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Flattery inflation
Henry Farrell
30 August 2025
Coined by the political scientist Xavier Marquez, the term is especially useful right now
Books & arts
Cheer treatment
David Goodman
28 August 2025
Paul and Eslanda Robeson fused politics and music on their acclaimed Australasian tour
Essays & reportage
Rallying the region
Hamish McDonald
19 August 2025
Donald Trump’s contemptuous treatment of much of Asia and the Pacific has created opportunities for China — and Australia
Books & arts
A dose of reality for the “realists”
Mark Edele
12 August 2025
Zbigniew Brzezinski came to resist the great-power thinking that would later play out so tragically in Ukraine
International
Watermelon woes
Robin Jeffrey
7 August 2025
Canadians are eyeing their southern neighbour with a mixture of wariness and irreverence
International
Tip of the spear
Nic Maclellan
4 August 2025
Eighty years on, America is intensifying its military presence in the Pacific
International
Bawdy Wall Street shock
Rodney Tiffen
1 August 2025
Rupert Murdoch’s
Wall Street Journal
has brought to a head the media mogul’s uneasy relationship with Donald Trump
International
At war with diplomacy
Melissa Conley Tyler and Lanni Hamblin
25 July 2025
The erosion of American foreign policy capacity continues in Washington
Books & arts
A post-American world
Graeme Dobell
22 July 2025
The Australian flag faces the American eagle in the new world disorder
International
Big, ugly and unpopular
Lesley Russell
16 July 2025
Donald Trump’s signature legislation will come back to bite the Republicans
National affairs
Iran and the US alliance
Graeme Dobell
23 June 2025
How Australia viewed the weekend bombing
National affairs
AUKUS’s missing price tag
Karen Middleton
13 June 2025
Anthony Albanese heads to Canada for an uncertain meeting with an unpredictable president
Books & arts
Essential services
Paddy Gourley
12 June 2025
Celebrated American author Michael Lewis brings together an emblematic group of public servants
Other Voices
We finally know what “American carnage” was about
Paul Krugman
12 June 2025
Behind the sadism lies an attack on democracy
International
Trump’s war on knowledge
Lesley Russell
4 June 2025
Like his erratic tariff decisions, Donald Trump’s attack on universities will damage America itself
Essays & reportage
John Howard’s masterful blunder
Graeme Dobell
29 May 2025
He achieved his goal, but Australia’s alliance-led march to Iraq lacked a vital ingredient
National affairs
Tackling the AUKUS zombie
Hamish McDonald
7 May 2025
A big election win gives Labor a chance to rethink this Morrison-era scheme
Books & arts
Unsettling portraits
Kate Fullagar & Michael A. McDonnell
17 April 2025
What can colonial portraits tell us about the past?
International
Two countries, two fiscal crises
Michael Gill
11 April 2025
Xi Jinping and Donald Trump are responding to a similar problem in dramatically different ways
Books & arts
Shored against our ruins
Gordon Peake
10 April 2025
Robert Kaplan’s latest book is characteristically thoughtful and necessarily bleak
Other Voices
Franklin D. Roosevelt, free trader
John Ganz
7 April 2025
Donald Trump’s trade policies couldn’t be more different from FDR’s labour-friendly efforts to open up America to the world
National affairs
Donald Trump and the ghost of Al Capone
Saul Eslake
6 April 2025
Australian exporters might well cope with a 10 per cent tariff, but a worldwide recession is another thing altogether
National affairs
Tricks of the trade
Karen Middleton
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
Other Voices
The reactionary right is not a monolith
Henry Farrell
1 April 2025
J.D. Vance is attempting to straddle two diametrically opposed tendencies on the radical right
National affairs
Pharmaceutical warfare
Lesley Russell
24 March 2025
How far will the Trump administration follow Big Pharma in targeting Australia’s Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme?
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?
National affairs
Shellshocked
Hamish McDonald
14 March 2025
Governments across the West are trying to come to terms with Donald Trump’s erratic hostility
International
Out of the woodchipper
Michael Jacobs
13 March 2025
At least one of its rivals will be rubbing its hands at Washington’s retreat from foreign aid and international institutions
International
“I’m most useful in a crisis. I’m not that good in peacetime.”
Jonathan Malloy
11 March 2025
Can a former central banker use Donald Trump’s threats to pull off a shock win for Canada’s Liberals?
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