by Liaquat Ahamed | Aug 27, 2019 | Issue 1, Journal, News, Volume 18
In 1831, Alexis de Tocqueville, at the age of twenty-five, was sent by France’s Ministry of Justice to study the American penal system. He spent ten months in the United States, dutifully visiting prisons and meeting hundreds of people, including President Andrew...
by Andrew Baker, Richard Murphy | Aug 26, 2019 | Issue 1, News, Volume 18
A major priority for the French government in hosting the 2019 G7 summit at Biarritz was to combat inequality, both within advanced economies and between countries. But if the G7 were serious about tackling inequality, there is a need to tackle the ‘race to the...
by David Samuels | Aug 23, 2019 | Issue 1, Journal, News, Volume 18
Neil Young is crankier than a hermit being stung by bees. He hates Spotify. He hates Facebook. He hates Apple. He hates Steve Jobs. He hates what digital technology is doing to music. ‘I’m only one person standing there going, “Hey, this is [expletive]...
by Paul Barratt | Aug 22, 2019 | Issue 2, Journal, News, Volume 18
Why Australia shouldn’t be joining US action against Iran A crowning diplomatic achievement of the Obama Administration was the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action negotiated by the United States, Britain, France, Germany, Russia, China and Iran, under which Iran...
by Walter Shapiro | Aug 21, 2019 | Issue 2, Journal, News, Volume 18
Over the past four decades, the American political landscape has been littered with the wreckage of booster rockets from eagerly anticipated presidential campaigns that failed to successfully take off. Newsweek in 1983 just after the release of the film version of Tom...
by Evatt Foundation | Aug 14, 2019 | Issue 2, Journal, News, Volume 18
Nearly 80 per cent of working people have been injured, or become ill, or both as a result of their work, according to a survey released today by the ACTU, Australia’s peak body for working people. The same number of people say existing penalties for employers...
