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When Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth summoned around 800 top military officers to Quantico, Virginia, this week, there was widespread speculation about mass firings, new geopolitical…

When Starr Dixon heard the Trump administration was floating a proposal last spring to eliminate Head Start, the 27-year-old parent in rural Michigan cried for a…

There is a big difference between being kind and being nice. I’m a cleaner, and I was emphatically told this by an elderly client. I was,…

Fifteen years ago, while perched on the back deck of my 1920s tin and timber Queenslander home in Brisbane, I realised I was being watched.I felt…

When I first suggested knocking on strangers’ doors and offering to write a poem for them, for nothing, on any subject of their choosing, the responses…

The first time I ate a khinkali was in 2003, and after one bite of that soupy, oversize dumpling, I became obsessed with the food of…

They say there’s no such thing as a free lunch. The idea? That everything has a cost, even if not financial. But I’m at my local…

How Travis and Taylor got togetherTwo years ago, American footballer Travis Kelce famously used the New Heights podcast – which he hosts with his brother Jason…

Taylor Swift did what she does best this week by breaking the internet with the announcement of a new album. But this time she did it…

When the author Amy Odell approached Gwyneth Paltrow’s publicist about her plans for a biography of the actor, Goop founder and wellness pioneer, she was told…