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International
It’ll take more than one “good election” to fix America’s political culture
Rodney Tiffen
7 February 2019
How the United States has become more divided and out-of-step, in three charts
Correspondents
Trump at the crossroads
Lesley Russell
7 February 2019
Where does the president’s State of the Union speech lead?
International
Missile envy
Andy Butfoy
6 February 2019
Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin seem set on undoing the historic achievement of their 1980s predecessors
Books & Arts
This is America
Sara Dowse
20 December 2018
Books
| Michelle Obama’s memoir also reveals much about the state of the nation
International
At the bully pulpit
Dennis Altman
19 December 2018
Two years into the job, Donald Trump’s future seems less certain than ever
International
The blue wave’s female tinge
Lesley Russell
14 December 2018
It’s being called the new “Year of the Woman,” and it augurs badly for the Republicans
International
Not the new cold war
Graeme Dobell
27 November 2018
“Hot peace” is a much better label for this period of competing powers within a single system
International
When does a ripple become a wave?
Lesley Russell
12 November 2018
Well, the ripple has become a wave, with the respected
FiveThirtyEight
now estimating that the Democrats have picked up thirty-eight seats in the House. Here’s Lesley…
Books & Arts
Crimes and punishments
Andrew Leigh
1 November 2018
New York managed to stop the school-to-crime pipeline without increasing the imprisonment rate. Meanwhile, Australia is investing heavily in jail-building
International
A nation divided and torn
Lesley Russell
29 October 2018
Once again, the depth of division in the United States has been laid bare
International
Blue wave or red wall?
Lesley Russell
19 October 2018
With the US midterm elections less than three weeks away, how likely is a Democratic triumph?
National Affairs
In the shadow of America’s deficit
Saul Eslake
15 October 2018
With the US–China trade war escalating, the risks of a downturn are starting to overshadow the positive economic news
From the archive
What’s love got to do with it?
Stephen Mills
12 October 2018
Like Martin Luther King, philosopher Martha Nussbaum wants to take the anger out of democracy
International
Science under siege
Lesley Russell
5 October 2018
Donald Trump has launched an all-fronts attack on science and environmental protection
Books & Arts
Writers over America
Susan Lever
25 September 2018
Books
| Critics and readers in the United States played a little-known role in the history of Australian fiction
Correspondents
Speakers great and small
Graeme Dobell
13 September 2018
Are America and Australia two allies separated by a common language?
International
How America’s War on Poverty became a war on the poor
Lesley Russell
17 August 2018
The Trump administration says the decades-old effort to reduce poverty is over, for all the wrong reasons
Correspondents
Getting ready for the blue wave
Lesley Russell
28 July 2018
A frenetic White House reflects growing fears about the Republicans’ fate in November
National Affairs
Forty years on, a sense of history gives way to alarm
Tim Colebatch
23 July 2018
Experts gathered in Canberra last week to pool their views about China’s forty-year record of economic reform, but Donald Trump’s trade war pushed its way to centrestage
Correspondents
The elephant in the bedroom
Jonathan Malloy
13 July 2018
Canadians find themselves caught in an uncomfortably close relationship with Donald Trump’s America
National Affairs
Cutting through
Sophie Black
3 July 2018
Donald Trump forgot the most basic lesson of Australia’s detention regime: don’t mention the children
International
How a party became a cult
Lesley Russell
2 July 2018
And what it means for the midterm elections
International
Westward, look, the land is bright
John Quiggin
29 June 2018
Amid more bad news from Washington come signs that attitudes are hardening against much of what the Trump presidency stands for
International
Is North Korea behaving differently this time?
Justin Hastings
19 June 2018
With an economy in transition, the regime is under greater pressure to reach a deal
International
America’s deadly exceptionalism
Lesley Russell
28 May 2018
Maternal and infant mortality rates in the United States are already shamefully high, and the Trump administration’s policies are making them worse. But California is…
Essays & Reportage
China and Australia’s fifth icy age
Graeme Dobell
10 May 2018
Relations have been cool before, and will be cool again — though domestic issues are complicating the picture
International
Trump’s nuclear brinkmanship enters a new phase
John Tilemann
9 May 2018
Just weeks before his meeting with Kim Jong-un, Donald Trump has pulled the United States out of the Iran nuclear agreement. What is likely to happen next?
International
Right war, wrong weapons
Lesley Russell
13 April 2018
America’s opioid crisis won’t be solved by the Mexican wall and capital punishment. Meanwhile, deaths keep rising, and Australia isn’t immune
National Affairs
Government by algorithm
Mike Steketee
6 April 2018
Automated welfare didn’t end with the robodebt controversy. Here and overseas, governments are turning vital decisions over to computers
International
Has the West called Putin’s bluff?
John Besemeres
4 April 2018
The Russian president faces uncharacteristically united international opposition at the beginning of a potentially unstable final term in office
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