International
5 July 2025
A UN conference discovers the absence of the United States can be an opportunity rather than a hindrance
National affairs
23 June 2025
How Australia viewed the weekend bombing
National affairs
19 June 2025
As Iran and Israel wage war, big military parades are held in the United States and Britain
National affairs
6 June 2025
The looming hearing recalls cold war battles and a more recent courtroom defeat
International
14 May 2025
The benefits of thawing relations between Ahmed al-Sharaa’s government and the West could be undone by Israeli interference
Books & arts
13 May 2025
Could diplomacy have changed the course of postwar Chinese history?
International
27 April 2025
America played a less destructive role than feared at last week’s spring meetings of the World Bank and the IMF
National affairs
4 April 2025
Australia’s narrow escape from tariffs during Donald Trump’s first presidency created hostility that could complicate efforts to respond to his latest move
Books & arts
4 February 2025
The intelligencer who built Australia’s spy service
Essays & reportage
21 October 2024
Can the “brainy and agile” Penny Wong counter the power of US-centric defence and security agencies?
International
20 September 2024
An Australian plan to improve policing in the Pacific deals with just one element of the islands’ crime and conflict problem
Books & arts
19 September 2024
The great geopolitical struggle of our time, cold war 2.0, is cyber war and proxy war and tech war, economic face-off and nuclear brinkmanship
Other Voices
13 September 2024
Myths about the collapse of the Soviet Union are encouraging mistaken policies towards China
International
10 April 2024
Pressure is mounting among Israel’s allies for a long-term settlement
Books & arts
9 April 2024
How Vladimir Putin’s empire dream became Ukraine’s war and an international nightmare
Books & arts
30 March 2024
A major new series about the postwar world poses the inevitable question: has the cold war returned?
Books & arts
28 March 2024
An eighty-year retrospective from the American academic who changed the way nations attract and argue
National affairs
21 March 2024
Both countries got what they wanted out of Wang Yi’s visit to Canberra
Books & arts
21 March 2024
How a former Jehovah’s Witness activist became a secret intermediary between the Indonesian leader and the West
From the archive
1 December 2023
How does the former secretary of state feel about being called a war criminal?
Essays & reportage
5 October 2023
While the French president risks a new civil war just three hours’ flight from Australia, Canberra’s diplomacy remains muted
International
5 June 2023
The latest UN climate conference is under way in Bonn. But the real action might be elsewhere
Books & arts
16 May 2023
What happened when a diplomat teamed up with Sigmund Freud to analyse the president?
National affairs
4 May 2023
The government’s strategic review has left the commentariat puzzled
International
14 March 2023
Our correspondent casts a critical eye over an emerging German peace movement
Books & arts
21 February 2023
The real-world backdrop of Frank Moorhouse’s celebrated trilogy was alive with idealistic characters
Books & arts
3 October 2022
Two daughters profile a controversial father and an enigmatic mother against the backdrop of the growing bush capital
Books & arts
5 September 2021
Are China’s wolf warrior diplomats for real?
International
27 August 2021
Yesterday’s bombings in Kabul underline the choices facing Western countries
National affairs
9 February 2021
A new president in the White House means a new American ambassador in Canberra