• America first

    Elizabeth Buchanan     |      January 24, 2025

    The litany of executive orders that have dropped on the White House website tell us plenty about what Australia can expect from a second Trump term’s foreign policies.

  • Revenge and retribution

    Emma Shortis     |      January 22, 2025

    In his inaugural address, Trump outlined a radical agenda to reshape American life and the United States’ role in the world.

  • Trump’s new world order

    Stefan Wolff     |      January 20, 2025

    Donald Trump’s foreign policy ideas – from annexing Canada to surrendering Europe to Russia – sound like the plot of a Hollywood satire, but are about to become a reality.

  • Preparing for Trump

    Malcolm Davis     |      January 19, 2025

    How should Australia react to the likely geo-political priorities of Donald Trump’s second term in power?

  • Why Trump won

    Bernie O'Kane     |      December 21, 2024

    Donald Trump’s chaotic first term exposed a litany of faults to the American people, yet his bombastic style and calls for change secured re-election at a canter this year. What can an in-depth analysis of his first term and a Guardian survey of voter attitudes in 2024 tell us about the man who, for better or worse, now stands at the cusp of four more years of power?

  • Why the ‘lost boys’ love Trump

    Kate Scott     |      November 13, 2024

    Young white working class males in the USA revolted en masse against the ‘woke’ agenda associated with their generation to propel Donald Trump back into the White House.

  • The triumph of Trump

    Jared Mondschein     |      November 7, 2024

    For better or worse, the American electorate has propelled Donald Trump back into power, so what will happen now?

  • 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?

  • Plan B for President Z

    Kim Beazley     |      March 14, 2024

    It seems unthinkable, but the re-election of Donald Trump to the American presidency remains a real possibility, with calamitous implications not only for the United States and western Liberal democracy but Australia’s defence plans.

  • American Psycho

    Andrea Kendall-Taylor     |      February 1, 2024

    Donald Trump seems certain to secure nomination as the Republican candidate for the 2024 Presidential election, because rather than despite his crude attempts to overthrow the result of the last election and his manifest contempt for democratic norms and legal procedure.

  • Typhoon Trump

    Emma Shortis     |      January 17, 2024

    Republicans in Iowa have overwhelmingly backed Donald Trump for the 2024 nomination, perhaps because – rather than despite – Trump’s contempt for democracy and American political norms.