Human rights lawyer Petra Molnar investigates the growing use of artifiicial intelligence at the world's borders. And Anthony Sharwood on the man behind Australia's highest mountain - the Polish general Tadeusz Kosciuszko. 

Ian Dunt reflects on UK Labour's Party Conference, while Jeremy Corbyn forms a new party of his own. Plus, Fintan O'Toole on how populists are weaponising victimhood and self-pity to undermine democracy. 

What are the Democrat and Republican ground game strategies in the lead up to election day? How Hong Kong is silencing the pro-democracy movement. And Houdini's visit to Australia. 

Karen Middleton, political editor of The Guardian Australia, on Peter Dutton's nuclear power speech today, and the new populism of the Greens. There are nine people vying the top job in Japan. And acclaimed journalist and author Elizabeth Kolbert on how much is real in the world of plant 'intelligence'.

Why are rates of suicide in the Australian veteran community so persistently high? And what did the CIA learn from Nazi Germany about psychedelics. 

While Wisconsin only provides 10 electoral votes in the US Presidential race, it is one of the key swing states in the upcoming election - how can it be won? There are high hopes for hydrogen in Australia's green energy future, but is it all hype? And could some of the abandoned mass transit systems of North America be revived?

The Public Service Commission is very sorry on behalf of the public service. Journalist Rick Morton updates on the Robodebt findings of the commission, plus more of what he has unearthed. Plus tea - with our without opium - has played a big role in the history and geopolitics of Iran. 

Political analyst Niki Savva says if it doesn't change course, Labor is set to lose its majority and become the first one term government since 1931. Two year's on from Mahsa Amini's killing for not wearing her hijab correctly, a new book argues the feminist uprising it sparked in Iran speaks of a significant cultural and generational shift in acceptance of the theocratic state. Plus the precarious world of outback opal mining. 

Eric Beecher looks back at some of the media dynasties through history including the Murdochs, how they use and abuse their power. And on Flinders Island in the Bass Strait, restoration work on the Aboriginal settlement Wybalenna has stalled. It is a significant cultural site where many Tasmanian Aboriginal people were sent in 1831. Only 47 survived.

Bruce Shapiro dissects the US presidential debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump. And art critic Sebastian Smee on how the dazzling light of Impressionism emerged from the darkness of 1870s France.