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Media's creation and coverage of Oprah's possible presidential ambition is emblematic of the rot at the core of contemporary political analysis, writes USSC honorary associate Dr Nicole Hemmer for US News & World...
The men of film, television, and radio who have been charged with sexual harassment and abuse are rapidly disappearing from the entertainment landscape as shows and movies they appear in are being pulled...
Steve Bannon went to war with Donald Trump. At least, he tried to. In recently published excerpts from Michael Wolff's new book, Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House, Bannon lashed...
The Trump administration’s first national security strategy, released yesterday, is contradictory in places and ironic in others. Its policy prescriptions, when set against the actions of Donald Trump, are of questionable credibility.
But...
As Starc and Hazlewood were knocking over the English resistance in Perth, Australian hackers have been deploying a "Cyberline'' approach of their own.
The United States will endanger itself if it accedes to Russian and Chinese efforts to change the international system to their liking. Professor of global affairs at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced...
As I outlined in part 1, America and, by extension, Australia are losing their military-technological edge in the Indo-Pacific. A new type of great-power competition is emerging throughout the region—one that involves a...
It's supposed to be the final sitting week of US Congress for 2017 here in Washington, DC, but much of the conversation is fixated on what its two houses will look like in 2018. Roy...
The US Congress could scuttle the nuclear deal with Iran this week. But it's unlikely to do so.
Donald Trump has railed against the deal since his campaign. In a speech on 13 October...
The 2017 foreign policy white paper reiterated the need for Australia to ‘advance our values and our national interests’ and to deepen ties with the US. The revived Friends of Australia Congressional Caucus...
As the war in Syria edges closer to its seventh year, there is scant reason for optimism that a lasting internationally brokered peace settlement is likely to surface. To date, Syrian peace talks...
America’s military-technological advantage, an aspect of its strategic power since the end of the Cold War, is eroding. In response, the Pentagon launched the third offset strategy in 2014—a department-wide effort to find...
In Hugh White’s latest Quarterly Essay, he argues that “America will lose, and China will win” in Asia. China’s power has continued to grow stronger “economically, militarily and diplomatically” and America’s resolve...
In the latest edition of the Security Challenges journal, USSC research fellow Dougal Robinson describes how relations between the United States and Australia have stabilised after the infamous Trump-Turnbull phone call in January...
The Third Offset strategy is perceived as a solution to matching the US defence budget with US strategic ambitions; to find means of sustaining its military-technological advantage in this new era of great...
Australia seems on the brink of embracing space in a coordinated manner, but how should we do it?
This week, the Australian government released three reports to help chart the future of Australia’s...
The release of the Foreign Policy White Paper last week has sparked heated debate about the rapidly evolving Indo-Pacific region, Australia’s role and our strategic assumptions. One line caught my eye: “Military modernisation in...
Two Defence Department space projects 50 years apart have neat parallels. On 29 November 1967, Australia’s first satellite, WREsat, developed by a forerunner of the Defence Science and Technology Group, was launched from...
The state institutions portrayed in the HBO crime procedural True Detective are innately and structurally corrupt. Local mayors’, state governors’, and district attorneys’ offices, city and county police, and sheriff’s departments commit and...
Ronald Reagan was the last US president to pass comprehensive tax reform. Reagan worked with both parties in Congress to achieve broad bipartisan support for the Tax Reform Act of 1986.
While the...
