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International Where the Blue Pacific meets the Belt and Road Graeme Smith 15 March 2019 Pacific islands are navigating their own route between big-power plans Correspondents Going low or going high? Lesley Russell 7 March 2019 The race to be in the 2020 presidential race is gathering pace International Where does North Korea go from here? Justin Hastings 5 March 2019 The Hanoi summit might have failed to reach an agreement, but it highlighted the dilemmas facing the regime Books & arts Reconciliation without tears Julie Rigg 2 March 2019 Cinema | Familiar scenes at the Oscars, and At Eternity’s Gate reviewed

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 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