How should Albanese handle Trump?

Anthony Albanese will meet Donald Trump in Washington on 20 October, the first official meeting between the two leaders since Trump’s inauguration in January, so how should Australia’s Prime Minister handle the encounter?

Stand back and stand by

Donald Trump’s unchecked descent into authoritarian insanity continues to gain pace with his plan to use America’s military against its own people.

Trump’s contempt for press freedom

United States President Donald Trump is well advanced in his systematic campaign to undermine the American media and eviscerate its traditional function of holding people in power to account.

Trump’s new brand of McCarthyism

The murder of Trumpian activist Charlie Kirk has sparked a coordinated campaign against critics of the Trump regime that echoes one of the darkest chapters in American history.

Trump’s assault on democracy

Donald Trump is never less than brazen in his contempt for democratic norms and he’s been quick to use Charlie Kirk’s killing as a pretext for crushing dissent and demonising any political opposition.

The right hand man’s right hand man

libertarian tech titan Peter Thiel helped make JD Vance. The Republican kingmaker’s influence is growing

The wrong answers to the right questions

New York Times columnist David Brooks once remarked that Donald Trump is the wrong answer to the right questions—a sentiment that captures the core challenge facing US policy in East Asia.

Trump’s Pacific own goal

The second Trump administration’s gutting of key international development agencies has severely undermined its ostensible goal of combating Chinese influence in the Pacific, so what can it do to repair its regional strategy?

Enough is enough

Australia has bent over backwards to survive the Trump 2.0 whirlwind, but at some point we’ll have to stand tall.

Backsliding into tyranny

The United States is moving dangerously close to authoritarianism as the second Trump administration shows no regard for law, democratic processes or political freedoms.

A letter to America

Donald Trump’s quest to ‘make America great again’ is measured only in money and is destroying the values which made America great in the first place.

Tornado Trump

Trump seems determined to take the “Hugo Chavez” option in wrecking a national economy through ideological zeal while holding on to power through a combination of repression and targeted patronage for loyalists.