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Presidential power, and its limits
Michael Gill
9 October 2024
Canny coalition-building fuelled the ascendancy of Indonesia’s Joko Widodo. But does his chosen successor represent continuity or change?
Books & arts
Could this be how it sounded in Mozart’s time?
Andrew Ford
8 October 2024
Authenticity isn’t quite the right word for what Neal Peres Da Costa is aiming to achieve
Books & arts
Imperial reckoning
Ann Curthoys
8 October 2024
A new collections of essays critiques a high-profile defence of the British Empire
Books & arts
A chasm of need
Alecia Simmonds
4 October 2024
A new account of Ghislaine Maxwell’s trial focuses on the victims of an unfathomed perpetrator
Books & arts
Mao’s suave controller — or enabler?
Linda Jaivin
1 October 2024
Once described as the Zelig of Chinese politics, Zhou Enlai had an uneasy relationship with the Great Helmsman
National affairs
Getting schooling wrong
Dean Ashenden
27 September 2024
The
Monthly
and the
Saturday Paper
are campaigning for fairer school funding. But are they missing the deeper story?
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National affairs
National affairs
Antitrust’s Big Tobacco moment
James Panichi & Ryan Cropp
25 September 2024
Has Big Tech’s big-spending campaign against competition law come to a university near you?
National affairs
There’s a Wills but is there a way?
Peter Brent
24 September 2024
Bob Hawke’s old seat is among the Greens’ best prospects, but the redistribution isn’t quite the gift it looks
National affairs
The enemy within
Mark Baker
17 September 2024
The government wants to rule a line under criminal behaviour in the military, but internal resistance remains strong
National affairs
Australia’s failed jobs experiment
Mike Steketee
16 September 2024
The Keating government’s changes to employment services – intensified by its Coalition successors — have bred inefficiency and fragmentation
National affairs
Increasing JobSeeker is good economics
Adam Triggs
3 September 2024
The arguments against a rise in JobSeeker have proliferated, but none of them stands up to scrutiny
Essays & reportage
Essays & reportage
Monumental silence
Dean Ashenden
10 October 2024
As the first anniversary of the Voice vote approaches, should we be thinking differently about truth-telling?
Essays & reportage
If you want to fix America, fix Detroit
Don Watson
25 September 2024
Once a symbol of greatness, the city’s uneven decline mirrors the national malaise
Essays & reportage
People-watching in Port Moresby
Gordon Peake
14 September 2024
Our correspondent reacquaints himself with the PNG capital, a place getting a lot more attention these days
Essays & reportage
Gaza at The Hague
Sophie Rigney
13 September 2024
What the International Court of Justice says about Israel’s treatment of the occupied territories and what it means for Australia
Essays & reportage
Is grown-up government enough?
Paul Strangio
3 September 2024
The puzzle of Anthony Albanese’s struggling prime ministership
Books & arts
Books & arts
No laughing matter
Philippa Hawker
2 October 2024
The Joker’s journey becomes a jukebox musical
Books & arts
Pelosi in power
Lesley Russell
24 September 2024
Memoirs of “a weaver at the loom” through four presidencies
Books & arts
Disability transcended
Jim Davidson
23 September 2024
A double biography reveals the creative partnership between Robert Louis and Fanny Stevenson
Books & arts
Musk’s mirror
Margaret Simons
20 September 2024
The erratic owner might have delivered the fatal blows, but he didn’t destroy Twitter on his own
Books & arts
Stylometric Shakespeare
Robert White
19 September 2024
An immense database of early modern plays reveals “a veritable avian community, a magpie nest, each writer borrowing from each other”
International
International
Gathering storm
Tony Walker
3 October 2024
As the risk of region-wide war grows in the Middle East, the United States looks increasingly like an ineffectual bystander
International
Fractured consensus
Tony Walker
2 September 2024
As Israeli protesters take to the streets, news emerges that defence minister Yoav Gallant has clashed again with Benjamin Netanyahu
International
Lords of the wasteland
Hamish McDonald
30 August 2024
A military analyst and an economist see Myanmar’s junta heading towards a desperate fight for survival
International
In Bangladesh, a Nobel laureate’s final act
Thomas Kean
21 August 2024
The rebellion that put Muhammad Yunus at the helm should prompt reflection in Canberra and other foreign capitals
International
And now what do we do?
Hamish McDonald
15 August 2024
Le Parisien
’s headline captures the post-Olympic challenges facing France’s new left-dominated government, not least in New Caledonia
Correspondents
Correspondents
Germany’s new normal
Klaus Neumann
1 October 2024
Why have Germans suddenly joined the far right in opposing immigrants?
Correspondents
It’s not just police who police
Nic Maclellan
20 September 2024
An Australian plan to improve policing in the Pacific deals with just one element of the islands’ crime and conflict problem
Correspondents
Kamala Harris is good at this
Bill Scher
12 September 2024
The vice-president laid out her plans for the future while Donald Trump was caught in a tangle of past grievances
Correspondents
November’s coat-tailers and ticket-splitters
Lesley Russell
27 August 2024
While Harris and Walz capture the headlines, congressional seats are being closely fought in key states
Correspondents
Kamala Harris redraws the political lines
Bill Scher
24 August 2024
In her acceptance speech, the Democratic nominee sought to flip the script on patriotism, inflation and immigration