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Countries like North Korea and Russia are developing ever-more sophisticated tactics to dodge sanctions enforcement. Listen to The Conversation Weekly podcast.
In his new book, Cree behavioural scientist Louis Busch walks readers through teachings from several prominent Indigenous Knowledge Holders to reveal how suffering can provide both personal insight and communal strength.
How the deadly Nepal floods caused damage up to 100km away from a collapsed glacier.
In her new book, media and technology academic Nicolette Little examines the impact of five Canadian grassroots multi-media projects.
Listen to The Conversation Weekly podcast to hear Philip Brown and Kirsty Fairclough discuss Manchesterism, the political philosophy of Andy Burnham.
Listen to intellectual property expert Graeme Austin talk about the legal routes celebrites are using to fight back against AI deepfakes.
Climate expert Ioana Colfescu talks to The Conversation Weekly podcast about predicting the impact of El Niño.
Economist Rosa Abraham talks to The Conversation Weekly podcast about a new youth protest movement whose symbol is a cockroach.
Adolescent health expert Susan Sawyer talks to The Conversation Weekly podcast, six months on from Australia’s social media ban for under 16-year-olds.
Listen to football historian John Sloop trace the history of soccer in the US on The Conversation Weekly podcast.
The Bundibugyo strain of Ebola causing the ongoing outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo currently has no vaccine. The Conversation Weekly podcast speaks to two researchers working to develop one.
Geologist Scott Montgomery tells The Conversation Weekly podcast how strategic oil reserves work and why the U.S. keeps oil in underground salt caverns.
Economist Can Cinar talks to The Conversation Weekly podcast about how Javier Milei’s policies to cut inflation are making Argentinians feel poorer.
Sociologist Art Jipson talks to The Conversation Weekly podcast about how clamouring for the release of the Epstein files grew on fringe spaces of the internet.
The key figures from the federal budget, from negative gearing changes to tax cuts for workers.
Economist Jiao Wang talks to The Conversation Weekly podcast about the way China has diversified its export markets away from the west.
Catholic peacebuilding expert Gerard F. Powers talks to The Conversation about the just war tradition.
Hebrew studies expert Yaron Peleg tells The Conversation Weekly how Israel’s self‑image change from self‑reliance to aggressive militarism.
Hungarian political scientist Zsolt Enyedi speaks to The Conversation Weekly podcast about how Viktor Orbán lost power to Péter Magyar and what the result means for the European Union.
Sociologist Jordan Foster explains the origins of the PSL scale on The Conversation Weekly podcast.



















