• It’s the final countdown

    Emma Shortis     |      November 6, 2024

    America teeters on a knife-edge as it finally goes to the polls and whatever the result – and however long it takes to come through – the divisions and conspiracy theories that have destabilised US politics in recent years will not be easily or quickly resolved.

  • The end of pax Americana?

    Michael Pezzullo     |      November 6, 2024

    A policy of American isolationism under a second Trump administration – or even a future democratic one – would imperil not just the future of Ukraine, Taiwan and Israel but potentially peace across the whole world.

  • Trump v Planet Earth

    Amitabh Mattoo     |      November 6, 2024

    The re-election of Donald Trump would not just be a disaster for American domestic and foreign policy, but could damage the whole world’s fight against climate change.

  • D-Day for democracy

    Adrian Beaumont     |      November 5, 2024

    Here’s your Australian election day guide to the US Presidential election which remains on a knife-edge, with Trump and Harris neck and neck in the final polls.

  • Xtra, xtra

    Gwilym David Blunt     |      November 5, 2024

    When the richest man in the world and a populist presidential candidate team up for an election then may X marks the spot where US democracy is most at risk

  • The meaning of Trump

    Graeme Dobell     |      November 3, 2024

    Win or lose on 5 November, the popularity of Donald Trump tells us all too much about where the United States is heading as ‘the dysfunctional superpower’.

  • The new authoritarian playbook

    Geoff Boucher     |      October 31, 2024

    Donald Trump is not an old-fashioned fascist, despite his opponents claims, but he is an anti-democratic authoritarian would would hobble democracy to entrench power if – incredible though it seems – he was elected a second time.

  • Triple threat

    Bill Wyman     |      October 27, 2024

    It seems incredible that a failed pro-Putin President with a string of criminal convictions and an attempt to overthrow American democracy itself under his belt may still be re-elected to power, so what might explain Trump’s apparently impervious appeal to his cult followers?

  • Battleground USA

    Emma Shortis     |      October 26, 2024

    The upcoming American Presidential election will be fought and won in the key swing states of Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Georgia, Nevada, Arizona, North Carolina.

  • Jimmy Carter’s century

    Christopher Simmonds     |      October 2, 2024

    Jimmy Carter is turning 100 years old and will be remembered as much for his common human decency out of office as his single term in the White House.

  • Inside the madhouse

    Open Forum     |      September 29, 2024

    A new insider account of the insanity, ignorance and traitorous conduct of the Trump administration offers a stark warning against re-electing him in November’s Presidential election.

  • After Trump

    Christopher Pollard     |      September 19, 2024

    Donald Trump’s narcissistic, self serving and moronic cult of personality has captured what was once a proud Republican party, so what are the alternatives?