International
2 August 2024
While the United States fumbles, more provocations have lifted the risks of a region-wide conflict in the Middle East
Books & arts
25 July 2024
Can six soldier poets help us understand the first world war anew?
International
21 June 2024
As the merciless bombings continue in Gaza, developments on the Lebanon–Israel border are adding to the risk of yet more warfare
Books & arts
20 May 2024
The extraordinary life — and death — of Roger Casement, humanitarian and Irish patriot
Books & arts
10 May 2024
How a shape-shifting journalist turned the Nazis’ techniques back on them
International
10 May 2024
As the United States prepares for conflict with China, its military build-up in Micronesia is intensifying
Essays & reportage
23 April 2024
A chance find reveals a trove of wartime letters and other memorabilia
International
10 April 2024
Pressure is mounting among Israel’s allies for a long-term settlement
Books & arts
9 April 2024
How Vladimir Putin’s empire dream became Ukraine’s war and an international nightmare
Books & arts
2 April 2024
In the wake of a war and the Holocaust, how should music commemorate?
Books & arts
30 March 2024
A major new series about the postwar world poses the inevitable question: has the cold war returned?
Books & arts
27 March 2024
James Bond creator Ian Fleming’s war never ended
National affairs
19 March 2024
There is an alternative, but the debate looks like taking some time to shift
Books & arts
4 March 2024
A major new book revisits the moral and legal ambiguities of the Tokyo war crimes trial
Books & arts
27 February 2024
A returned soldier’s belief in American virtue and progress is shaken
International
22 February 2024
With the full-scale invasion entering its third year, the stakes remain high
Essays & reportage
8 February 2024
Communist or not, postwar refugees from the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe attracted the attention of Australia’s security services
International
28 January 2024
The carnage in Israel and Gaza can’t be understood without tracing the realignments sparked by America’s war in Iraq
International
24 January 2024
“Keeping the sea lanes open” comes with rarely considered opportunity costs
Essays & reportage
8 December 2023
Collective punishment won’t defeat Hamas
From the archive
1 December 2023
How does the former secretary of state feel about being called a war criminal?
Essays & reportage
23 November 2023
Shaped by history, Sylvie Leber and her forebears have campaigned for social change
Books & arts
21 November 2023
Russia’s war against Ukraine is generating a rich historiography
Books & arts
9 November 2023
Calder Walton’s lively global survey takes in a century of espionage
International
1 November 2023
And what it means for Gaza’s future
International
25 October 2023
Preoccupied with other conflicts, the democratic world is passing up the chance to shift the dynamics in Myanmar
International
19 October 2023
Hamas’s appalling attack has exposed a government with no plan for resolving its country’s greatest challenges
Books & arts
25 September 2023
An Iraqi journalist traces the creation of “one of the most corrupt nations on earth”
Essays & reportage
17 September 2023
Sent to Australia as an “enemy alien” by Churchill’s government, Bern Brent spent decades challenging conventional accounts of the internees’ lives
Books & arts
5 September 2023
The Great War brought the drive for international trade and cooperation to a disastrous end