Don't turn Muhammad Ali into a sanitised caricature
We're left with a man of inordinate courage who made some awful mistakes, was sincere enough to admit them, but at every moment was prepared to pay the price of his convictions.
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Waleed Aly
Waleed Aly is co-host of Ten's The Project and is a lecturer in politics at Monash University. He writes fortnightly for Fairfax.
It's impossible to define what this election is really about
There are flashpoints – negative gearing, maybe some health funding, possibly even boats – but there's no central, definitive theme.
Khan's London a symbol of a working democracy
If Donald Trump is elected president of the United States, London's new mayor would be barred from entering the country because he's a Muslim.
Labor can’t deny its role in Manus Island tragedy
‘Stopping the boats’ was a bipartisan policy and both sides of politics are responsible for its monstrous outcomes.
Against the odds the stars line up for Labor
Increasing inequality has allowed Labor to start doing something it hasn't done for decades - articulate a worldview.
Why Australia lies to itself about its Indigenous history
Debate about Aboriginal history in Australia always descends into hysteria because it bruises our misplaced national pride.
The slow-motion death of conservative politics
The disruption wreaked by Tony Abbott is an echo of the disruption that besets conservative parties worldwide.
Nauru: How long can we keep lying to ourselves?
The history of asylum seeker policy in Australia will be remembered as a story of how successive governments legislated their lies to justify a world of make-believe borders and compliance.
When Islamic State is the lesser of two evils
Islamic State is being damaged by the US-led bombing campaign but civilians under the regime are finding it less fearsome than the alternatives.
Arch conservatives offer nothing but guff
Abbott and Trump are not intelligently discussing Islam, they’re just demonstrating that their brand of politics is fast collapsing.
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