This Month
The new world order looks like mercantilism
The chaotic politics of the past 16 years masked the steady development of a new economic order, but trade and the economy aren’t zero-sum games.
- John Authers
November
- Opinion
- Economics explained
The economics behind ‘credible threats’
Good strategy involves knowing the game, including your opponents, and committing to a strategy.
- Richard Holden
- Opinion
- US Votes 2024
Trump claims election is being stolen again
The former president is priming his supporters to claim another election steal if he doesn’t win big.
- Jennifer Hewett
- Opinion
- US election
America’s search for a new role continues
Despite the mediocrity of the candidates, America is not down for the count. But it is wasting precious time to redefine its world role
- James Curran
September
Harris under poll pressure ahead of crucial debate
The debate will subject Ms Harris, who has sat for only a single formal interview in the past six weeks, to a rare moment of sustained questioning.
- Michelle Price and Zeke Miller
August
- Opinion
- World politics
Biden was good at managing America’s decline
Between the peak of something and its ultimate demise, a vast amount can be achieved. Perhaps it took a man who became president at 78 to see the point.
- Janan Ganesh
July
‘I carry a firearm every day’: party chief who wanted gun inside RNC
Guns were allowed to the edge of the Republican National Convention perimeter this week. Their own politicians wanted to bring their pistols inside the venue.
- Matthew Cranston
A history of political assassination in the US
There have been several instances of political violence targeting US presidents, former presidents and major party presidential candidates.
- Darlene Superville and Christina Cassidy
- Opinion
- US election
What if Joe Biden stays?
A second presidential term that was already burdened with political disadvantage will be incalculably more difficult because of questions about his age.
- Peter Spiegel
June
Biden-Trump debate comes with great risks and rewards for both men
In appealing to divided and often angry voters, the past and present presidents will need to navigate a minefield of perceptions and realities.
- Lisa Lerer, Shane Goldmacher, Jonathan Swan and Maggie Haberman
May
- Analysis
- US election
Gallows humour and escape: Trump’s possible return rattles Washington
Much of official Washington is bracing for the former president’s return – this time with ‘retribution’ as his avowed mission, the discussion is about self-imposed exile.
- Peter Baker
March
US faces Liz Truss-style market shock as debt soars, warns watchdog
The Congressional Budget Office chief says the US fiscal burden was on an “unprecedented” trajectory, risking a crisis of the kind that sparked a run on the pound in 2022.
- Claire Jones
- Opinion
- Russia-Ukraine war
NATO didn’t make Putin invade Ukraine
It is Vladimir Putin’s inability to tolerate an independent Ukraine, not NATO’s presence in eastern Europe, that has driven this brutal invasion.
- Jon Richardson
February
- Exclusive
- Retail
Woolies CEO says shoppers want ‘value’ not ‘broader conversations’
After a bruising political bunfight over Australia Day merchandise, the Woolworths boss says shoppers want the retail giant to “focus on delivering value”.
- Carrie LaFrenz and Jemima Whyte
January
- Opinion
- John Howard
Howard still ducks key Iraq question
Former prime minister John Howard has defended his record on committing Australia to the Iraq war. But we are no closer to fully understanding his reasons.
- James Curran
Howard fires back on Iraq war after cabinet papers row
Former PM John Howard has challenged the “fragile arguments” over his support of the 2003 Iraq invasion, while recognising it was his most unpopular decision.
- Andrew Tillett
Trump warns of ‘bedlam’ as court greets immunity claim with scepticism
Lawyers want the Court of Appeals to overturn a lower-court ruling that rejected the former president’s claims of immunity in the Department of Justice’s 2020 election subversion case.
- Updated
- Matthew Cranston
- Opinion
- World elections
America has seen it all – another Trump term won’t destroy it
I believe in America enough to think that it would take more than another term of Trump as president to destroy American democracy.
- Gideon Rachman
- Opinion
- John Howard
History damns John Howard on Iraq war
Even when released, the cabinet documents relating to the 2003 Iraq war will not reveal the impulses that drove John Howard into a disastrous commitment.
- James Curran
Iraq war secrecy reignites calls for inquiry
Every year the National Archives releases cabinet documents from 20 years earlier, but it is what was not released for 2003, the year Australia committed troops to Iraq, that has sparked the most attention.
- Ronald Mizen