Greed is good is yesterday's mantra
For decades, belief in The Market as divine presence – guaranteeing fairness and quality and providing a universal template for everything. Now, at last, this is starting to reverse.
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Will Pence trump The Donald for presidency?
The New York Times ran an editorial this week calling on Republican vice-presidential candidate Mike Pence to convince Trump to stand down
A weary teacher's most spirited lesson
The distress of a talented woman who could no longer bear the load of teaching our littlest kids should make all of us stop and think.
Confessions of a road-rager
Sydney's streets are a fetid swamp, a stinking, seething morass of ineptitude where the fuel of choice is testosterone and the rules are set by the stupid and psychotic.
Religion must modernise or pay a price
Clinton. May. Merkel. Young girls today can point to role models at the highest levels of leadership in politics. But in the religious sphere, women's leadership remains contentious.
Why Donald Trump is like my preschooler
The backflips. The exaggeration. The tiny hands.
Listen up Mack, here's how to improve your sledging game
Stephen Potter is a world-renowned sledger. People in the public eye, from Mack Horton to Pauline Hanson, would do well to study his techniques.
Ausgrid: why China is not our cup of tea
I'm with Scott Morrison on blocking the sale of Ausgrid to Chinese interests.
Scott Morrison raises China fears in Ausgrid rebuff
The Rio drugs stoush gave the federal government cover for a decision that may well be justified on national security grounds, although we will never know for sure.
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A mysterious object spotted in the harbour
Census privacy debate: Why it can pay to reveal yourself online
Cheaper goods and better services are just some of the reasons it can pay to reveal ourselves online.
We need to keep the Sydney Opera House great
What should we think of the massive upgrade of Australia's most famous building asks architect Philip Drew.
Abbott's attack on Liberal lobbyists makes the case for a federal ICAC
Two years ago then Prime Minister Tony Abbott was unequivocal in his rejection of the need for a federal version of NSW's Independent Commission Against Corruption.
We're turning a blind eye to war crimes on our doorstep
Why have those with the ultimate responsibility for the slaying of 1400 Timorese never been brought to justice?
Stan Grant: why I'm a poet not a politician
Journalist Stan Grant explains his love of literature adn why he doesn't want to go into politics.
Glenn Stevens is right: politicians must reform
Fairness in the budget context is tricky. Australians are willing to tolerate financial pain as long as it spread reasonably.
Plenty can share blame for census fiasco
It is said that a picture is worth a thousand words, in which case the three pictures on the front page of the Herald are alone worth the entire day's edition.
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More bondage and discipline
Before the Big Bang
Imagine the world as seen by a peasant in the year 1016. Let us call him Alfred.
In a grim year, the Olympics are welcome
Even with the controversies over doping, the Olympics are proving an uplifting spectacle, and one we needed this year.
Jail not the answer for petty drug crimes
Australia could learn a lot from the fact that a number of American cities are successfully reducing the role of criminalisation in their drug policies.
Highlights
Pay no attention to big coal. Wind power is doing just fine
First it was dead birds, then noise. Now wind farms are being blamed for destroying the electricity market and pushing prices as high as $14,000 per megawatt hour.
The male breadwinner is an outdated relic
It is time to dispense with a relic lingering at the core of our economy: the male breadwinner.
I'm having the craziest dream and I can't wake up
I had a dream. There was an election but it was incredibly long. And cold.
Sydney's most over-rated destinations
Welcome aboard everyone, and thanks for joining us on today's Big Bus Tour of Sydney's Most Over-Hyped and Over-Rated.
I'm sorry about Sonia Kruger's stupid comments
As a Leader of the Caucasian Australian Community, I would like to condemn in the most unambiguous terms the inflammatory and ill-informed statements of some of the people which I so officially represent.
We need a revolution in renters' rights
It's time to stop viewing renters as second-class citizens. First up, the term "landlord" needs to get it in the neck.
Why I decided to rent my suburban dream
We need a property market that facilitates people to move to housing that best suits them. That's why I'm up to my 20th home.
Turnbull's potentially deadly moment
To say the knives have come out for him would be wrong. Some never put them away in the first place
How Turnbull was set up for his downfall
All the pictures of Malcolm Turnbull looking glum since Saturday night tell us a story we already instinctively knew: he fears he has miscalculated again.