The Free Birth Society was selling pregnant women a simple message. They could exit the medical system and take back their power. By free birthing. But Nicole Garrison believes FBS ideology nearly cost her her life. This is episode one of a year-long investigation by Guardian journalists Sirin Kale and Lucy Osborne

Since I first read Kristen Roupenian’s viral story, I’ve wondered: How did she know about me?

A Very Private School offers a clear-eyed, firsthand account of a culture of cruelty at the school Spencer attended in his youth and provides important insights into an antiquated boarding system. Drawing on the memories of many of his schoolboy contemporaries, as well as his own letters and diaries from the time, he reflects

A year-long investigation reveals how mothers lost children after being radicalised by uplifting podcast tales of births without midwives or doctors

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It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…

Voice-operated technology can’t cope with non-mainstream varieties of English.

The ‘Scandinavian sleep method’ is having a moment on social media. But what is it? And will it stop you fighting over the doona?

The complicated story of James Watson, whose landmark DNA discovery with Francis Crick was later overshadowed by his deeply offensive remarks

Their quest captured the imagination of the colony and became part of Australia’s foundation narrative. But it was a debacle led by an eccentric man with a poor sense of direction

It was one of those nights we wait all year for, the first night where you can go outside without a coat or a sweater. I walked up Lincoln Avenue after an uncommonly good production of Hamlet, and thinking many thoughts about the play. They’d gotten Hamlet right, which is rare enough that I should…

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I am not good at writing about my Jewish experience.

I am still writing this, eight days after I started.

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