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The US dollar is already a loaded weapon. What next?

The apparent decay in the institutions that underpin the power and credibility of the dollar – and its issuer – are the focus of a recent book.

  • Carey K Mott

Yesterday

Former Japanese PM Shinzo Abe had the knack

Diplomats share tips on how to avoid humiliation in Trump meetings

Flattery can make the Republican receptive to a leader’s words, but only if he also thinks that leader strong.

  • The Economist

This Month

David Tennant as Lord Tony Baddingham in Rivals.

Why screen villains always play golf

Short of kicking a puppy, there’s no more reliable signifier of utter rottenness than a man – and it is always a man – playing golf.

  • Peter Swain
Police escort Maccabi Tel Aviv supporters to the metro station before the Ajax game.

A worldwide ‘Jew hunt’ is under way

The instigators of last week’s attacks in Amsterdam are, like generations of pogromists before them, simply out to get the Jews.

  • Bret Stephens
President-elect Donald Trump with Senator Marco Rubio, front-runner for Secretary of State in the incoming administration.

What Trump’s chosen ones tell us about his foreign policy

The way in which America thinks about itself and its international environment has been changing for some years. Trump Redux puts it into sharp relief.

  • John McCarthy
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Putin looks to Stalin for inspiration on women and babies

Several lawmakers and public figures have called for a tax on childlessness – much like the one imposed by Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin.

  • Robyn Dixon and Natalia Abbakumova
Elon Musk on the campaign trail for Trump in Pennsylvania last month. Trump won the State.

Elon Musk proves the absolute power of markets

The quiet money behind Elon Musk is you and the hundreds of millions of others with retirement savings.

  • Will Dunn
The world is more contested than in Trump’s first term.

Three challenges for Australia as the US turns inwards

America will accelerate global fragmentation as it becomes more isolationist, leaving its ally very exposed, says one of our most experienced public servants. 

  • Heather Smith
Nathan McSweeney was out for 14 in his first crack as opener for Australia A against India at the MCG on November 7,

Make more money by losing – the sad state of world cricket

The game has long abandoned even the pretence of being coherently run. For fans and players alike, cricket is increasingly unfathomable.

  • Tim Wigmore
We have been commerating WW1 at events like this dawn service at Melbourne’s Shrine of Rememberance for more than a century yet this is still more to learn.

On Remembrance Day: new ways to understand an old war

Scholarship on the Great War extends far beyond the traditional focus on heroic but doomed Anzacs.

  • Peter Stanley
The president-elect: Donald Trump during his victory speech at Palm Beach, Florida.

Trump is now unstoppable – and he’s ready to change the world

Whether Donald Trump governs like a decent democratic president, or makes a mockery of the constitution, the fact of his election deserves to be treated with respect.

  • Janet Daley
A Diamondback Energy oil rig in Midland, Texas – another lurch back towards pro-fossil fuel power policy is now assured. But there are limits.

Trump’s victory is neither an oil gusher nor a green crusher

It’s worth remembering that more US wind-power capacity was installed in Trump’s first term than under Biden.

  • Liam Denning
We have to accept that many Americans want Donald Trump, for all his shortcomings, in charge.

America, we can no longer pretend Trump is not who we are

The Harris campaign, as the Biden campaign before it, laboured under the misapprehension that more exposure to the Republican would repel voters.

  • Carlos Lozada

How the Wallabies’ 1984 grand slam tour changed rugby forever

The tour not only marked Australian rugby’s coming of age, it influenced the decision of the code to turn professional just over a decade later.

  • James Curran
A real stinker … Judi Dench in Cats

From Cats to the Babe sequel, the most disastrous films of all time

Andrew Lloyd Webber was left so traumatised by what Hollywood did to Cats that he bought an emotional support dog.

  • Leaf Arbuthnot
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Dividing the spoils: Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, and Chinese President Xi Jinping, right, shake hands during a concert marking the 75th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Russia and China in Beijing, China, on May 16.

Xi is thumping Putin in the Great Game

Former Australian ambassador to China Geoff Raby takes a deep dive into the “Chussia” partnership. His conclusions about a rising Sinostan would not please the Kremlin.

  • Geoff Raby
US President Joe Biden, with Vice President Kamala Harris, as he signed the AI executive order.

Trump and Harris secretly agree on at least one major issue

There has been one issue where substance rather than partisanship has moulded thinking.

  • Matteo Wong
A Chanel bag cannot cost more than a Hermès bag. That’s just how this market works.

What everyone gets wrong about luxury handbags

Most people fail to understand why these sought-after fashion accessories are so expensive in the first place, let alone why some cost more than others.

  • Amanda Mull
Warren Buffett: Emotions are fine in life but not in business.

Warren Buffett’s 11 tips for investing and life

An extract from “The New Tao of Warren Buffett” contains the great investor’s musings on business school and a few other pearls.

  • Mary Buffett and David Clark

Why your smug view of US politics is wrong

Around this time every four years, Australians develop a sense of superiority, but our judgment lacks nuance.

  • Timothy J Lynch

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