse voice in publishing.

Bruce Shapiro on President Biden's options as the war in Ukraine escalates; Australia's arts sector was one of the hardest hit by the pandemic and still faces a crisis. Plus, what can we learn about social cohesion from animals?

Laura Tingle on flood fury, petrol pain and defending Defence - how the PM has fared this week in politics. Financial markets expert Satyajit Das looks at the challenges facing Australia's economy as we emerge from the pandemic, and how covid has changed our language with Oxford English Professor, Simon Horobin.