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FILE — Former President Barack Obama moderates a conversation about hope and pluralism at the Obama Foundation 2024 Democracy Forum in Chicago, Dec. 5, 2024. Obama will gingerly step into the public fray on Tuesday night, after weeks of quiet grumbling from some demoralized Democrats for what they say is his silence in the face of a frontal assault on liberal America by the Trump administration. (Jamie Kelter Davis/The New York Times).

‘Let’s not go over the cliff’: Obama offers careful warning in rare public appearance

Former US president Barack Obama remarked on the dangers facing American democracy, including an erosion of traditional values like the rule of law, an independent judiciary, the freedom of the press and the right to protest.

  • Lisa Lerer

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Mourners carry the flag-draped coffins of five men, whose names were not immediately available, reportedly killed in Israeli strikes, during their funeral in the city of Khorramabad, Iran, on Monday.

Iranians support Israel assassinating their oppressors – at least for now

Regime change, if that is indeed Israel’s goal, cannot be imposed from outside. It must come from within, and Israel risks alienating the very constituency it needs to get the job done.

  • Kylie Moore-Gilbert
Melissa Hortman and her husband were killed in their home.

In a dangerously polarised US, political violence is becoming part of life

The shootings of two politicians and their partners this weekend are part of a trend. Slowly but surely, political violence has moved from the fringes to an inescapable reality.

  • Lisa Lerer
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese addresses the National Press Club in Canberra.

Albanese pitches himself as democracy’s defender before Trump meeting

In his first major speech since the election, Anthony Albanese promises Labor will focus on urgent necessities in its second term – and rebuilding trust in government.

  • James Massola
A photo Miguel Uribe Turbay shared on the anniversary of mother Diana Turbay’s death.

His mother was killed when he was four. Now this presidential hopeful is fighting for his life

Colombian politician Miguel Uribe Turbay, whose mother was kidnapped by Pablo Escobar, is in a critical condition after a shooting that has shaken the nation.

The sausage sizzle at Saint George’s Church voting centre in Paddington, NSW.

It takes an army to make democracy work. It’s time more of us enlisted

When it comes to elections, democracy sausages don’t cook themselves.

  • Jane Caro
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Lynton Crosby speaks with John Howard at a luncheon in Washington in 2002.

‘Gotcha moments’ and ‘digital lynch mobs’: Political mastermind issues warning for democracy

He steered David Cameron and John Howard to victory, but Lynton Crosby wonders if even Winston Churchill would survive the age of online pile-ons.

  • Rob Harris

Think this election’s ageing voter problem was bad? It’s only going to get worse

There’s been a variety of reasons offered for why the number of informal votes among ageing Australians has almost tripled, but each one fails as an explanation.

  • Shane Wright
The number of undecided voters is rising. Who will get their tick?

Surge of informal votes in hospitals and aged care casts doubt over close results

An almost threefold increase in the rate of informal voting in healthcare settings nationwide has drawn official scrutiny and raised questions over the outcome in key contests.

  • Shane Wright
Former Liberal leader Peter Dutton.

Australians can’t stand sore losers. How did politicians miss the memo?

The growing complaint about the historic May 3 election isn’t only that our voting system is busted. To some, it represents a full-blown conspiracy.

  • Shane Wright

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