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During the 2016 US presidential campaign, people around the world were regularly reassured by election experts that Donald Trump was too outrageous to be elected president.
Reflecting this conventional wisdom, Hilary Clinton campaign’s...
This week, Donald Trump, the 45th man to occupy the office, marked his 1000th day as President of the United States. The same milestone was commemorated by Arthur Schlesinger Jr’s elegiac history and...
For every Democrat who wants to know who their presidential candidate will be in 2020, you're going to have to wait a while longer.
China will be the ultimate winner if the cost to Americans hits home in an election year.
The whistle-blower scandal reveals something essential about Donald Trump’s repeatedly questionable and idiosyncratic behaviour.
Chinese authorities have hinted that they may use their dominant position as a supplier of rare earths and associated manufactured goods to retaliate against US restrictions on high technology exports to China. China...
There is a magic to rare earths, the set of 17 elements that appears halfway down the periodic table. Discovered at the birth of the industrial age in the late 1700s, rare earths...
When people think of monetary policy, they usually think of the Reserve Bank of Australia changing its official cash rate.
This is the rate at which banks borrow and lend to each other...
In light of a slew of stories about phone calls and presidential favours, Prime Minister Scott Morrison's sheening new Trump moniker — "man of titanium" — has led some quarters to task him...
The odds of Trump being impeached are uncertain. But the impeachment inquiry will lead to political turmoil, writes Gorana Grgic.
While Australians are concerned about the rise of China – and the United States’ ability to handle it – Americans appear to be more complacent, according to a new USSC-YouGov poll.
US President Donald Trump’s conversation with Scott Morrison, seeking Australian co-operation with a US Justice Department investigation of the Mueller inquiry, is procedurally routine yet politically extraordinary.
Australian and US governments co-operate on...
The Dead Don’t Die is – in a manner of thinking – Jim Jarmusch’s second zombie film. Technically, Only Lovers Left Alive (2013) is a vampire film, but its central character, the...
Scott Morrison joined US President Donald Trump at the weekend in subtly changing the economic conversation with respect to China. Not so long ago it was largely a one-sided debate about what we...
The US made no big ask of Scott Morrison in exchange for dinner on the White House lawn. But there are still many unresolved questions.
As Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison prepares for the rare honour of a state dinner at the Trump White House on Friday, a new poll shows Americans believe they have no better friend than Australia.
The aerial strikes on oil facilities in Saudi Arabia last weekend offer a glimpse of the future of warfare.
The largest disruption of global oil supplies on record wasn’t caused by a bomber...
In the four volumes of his biography of Lyndon Johnson, begun more than four decades ago, and in his earlier masterpiece, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York...
Bolton’s ouster makes clear the US president’s policy isn’t “America first”, but “Trump first”.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s official visit to Washington this week carries some prestige. It is just the second “official visit” (including a state dinner) by a foreign leader during the Trump presidency, and...
