September
- Analysis
- US Votes 2024
Trump’s ‘black Nazi’ porn scandal is a stunning gift for Democrats
The former president is now stuck with an embattled candidate in the critical swing state of North Carolina, in a race that previously looked extremely close.
- Tony Diver
- Analysis
- US Votes 2024
Why violence against Trump is the new normal
The latest assassination attempt against the former president shows how much the US political landscape has been shaped by anger stirred by him and against him.
- Peter Baker
July
- Opinion
- US election
How toxic talk turns too easily to assassin’s bullets
A more centrist political culture doesn’t make Australia immune to the language that has inflamed American politics in recent times.
- Georgina Downer
- Opinion
- US election
Trump’s survival will turbocharge the Republican convention
The former president’s narrow escape from death is giving new life to his campaign, and Joe Biden’s address calling for unity won’t fix the extreme division in America.
- Jennifer Hewett
Is America entering another age of political violence?
Let’s hope that the voices of American moderation, who have been cowed by extremes on both sides of the political spectrum, step back into the arena.
- Peter Spiegel
May
Biden’s Atlanta trip highlights duel with Trump for black voters
While overwhelming support from black voters was key to Joe Biden’s 2020 victory, there’s concern among his supporters that Donald Trump is making inroads.
- Skylar Woodhouse, Nancy Cook and Akayla Gardner
April
- Opinion
- Israeli-Palestinian conflict
The ghost of the 1968 antiwar movement has returned
The sense in the Biden campaign that it can simply wait out the protests by Democratic voters is a reckless gamble.
- Charles M. Blow
August 2023
Trump joins Bill Gates and Al Capone in famous mugshots gallery
Donald Trump surrendered to a courthouse in Atlanta, becoming the first former US president to join those with a police photograph.
- Roland Oliphant
June 2023
- Opinion
- US politics
A great court victory for meritocracy
The US Supreme Court’s decision on affirmative action has important lessons for the Voice debate in Australia.
- Steven Schwartz
January 2023
- Opinion
- Global economy
Davos: a pointless elitist indulgence or inspirational agenda-setter?
The annual World Economic Forum meeting is about to get underway in Davos. European correspondent Hans van Leeuwen and special contributor Peter Holmes a Court go to head-to-head on whether the world should care.
- Hans van Leeuwen and Peter Holmes à Court
June 2022
‘Scared and tired’: thousands across the US rally against gun violence
With their signs and chants, they condemned the drumbeat of mass shootings and renewed a call for federal legislation to limit military-style weapons.
- Michael Wines, Anne Barnard, Sean Keenan and Dave Montgomery
January 2021
- Opinion
- The AFR View
New President's success depends on lifting growth
President Biden's speech did not conceal the difficulties facing Americans. But he has no plan to drive the prosperity that will sideline Trumpist discontents.
- The AFR View
Film MLK/FBI explores how FBI tracked Martin Luther King jnr for years
Extensive official monitoring of the black rights leader is revealed just when America is reeling from violence against black communities.
- Rodney Ho
September 2020
- Analysis
- Political leadership
Australia must now become the plucky country
If 'the lucky country' is indeed a thing of the past, what does the future hold as we stumble through these tumultuous times?
- Andrew Clark
June 2020
- Analysis
- Black Lives Matter
Can Gen Z succeed where others failed?
An emerging consensus on the need to address racial injustice has allowed a movement to take hold at the unlikeliest of times.
- Jeremy Cliffe
Floyd hailed as 'cornerstone of a movement' at funeral
Family members, clergy and politicians exhorted Americans to turn grief and outrage at his death into a moment of reckoning for the nation.
- Updated
- Jennifer Hiller and Gary McWilliams
US protesters heartened by swift reform, but vow broader change
In the two weeks since George Floyd's killing, police departments have banned choke-holds, Confederate monuments have fallen and officers have been arrested and charged.
- Updated
- Juan Lozano and Nomaan Merchant
- Analysis
- Floyd protests
Massive day of rallies in Washington
More than 10,000 people poured into the nation's capital on the ninth day of protests over police brutality, but what awaited them was a city that no longer felt as if it was being occupied by its own country's military.
- Samantha Schmidt, Jessica Contrera, Rebecca Tan and John Woodrow Cox
- Analysis
- Floyd protests
America has been here before but this time it is weak
The US has been rocked by the worst race riots since 1968. The main difference is that its great institutions were stronger back then.
- Andrew Clark
'Get your knee off our necks': Floyd memorial demands historic change
The Reverend Al Sharpton called George Floyd's death emblematic of oppression black people have faced since America's founding and announced a new March on Washington.
- Holly Bailey, Sheila Regan, Marisa Iati and Hannah Knowles