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President Jimmy Carter waves to the crowd while walking with wife Rosalynn and their daughter, Amy, to the White House following his inauguration on January 20, 1977.

Jimmy Carter: A challenged presidency, a life of moral courage

He lived for 100 years. While Jimmy Carter could not fulfil his goals as president, the values he stood for – honesty, compassion, morality – endure.

  • Bruce Wolpe

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November 22, 1963, the day president John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas.

How to write a media column (and get away with it)

Some columns are unforgettable – from the immeasurable pain of a young widow to the memory of a predawn excursion, where a father shared the wonder of wetlands.

  • John Silvester
United States ambassador to Australia Caroline Kennedy gets a surf lesson.

Back to Camelot: Caroline Kennedy set to leave Australia in months

After a long stint surfing, racing cars and hosting power brokers, the US ambassador is wrapping up and getting ready to head home.

  • Matthew Knott

Will Trump get a boost now that RFK Jr’s brain worm has turned?

Robert Kennedy Jr has thrown his support behind Donald Trump in a move former friends have described as “sad and surreal”.

  • Peter Hartcher
Jackie Kennedy - inspiration for Raffles Femme Fatale cocktail. Her lipstick-smeared glass is on display at the Elephant Bar.

Jackie Kennedy would have turned 95 this week. Who was the woman behind the photos?

And what is it that draws us back, again and again, to her story?

  • Dawn Tripp
American presidents Abraham Lincoln (left), Franklin D. Roosevelt, Ronald Reagan, Donald Trump, John F Kennedy.

Assassination in the USA: Why does America take aim at its leaders?

Access to guns does not fully explain the intensity of American political violence. There must be something more.

  • Peter Hartcher
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Penny was put down last week after eating contaminated meat

Calls for racing ban ignore the realities

Greyhound racing has its problems. Those are well known, publicised and understood. But so does every industry, community, profession and so forth. Problems don’t mean cancellation. Problems mean a search for and implementation of solutions. That’s what adults do in the face of adversity.

The bare-chested Forrest Gump factor that could make or break Trump and Biden

Like the Kennedys who preceded him, Robert F. Kennedy Jr is an attention-grabber, but he’s gathering real traction – especially among young American voters.

  • Nick Bryant
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John F Kennedy and wife Jacqueline in 1961 … JFK was taken from us before we could fully see his vision.

I was 12 when JFK was assassinated. Here’s what I saw

Today, we need Kennedy’s noble clarion call to Americans renewed, so the country can transcend these times, the most divisive since the Civil War.

  • Bruce Wolpe

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