Trump may drown in his own cesspool

Trump has tried to bend America’s legal system to his will with flagrant disregard for the proper separation of powers, but despite his ever increasing vindictiveness, he’s facing pushback.

Regime change

No matter how venal, stupid and petty you thought the Trump administration is, a new book by Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan shows the thuggish reality is much, much worse.

Does Trump have dementia?

Speculation has grown about US President Donald Trump’s ever more erratic behaviour with commentators wondering if his malignant narcissism is actually a symptom of Alzheimer’s disease or frontotemporal dementia.

No Trump November?

The forecasts for November’s midterm elections are moving in the Democrats direction, especially for taking control of the House, but history offers hope for Republicans, despite Trump’s ever more eccentric behaviour and plummeting poll ratings.

A world without the USA

Canberra can no longer assume that Washington will underpin regional stability or the rules-based order, the foundational premise of modern Australian strategic planning. Australian policymakers must grapple with the prospect that the destabilising behaviour of US President Donald Trump’s administration is not a temporary aberration.

Master of the universe

Donald Trump’s unfettered determination to wield absolute power at home and abroad in his pursuit of his ever more unhinged agenda threatens to plunge the world into chaos and break the back of American democracy.

Maduro as hell

Donald Trump’s kidnapping of Venuzuela’s President and potential annexation of Greenland may accelerate the splitting of the world into 3 authoritarian spheres of influence, with Russia allowed to take Europe and China to dominate the Pacific in Asia in return for an isolationist, imperialist USA dominating the American continents.

The great power carve up

Rather than oppose the naked aggression of authoritarian states like Russia and China, Donald Trump’s America has chosen to join them, signalling the end of the liberal international order and a carve up of the world into three baleful spheres of influence.

Trump’s battered wife

Donald Trump’s abuse of the political norms and expectations of the United States resembles to coercion and abuse of a battered wife.

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.