• Peter Martin

What's the best thing to do when you are faced with one of those gut-wrenching decisions like whether to quit your job or have a baby or end a relationship?

• COMMENT
• Peter FitzSimons

The New York Times ran an editorial this week calling on Republican vice-presidential candidate Mike Pence to convince Trump to stand down

• Mark Kenny

There's a huge difference between good debt and bad debt, writes Mark Kenny.

• AUGUST 14

Guy and Jules Sebastian's charitable donation to women's refuges is inspirational.

• Julia Baird

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.

• COMMENT
• Frank Brennan, Tim Costello, Robert Manne, John Menadue

There is a way for Australia to escape the asylum-seeker impasse.

• Garry Linnell

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.

• Dina Brawer

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.

• COMMENT
• Kim Arlington

The backflips. The exaggeration. The tiny hands.

• Richard Glover

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.

• AUGUST 13

I'm with Scott Morrison on blocking the sale of Ausgrid to Chinese interests.

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.

A mysterious object spotted in the harbour

• COMMENT
• Jessica Irvine

Cheaper goods and better services are just some of the reasons it can pay to reveal ourselves online.

• Philip Drew

What should we think of the massive upgrade of Australia's most famous building asks architect Philip Drew.

• Sean Nicholls

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.

• COMMENT
• Lindsay Murdoch

Why have those with the ultimate responsibility for the slaying of 1400 Timorese never been brought to justice?

• Stan Grant

Journalist Stan Grant explains his love of literature adn why he doesn't want to go into politics.

Fairness in the budget context is tricky. Australians are willing to tolerate financial pain as long as it spread reasonably.

• AUGUST 12

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.