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Sri Lanka’s Supreme Court voted yesterday to overturn the sudden and unilateral dissolution of the country’s Parliament by the President. It’s another dramatic twist as Sri Lanka slides further into constitutional crisis.
Michael Breen explains Sri Lanka’s ‘democracy deficit’, why there’s real doubt over who the legitimate Prime Minister is, and why the possibility of violence remains real.
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The Sri Lankan president’s sacking of the prime minister and installation of a former strongman has left the country in political limbo.
M.A. Pushpa Kumara/EPA
Michael Breen, University of Melbourne
Old political rivalries have boiled over in Sri Lanka's worsening political crisis. Some fear possible violence less than a decade after the end of a brutal 25-year civil war.
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Arts + Culture
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Peter Tregear, University of Melbourne
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (The Mastersingers of Nuremburg) is a long, complex work. An ensemble performance by Opera Australia transports Wagner’s 16th-century guild of mastersingers to a modern-day men’s club.
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Alex Broadbent, University of Johannesburg
Recent hoax papers in humanities don't show what they claim, but need to be taken seriously.
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Business + Economy
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Louis Volante, Brock University; John Jerrim, UCL
Conventional wisdom across much of the Western world says there's a strong link between education and upward social mobility. Really?
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Environment + Energy
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Jeremy D. Owens, Florida State University; Theodore R. Them II, College of Charleston
Drastic oxygen losses in the world's oceans millions of years ago coincided with mass extinctions. Scientists see this as a warning about how climate change could affect oceans today.
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Politics + Society
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Georgina Blakeley, The Open University
The questions raised by the region's failed bid for independence remain unanswered. And key figures remain in prison.
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Omar Safi, University of Portsmouth
A recent attack at the heart of the Tunisian capital highlights how regional security is on the precipice.
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J.M. Opal, McGill University
U.S. President Trump's former attorney revealed some ugly racist things his client has said. One of them - once again - speaks of "shit-hole" countries. We need to counter this false idea.
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