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United States
International
Jostling giants
John Edwards
30 November 2021
Does America really need a novel strategy to counter China’s rise?
National Affairs
An intersection society no more?
Carol Johnson
4 October 2021
Australia’s retreat to the Anglosphere has implications beyond defence and trade
International
Joe Biden peers into the abyss
Lesley Russell
3 October 2021
The US president knows very well what history says about protracted and acrimonious legislative disputes
National Affairs
Going nuclear
Nicholas Stuart
23 September 2021
The AUKUS alliance represents a dramatic step away from multilateral diplomacy. Or is it a first step towards an independent nuclear deterrent?
Essays & Reportage
Why the New Deal still matters
Eric Rauchway
13 September 2021
In ways that still resonate, the program to drag the economy out of the Great Depression changed Americans’ relationships with politics, economics and each other
International
Our enemy’s enemy
Hamish McDonald
27 August 2021
Yesterday’s bombings in Kabul underline the choices facing Western countries
International
From Korea to Kabul, and beyond
Andy Butfoy
23 August 2021
If the past is any guide, failure in Afghanistan won’t end Washington’s military activism
International
Lost in translation
Emma Shortis
18 August 2021
Will the chaotic withdrawal from another war zone finally change how the United States and Australia deal with conflict?
International
Mission unaccomplished
Mark Baker
18 August 2021
Another round of foreign interference in Afghanistan has been dealt a thoroughly predictable blow
International
Home front victories
Lesley Russell
17 August 2021
Autumn approaches with Joe Biden on a domestic high
International
Roe v Wade v Trump
Lesley Russell
1 June 2021
The one-term president and his allies have had an outsized impact on abortion rights
Books & Arts
Spy versus spies
Stephen Mills
24 May 2021
Weapons inspector Rod Barton assigns to the CIA a large share of the blame for the invasion of Iraq
Essays & Reportage
Lonely evenings at the photocopier
Rodney Tiffen
17 May 2021
It’s fifty years since the
New York Times
set off a fateful sequence of events by publishing the Pentagon Papers
International
Building Obamacare back better
Lesley Russell
10 May 2021
Joe Biden’s prioritisation of healthcare has been evident from day one
National Affairs
Is China’s claim to Taiwan approaching its end game?
Hamish McDonald
30 April 2021
And what would that mean for Australia?
International
Joe Biden, zeitgeist president
John Quiggin
21 April 2021
An alliance between an old president and a “young” party is yielding policies that Bill Clinton and Barack Obama wouldn’t have contemplated
Books & Arts
Signing up for an invasion
Tom Hyland
16 April 2021
Books
| How did two very different leaders come to join George W. Bush’s “march of folly”?
International
The Americans are coming
Nic Maclellan
15 April 2021
Fearful of growing Chinese influence, the Trump White House pledged increased engagement with the Pacific islands. Will Joe Biden follow suit?
International
On economics, America has moved left
John Quiggin
8 March 2021
Public support for much greater government spending has grown in the United States, and the economic risks can be managed
International
When wealthier doesn’t mean healthier
Lesley Russell
11 February 2021
Covid-19 hit the United States hard, but life expectancy was already falling. The lessons for other countries are clear
National Affairs
Bagman, buddy or career diplomat?
Hamish McDonald
9 February 2021
A new president in the White House means a new American ambassador in Canberra
Books & Arts
Talking about a moral emergency
Jane Goodall
3 February 2021
Television
| The coverage of events in Washington was a study in contrasts
International
Biden and the bomb
Andy Butfoy
1 February 2021
A modified version of the old normal might be the best the new president can deliver
International
Hitting the ground running
Lesley Russell
17 December 2020
Joe Biden’s team inherits a country deeply divided by the Trump administration’s handling of the coronavirus
International
Small force, great weight
Benjamin Reilly
27 November 2020
Could preferential voting be an “Archimedean lever of change” for American politics?
International
Joe Biden’s foreign policy dilemma
Barbara Keys
24 November 2020
Will the new president do more than simply return to the policies of the past?
National Affairs
Winging it to Japan
Hamish McDonald
18 November 2020
A new defence agreement with Japan raises as many questions as it answers
Essays & Reportage
Washington’s winter war
Eric Rauchway
17 November 2020
A national crisis, an acrimonious election, a recalcitrant president — how Herbert Hoover delayed America’s recovery from the Great Depression
Correspondents
Two Americas, one existential crisis
Nicole Hemmer
10 November 2020
Red America and Blue America have become much more than clichés
International
Tracking the transition
Lesley Russell
10 November 2020
What needs to happen during Joe Biden and Kamala Harris’s journey from win to White House?
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