The year ahead: Last year, the co-captain of the Black Ferns got married in secret, and received a Royal honour in public; this year she wants to give back Start your day with a curation of our top ...

Belonging is like food and water: it sustains life, Lianne Dalziel finds on reading Bariz Shah’s memoir about walking the edge of different worlds – from an Auckland prison to changing lives in ...

Rob Campbell reviews ‘The History of Ideas. Equality, Justice and Revolution’ by David Runciman and lays out his concerns for what’s coming – plus his one big wish for 2025.

As Winston Peters pivots from statesman to tub-thumping campaigner, can his party defy their history of getting turfed out of Government?

After a year beset with illness, Te Pāti Māori's former co-leader urges New Zealanders to take their wellbeing seriously ...

In a sea of content, Newsroom’s Parliament-based team makes their selection of (at least tangentially political) cultural ...

Cabinet has endorsed an ownership bid for the Whakapapa ski field and has agreed to loan Whakapapa Holdings up to $5 million to support its purchase. The funding is conditional on Whakapapa Holdings ...

Opinion: The main message of 'The Ritual Effect' by Michael Norton is that performing small rituals every day enhances wellbeing. Then there was the book Jo wanted to hate but didn’t ...

No literature of any value, or the teaching of it at university, is about 'indoctrination'. On the contrary, no single particular interpretation of the novel is privileged over another, writes Joanne ...

LockerRoom writer and former Olympian Sarah Cowley Ross' 24 reflections on a pretty darned fine 2024 for Kiwi women's sport.