This Month
The Australian lawyer behind DC’s new MAGA hangout
From Steve Bannon to Sean Spicer, clubhouse Butterworth’s has become the place to be seen for Republican operatives. And a former Liberal staffer is its biggest backer.
- Hannah Wootton
January
5 of world’s richest people line up for Trump ‘power’
The ceremony in the US Capitol underscored the president’s deepening ties to titans of industry and the shifting stances of those who previously scorned him.
- Joe Miller and Alex Rogers
- Opinion
- Trump's White House
Musk v Bannon: The MAGA cage match begins
Donald Trump loves a good fight, and is likely to relish the battle between Steve Bannon and Elon Musk.
- Nia-Malika Henderson
‘Go back to South Africa’: Steve Bannon slams Elon Musk
In an interview with the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera, the right-wing firebrand said the billionaire should be denied access to the West Wing.
- Jeff Stein
December 2024
Kash Patel, from ‘not a credible witness’ to pick to lead the FBI
Patel has been a vocal supporter of Donald Trump for years and has said he would upend the FBI and radically reshape its mission.
- Eric Tucker and Alan Suderman
November 2024
How a George Soros protege became Trump’s top economic pick
Once a big Democratic donor, hedge fund investor Scott Bessent predicted last year that the Republican’s political fortunes were on the rise.
- Alan Rappeport
- Opinion
- Trump's White House
Trump’s demolition of the US state
You measure a leader by his actions not by his heart. To judge from what Trump has done within a fortnight of winning the presidency, his path is destruction.
- Edward Luce
October 2024
He’s out of prison and set to fire up Trump’s roadshow
Allies say Stephen Bannon, one of the right’s most influential voices, has been tracking the race from jail and is ready to push Trump supporters to the polls.
- Updated
- Ken Bensinger
July 2024
Economic populism clashes with Trump’s pitch to donors
Even as the former president leans into populist themes that make some Republicans wary, he has told major donors he is the only bulwark against higher taxes.
- Josh Dawsey, Rachel Siegel, Jeff Stein and Laura Vozzella
- Opinion
- US election
The 2024 presidential election is not over yet
Millions of “never Trump” voters are unlikely to become “yes Trumpers”, however appalled they are by the vile attempted murder.
- Gideon Rachman
June 2024
ECB’s historic rate cut | D-Day remembered | Private credit boom goes public
Read everything that’s happened in the news so far today.
Trump ally Steve Bannon ordered to prison
The ideological champion of the former US president’s MAGA movement was convicted of contempt of Congress.
- Andrew Goudsward
- Opinion
- US election
Why Trump, and not Hunter Biden, is trashing America’s courts
Treating the rule of law as a partisan issue is the mark of a corroded political culture.
- Edward Luce
November 2023
The receipts left in Hamish McLennan’s downfall
The ousted Rugby Australia chairman leaves a trail of receipts that led to his demise.
- Mark Di Stefano
September 2023
The author of feminist treatise The Beauty Myth is now a Trump fan
Writer Naomi Klein has suffered years of abuse after being confused with Naomi Wolf, a darling of the left who embraced the populist right.
- Michelle Goldberg
March 2023
Lamborghini, yacht: Chinese tycoon ‘stole $1.5b’ for lavish lifestyle
US prosecutors accuse Guo Wengui of conspiring to cheat thousands of victims using “a series of complex fraudulent and fictitious businesses”.
- Bob Van Voris
July 2022
Steve Bannon found guilty of contempt in case related to Capitol riot
Former White House strategist Steve Bannon is the first close aide to former President Donald Trump to be convicted as a result of one of the investigations into the January 6 attack.
- Aishvarya Kavi and Alan Feuer
April 2022
- Opinion
- Russia-Ukraine war
Pro-Putin leader’s victory sends a warning to the West
The Hungarian prime minister has long courted fellow strongman figures like Vladimir Putin and China’s Xi Jinping. But now it’s time for the European Union to act.
- Updated
- Gideon Rachman
November 2021
‘They took on the wrong guy’: Bannon assails Biden over charges
Donald Trump’s longtime adviser Steve Bannon has sought to portray the criminal charges over his defiance of a congressional inquiry into the deadly January 6 Capitol riot as politically motivated.
- Jan Wolfe and Sarah N. Lynch
October 2021
Bannon held in criminal contempt of Congress
Nine Republicans broke ranks with their party leaders to join all Democrats in voting for Steve Bannon to be prosecuted.
- Updated
- Billy House