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Books & arts Shored against our ruins Gordon Peake 10 April 2025 Robert Kaplan’s latest book is characteristically thoughtful and necessarily bleak National affairs Notes on a resurgence Peter Brent 9 April 2025 Pollsters are giving Labor a winning edge, but the government has reasons to be cautious National affairs Peter Dutton’s challenge Paul Rodan 8 April 2025 Is electoral history about to assert itself once again? Books & arts The improvisers John Edwards 8 April 2025 As Australia faces a crisis of orientation, an expatriate argues that being adaptable is better than being visionary

National affairs State of exception Peter Brent 25 March 2025 Taswegians tend to go their own way at national elections, and that can matter when the results are close Essays & reportage Lidia Thorpe, the UN Declaration and the mob out there Tim Rowse 20 March 2025 Despite her weakness for hyperbole, the high-profile senator has proposed a simple way of bringing greater Indigenous scrutiny to parliament Books & arts Stuck in the middle Michael Gill 17 March 2025 An American journalist lifts the veil on a company that might exemplify China’s future National affairs Vaccination nations Lesley Russell 14 March 2025 Can Australia avoid America’s backwards slide, and even become a world leader in vaccines?

Essays & reportage Disruption (with Australian characteristics) Brett Evans 7 March 2025 A credible teal threat to the Liberals in Sydney’s Bradfield raises the question: would minority government be so bad? International The second time as tragedy Rodney Tiffen 4 March 2025 The Trump administration is going to extraordinary lengths to undermine the system’s capacity to check presidential actions Books & arts Radical astonishment Nicholas Brown 4 March 2025 Robert Manne tracks almost half a century of political and cultural flux through an intensely personal lens International What’s new in Germany? Klaus Neumann 27 February 2025 And — following the weekend’s election — what’s eerily familiar?