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Paid parental leave is actually quite a conservative policy that erodes women’s rights and entrenches gender division. Just look at Sweden’s generous scheme for evidence of that.

Claims that it would be easier for the US to extradite Julian Assange from Sweden than from the UK don’t stack up. Swedish legal academic Mark Klamberg explains why.

It’s possible to be take allegations of s-xual misconduct against Julian Assange seriously, while still being concerned about the US government campaign against him.

The behaviour of multiple governments toward Julian Assange undermines the argument that he’s not the target of a campaign.

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Julian Assange’s fear of being extradited to the US over allegations of political crimes may be misguided — but he should be alert to alternative legal challenges, Donald K. Anton writes.

Two justices, representing the near-pinnacle of English law have spent a more than a day considering the details of two one-night stands and a tackle rub undertaken nearly a year ago in a faraway city.

A pre-school in Sweden abandoned the use of male and female pronouns and doesn’t read traditional fairytales with strict gender stereotypes, in a bid to be completely gender-neutral.

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Assange’s defenders need to talk about a process of control, exception and rendition that is using not abnormal state processes, but normal ones to achieve their ends, turning the world into one huge airport security scanner.

It is not Julian Assange that is on trial here but Sweden and its reputation as a modern and model country with rules of law, writes Melbourne barrister James D. Catlin who acted for Julian Assange in London in October.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s Swedish lawyer Bjorn Hurtig has described his warrant request as “exaggerated” and “out of proportion”.

The general election held in Sweden over the weekend has prompted a rash of “too close to call” cliches from media commentators, with the most recent polling suggesting a “nail-biting” clash between the country’s centre-right and far-right political parties.

With the re-opening of investigations into rape charges levelled at Julian Assange, the enigmatic and all-too-fascinating public face of Wikileaks, the event has now officially entered the territory of farce but the consequences for Assange may well be deadly serious.

Infamous whistleblower website WikiLeaks has found ideological and technical support in The Pirate Party, a Swedish pro-privacy anti-copyright group that also hosts the contentious BitTorrent website The Pirate Bay.

Stieg Larsson’s book trilogy depicts a different side to the Swedish utopia of functional furniture and a broad welfare system. But is Larsson’s world of corrupt police, violent drug dealers and amoral wealth that far from the truth?

If there’s two things Sweden is great at, it’s functional-yet-affordable DIY furniture and sports involving beanies and subzero temperatures. But can you tell their lounge suites from their luge competitors?

Andrew Brown’s account of the most successful social democracy in his book Fishing In Utopia - Sweden and the Future That Disappeared serves as a prism for the political questions we face.

A Swedish factory has been fined after a worker was attacked by one of its manufacturing robots which “suddenly came to life” and grabbed hold of his head.

Mandatory sex education classes for 14-year-olds has angered Muslim immigrants in Sweden.

An appeal for a retrial of the Pirate Bay trial on the grounds that the original judge was too biased has been quashed by the Swedish Appeal Court.