November 2024
- Analysis
- US Votes 2024
Campaign TV ads give voters permission to go rogue
Democrats and Republicans are highlighting relatable characters offering measured testimonials to coax voters into crossing party lines.
- Adam Nagourney
- 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
August 2024
- Opinion
- Kamala Harris
The big risk in Kamala Harris’ surprise choice for VP
Tim Walz’s down-to-earth language was transformed into the equivalent of a political magic wand, but there’s a risk in overlooking Josh Shapiro in the must-win swing state of Pennsylvania.
- Jennifer Hewett
July 2024
- 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
- 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
June 2024
- Opinion
- US election
Why next week’s Biden v Trump debate is so important
A set piece clash between Joe Biden and Donald Trump will turn less on policies than on manner and appearance. What they say will matter less than how they seem.
- Updated
- Edward Luce
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: a diplomat both admired and vilified
Historians and friends hailed Henry Kissinger’s diplomatic achievements, while critics assailed his policies in Vietnam and elsewhere as murderous.
- Michael D. Shear
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
- Opinion
- World elections
A Trump win would change the world
If Donald Trump were to return to the White House as president, the implications for the US, its allies and the global economy are sure to be profound.
- Martin Wolf
February 2023
Cricket Australia clean bowled, yet again
The bargain Seven has just extracted from the jokers of Jolimont Street is almost unbelievable.
- Joe Aston
December 2022
Internal Revenue let Trump avoid tax audits while in office
The revelation could transform the political context of the committee’s nearly four-year fight to obtain information about Trump’s taxes and any related audits.
- Charlie Savage, Emily Cochrane, Stephanie Lai and Alan Rappeport
November 2022
Tony Whitlam: Gough was ‘pissed off’ by Dismissal slur
Gough Whitlam’s son opens up for the first time about his father’s reaction to being dismissed, and Labor’s 1972 election victory.
- Andrew Clark
December 2021
Defence team rests in Elizabeth Holmes fraud trial
US District Judge Edward Davila recessed the trial for a week to allow time for refining the instructions to the jury in a complicated case that began more than three years ago.
- Michael Liedtke
November 2021
- Opinion
- Inflation
Why Biden should embrace the vaccine culture wars
The quicker coronavirus recedes, the faster the US service sector returns to normal, and the sooner inflation is tamed. Sustained inflation could ruin the Democrats’ chances of holding on to power.
- Edward Luce
September 2021
Two political decisions that will reverberate
Why Scott Morrison’s action on nuclear subs and NSW Treasurer Dominic Perrottet’s move to repay $11 billion of taxpayer debt are profound shifts.
- Christopher Joye
- Analysis
- Coronavirus pandemic
Biden’s vaccine push wins cautious business support
The vocal Republican opposition to the President’s initiative threatens to leave the GOP at odds with its traditional business constituency.
- Updated
- David J. Lynch
August 2021
- Opinion
- War
The US is simply delusional on Afghanistan
Washington insists that there is no military solution to the conflict. But nobody has told the surging Taliban.
- Max Boot
April 2021
As Biden nears 100 days, polls show persistent partisan divides
Surveys found that Joe Biden is considerably more popular at the 100-day mark than his predecessor, but his approval is well behind that of most other modern US presidents at this point in their first terms.
- Giovanni Russonello
March 2021
Gordon Liddy, Watergate mastermind, dead at 90
Liddy, a former FBI agent and Army veteran, was convicted of conspiracy, burglary and illegal wiretapping for his role in the Watergate burglary, which led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon.
- Will Lester