By Alice Grundy, Visiting Fellow, School of Literature, Language and Linguistics, Australian National University
Hilary McPhee, who has died, aged 85, was already a legend when I started working in publishing, nearly two decades ago.
McPhee Gribble, the publishing house she founded with friend Diana Gribble in 1975, was the first home for some of Australia’s beloved authors, including Helen Garner, Gabrielle Carey and Kathy Lette. It also published Tim Winton’s Cloudstreet, voted the nation’s best novel by the…
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Thursday, October 1st 2026
The UN human rights chief and nine independent rights experts on Thursday called on authorities in Tennessee not to pursue any further attempts to execute Christa Pike, saying her case highlights multiple concerns surrounding the death penalty.
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By Sydney Allen
As part of Global Voices’ September Spotlight, “Protest in Democracy,” members of our community will be sharing examples of protest music past and present from their communities in this collaborative article.
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By Amin Al-Habaibeh, Professor of Intelligent Engineering Systems, Nottingham Trent University
Physics suggests slower cars use less petrol. But in the real-world, fuel consumption depends on much more than aerodynamic drag.
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By Catherine A. Sanderson, Poler Family Professor of Psychology, Amherst College
People may accept bad behavior – even sexual assault – when they overestimate how acceptable their peers think it is. But there are ways to undermine this thinking and make intervention more likely.
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By Austin Sarat, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science, Amherst College
The constitutional prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment has shaped legal discourse around failed executions, but courts have not stopped states from attempting to execute the same person again.
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By Amnesty International
Responding to the lower house of the Algerian Parliament adopting today legal amendments that expand the scope of the death penalty after more than three decades without any executions, Amnesty International’s Diana Eltahawy, Deputy Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa, said: “Today’s decision by the Algerian People’s National Assembly to approve these […] The post Algeria: Upper house of parliament must reject regressive legislation expanding the death penalty after 30 years without executions appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Evan Freeman, Evan Freeman, Hellenic Canadian Congress of BC Chair in Hellenic Studies, Simon Fraser University
The September 2026 removal of a sculpture from the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., has prompted criticism.
The move is understood by arts activists as reflecting United States President Donald Trump’s wider efforts to appropriate and rebrand the Center and curtail modern styles at federal facilities.
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By Gwendolyn Sasse, Einstein Professor for the Comparative Study of Democracy and Authoritarianism, Humboldt University Berlin, and Director, Centre for East European and International Studies (ZOiS); University of Oxford
Deirdre MacManus, Clinical Reader in Psychiatry, King's Centre for Military Health Research, King's College London
War-related trauma now affects most people in Ukraine and presents a major threat to the country’s resiliance in the face of continuing Russian aggression.
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By Pascal Vrticka, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Essex
Attachment is the term psychologists use for the most significant relationships that hold people’s lives together.
But what makes an attachment relationship different from all others? According to the pioneering American-Canadian developmental psychologist Mary Ainsworth, it must meet…
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