Our very own Max Chandler-Mather on how decades of neoliberal politics have crippled Australia’s ability to respond to COVID-19. Vote for this guy I reckon.

Tim Robertson on the housing crisis in one of the world’s most liveable cities. “For the generations systematically locked out of homeownership, Darryl’s abiding belief that a man’s home is his castle is a meaningless cliché. Castles are fortified—they can’t simply be taken.”

Tariq Ali on the end of the forever war in Afghanistan. “The brilliantly lit Green Zone was always surrounded by a darkness that the Zoners could not fathom.”

An American veteran on how the whole war was bullshit. “I remember going through the phones of the people we detained and finding clip after clip of Bollywood musicals, women singing in fields of flowers.”

How the Red Cross raised half a billion dollars for Haiti and only built six homes.

Jeremy Gilbert on developing a theory of solidarity.

What’s going on with China’s archaeology boom? “Scientists believe it came from a Bronze Age kingdom called Gushu, a place so mysterious that people online began to theorise that the artefacts had belonged to an alien civilisation.”

What’s wrong with medieval pigs in video games?

This poem about throwing a tantrum in a supermarket, I like it.

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