Why wait for the October Surprise to upend the US presidential election? Why not one in July? Why not the retirement of Justice Clarence Thomas? There are rumours — and denials — swirling...

William Henry Harrison is largely remembered for one fact in his presidential career. Elected in November 1840, at the age of 68, Harrison is the shortest-serving US president, holding office for only 31...

Curtis Sittenfeld has a knack of putting her readers in uncomfortable places in her fiction. In her short story “Gender Studies” she puts you in the middle of a hotel tryst between a...

USSC director of foreign policy and defence Ashley Townshend wrote correspondence that was published in the July 2020 edition of Australian Foreign Affairs.