A self-described 'democratic socialist' crushed the field in the Democratic primary for NYC mayor. The forces of reaction are ...

Elie Wiesel may not have lived to see the latest devastating wave of antisemitism, but he did prepare us to confront it. Let ...

From the perspective of reproductive rights advocates, postmortem pregnancy is the bottom of a slippery slope down which anti-abortion sentiment has led America. It obliterates women’s autonomy, ...

AS RIC Hart tucks his six-year-old son, Hugo, into bed, there is only one bedtime story that he wants to hear – tales about ...

The postage stamp was once the quiet hero of every envelope but has now been relegated to philatelists’ albums. Tiny and dignified, stamps bore declarations of love, overdue apologies, and holiday ...

Charlie Munger didn't just think about legacy — he planned his entire life around it. The billionaire investor, who passed away in late 2023 just weeks shy of his 100th birthday, left behind decades ...

Surgeon Paterson was jailed for 15 years, later extended to 20 years, in 2017, after being convicted of wounding patients by ...

Anselm Kiefer's enormous paintings take Van Gogh's motifs and make them his own, but without the humanity and wonder of his ...

Taming death by taming life. To tame death, we must start by taming life. Let's pause amidst the frenzy of daily life to reflect on our lives. We can ask ourselves the following questions: ...

Euthanasia campaigner Philip Nitschke is pushing to bring three controversial new death devices to Australia, including a ticking-time bomb implant which turns lethal when a dementia patient ...

The small implantable ‘death switch’, which is 3cm high, 2cm wide and 0.3mm thick, is independently controlled by the user. The device starts beeping once it nears its expiry, or kill date.