World
North America
US looks to invest billions in AI data centres. Australia may miss out
Australia is a favoured destination for investment but faces roadblocks in copyright laws, as well as a fickle White House, according to industry experts in New York.
- by Michael Koziol
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Opinion
US politics
How American liberalism lost its way and handed Trump a path to victory
Trump’s electoral resurrection was, in part, a rejection of the intolerance which has come to be emblematic of American progressivism.
- by George Brandis
Opinion
Trump diplomacy
Why Trump’s madness is making the world a safer place
The US president has smashed the Western alliance. But the Europeans are stepping up to spend their own money on their own defence.
- by Parnell Palme McGuinness
Opinion
Trump's America
The leader of the free world doesn’t believe in the free world
And for all our sakes, let’s hope America’s Trumpist fever will pass.
- by Michael Fullilove
Opinion
Five Minutes with Fitz
Only a handful of Australians have stood in the Oval Office with Trump. Arthur Sinodinos is one of them
Our former envoy to Washington says instead of abandoning the alliance with the US, we should impress on Trump that he needs us more than we need him.
- by Peter FitzSimons
Inside the explosive meeting where Trump officials clashed with Elon Musk
Seated diagonally opposite Marco Rubio, across the elliptical mahogany table, Elon Musk was letting the secretary of state have it.
- by Jonathan Swan and Maggie Haberman
Updated
Vale
Gene Hackman died of heart disease a week after his wife
Authorities initially ruled out foul play after the bodies were discovered on February 26. Immediate tests for carbon monoxide poisoning were negative.
- by Andrew Hay
Trump flags showdown with Iran on nuclear, threatens Russia sanctions
He appears to admit Vladimir Putin is exploiting a pause in US aid to Ukraine but is only doing “what anybody else would do” and “bombing the hell out of them”.
- by Michael Koziol
Opinion
US politics
Trump is shirtless and out of control, but his MAGA minions are bringing him back to earth
Republicans might be bending the knee now, but they will have to step up to fight for their electoral viability, even if it means breaking the MAGA code of fealty.
- by Melanie La’Brooy
‘People are going silent’: Fearing retribution, Trump critics muzzle themselves
More than six weeks into the second Trump administration, there is a chill spreading over political debate in Washington and beyond.
- by Elisabeth Bumiller
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