Opinion

JENI O’DOWD: It’s not normal to influence little kids on gender ideas before many even know who they are.

EDITORIAL: Whoever is next to step into the world of Rose Garden luncheons and Washington fairways will need a hefty dose of tact and charm. A single-digit handicap wouldn’t hurt either. 

University academics can call for the destruction of Israel and trivialise terrorism and keep their job. But criticising immigration is a sure-fire way to get sacked.

EDITORIAL: We must disrupt the terrible pattern of anti-Semitism by intervening to stamp out hate speech before it has a chance to distort into violence. 

AARON PATRICK: Facing a legal ban, the extremist Islamist group inadvertently revealed why it is a threat to social cohesion.

BECK NEWTON: People are following the guidelines. The problem is that the local guidelines haven’t followed the evidence.

Donald Trump is an unashamedly polarising figure. Which is just how he likes it.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: White Americans might have thought themselves immune from ICE abuses, but the killing of Renee Nicole Good, a mother of three and widow of a military veteran, tests that assumption.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: Trump’s priority in capturing Maduro was not to restore democracy but to restore American oil companies’ dominance over Venezuelan oil extraction. 

EDITORIAL: Deep down, Anthony Albanese is still the Labor warrior who once declared ‘I like fighting Tories’.

JUSTIN LANGER: I am so glad my good friend has survived his serious health scare as he was a fascinating guy to play alongside.

DVIR ABRAMOVICH: For weeks, Jewish Australians have been trying to explain a fear that didn’t arrive overnight and didn’t come from nowhere.

LATIKA M BOURKE: When faced with the most consequential test of his prime ministership to date, Mr Albanese emerged a follower and not a leader. 

MENACHEM VORCHHEIMER: The royal commission must be to restore Australia to a place where no citizen — Jewish or otherwise — needs armed guards or fortified walls to live openly as who they are.

EDITORIAL: Mr Albanese should have called the inquiry a long time ago. But he has come to the right position in the end.