This Month
- Opinion
- Diversity
Trump fires up war on woke
Donald Trump is waging war on DEI policies. Does this mean the defeat of woke – or just another front in the fight?
- Jennifer Hewett
- Updated
- Trump's America
Trump moves to sack all federal DEI staff in lightning purge
The president also encouraged the US private sector to follow the federal government’s lead and “end illegal DEI discrimination”.
- Updated
- Erica Green
August 2024
- Opinion
- US election
‘Gaza’ is the word Democrats dare not whisper in Chicago
Silence is the wisest option for Kamala Harris on a divisive election issue that is harming the global image of the US.
- Updated
- Edward Luce
July 2024
- Opinion
- US election
Kamala Harris is now fighting in uncharted territory
The Democrats must decide between a coronation of the vice president or a divisive contested convention.
- Updated
- Edward Luce
Biden exit leaves markets asking what’s next for ‘Trump trade’
There is little historical data to use for a read on how markets will react. The last sitting president who did not seek a second term was Lyndon Johnson in 1968.
- Natalia Kniazhevich, Bre Bradham and Anya Andrianova
- Analysis
- US election
If Joe Biden goes: how would it work – and who would replace him?
The president faces huge pressure to step aside from his campaign. But what would happen next?
- Andrew Jack
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 politics
More shots heard around the world
For Donald Trump, the ‘bully pulpit’ almost became his funeral pyre. And the gulf between his strongman image and Biden’s ongoing struggles is now likely to widen.
- James Curran
- 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 2024
- Opinion
- UK
Will Keir Starmer go wobbly on AUKUS?
The fantasy of a post-Brexit “global Britain” is gone, but British Labour says it will be everywhere around the world, and all at once.
- James Curran
February 2024
- Opinion
- Global economy
How America’s high-pressure economy could implode
It’s good for the time being, but you have to wonder what will happen when the valves are released.
- Rana Foroohar
How Joe Biden can copy Lyndon Johnson and quit
A bad week for the 81-year-old US president has sparked alarm about his fitness for another White House run.
- James Politi
- Opinion
- US election
Can Joe Biden now be convinced to drop out?
Most voters, including supporters of his own party, see the president as too old to run again.
- Edward Luce
January 2024
- 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
December 2023
- Opinion
- Foreign relations
Henry Kissinger was an inconsistent opportunist
America’s 20th century foreign policy giant and statesman was driven more by domestic considerations than he would ever have admitted.
- Tom Switzer
November 2023
Henry Kissinger, US diplomat and Nobel winner, dies at 100
He was a pivotal US secretary of state under presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, who oversaw America’s involvement in and withdrawal from the war in Vietnam.
- Updated
- Tony Diver
- Analysis
- Vale
Kissinger’s advice to aspiring leaders still holds
The arch foreign policy realist both intrigued and infuriated those around him and so many who have tried to assess his legacy.
- James Curran
- Opinion
- World elections
Biden can’t spin his way to re-election
To prevent a second term of Donald Trump, Democrats must accept that what is going wrong is their basic proposition, not the framing or messaging of it.
- Janan Ganesh
- Opinion
- World elections
Joe Biden’s year of living dangerously
A Donald Trump victory next year would make the incumbent the most consequential single-term president in history – but not in a way he would wish.
- Edward Luce
November 2021
How Biden won where Trump failed
Donald Trump promised an infrastructure bonanza of his own, but was always too distracted or combative for the relationship politics that has got the US$1.2 trillion funding over the line.
- Matt Viser