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South China Morning Post
A recent speech by Chinese President Xi Jinping China is eager to reassure its nieghbours, and the US in particular, that its intentions in the regions are benign. Visiting...
The President should admit he allowed the Islamic State caliphate to grow and he must be the one to destroy it
US News & World Report
Sony's decision to pull from theatres its film The Interview after a group called Guardians of Peace threatened to attack cinemas is understandable but disappointing, says research associate...
History Today
Barack Obama's move to normalise US–Cuba relations has been seen as a shift away from Cold War thinking, but research associate Marc Palen says the unequal balance between the countries has existed...
As the ranks of women jurists grow, women have largely disappeared from the consideration of the Supreme Court’s conservative majority
The lessons of this Gulf State’s tough but justifiable immigration policies
US News & World Report
Since the Senate Intelligence Committee released its report on CIA torture, Dick Cheney has been one of its fiercest critics. Research associate Nicole Hemmer says the former vice president's...
Scotland provides the independence movements in Europe with helpful tips, but not a blueprint
The Australian
America is basically a good and decent country with powerful self-correcting mechanisms, says research associate Tom Switzer. But the practices revealed in the Senate's report on CIA torture, along with other...
US News & World Report
As 2014 ends, American news is filled with accusations of police violence and allegation that universities aren't taking sexual assault seriously enough. Research associate Nicole Hemmer says too many...
ABC The Drum Online
In New York, for the second time in two weeks, a grand jury failed to indict a police officer who killed a black man. Lecturer David Smith profiles the white...
When it comes to women and the workforce, Australia and the United States are trailing the rest of the West
The Age
In this edited version of an essay that originally appeared in American Review, director of W21 — the 21st Century Women's Initiative — Melissa Grah-McIntosh says that when it comes to women and...
How Republican lions set the scene for the triumph of movement conservatism in the United States
US News & World Report
MSNBC host Joe Scarborough says the riots in Ferguson are not a criminal justice issue and that he's had enough of Michael Brown being "the face of black...
Quadrant Magazine
The mission to degrade and destroy the Islamic State terror group sounds like a noble and just cause, but the process of eradicating what is essentially a disparate group of Sunni...
US News & World Report
With Thanksgiving rapidly approaching in the US, research associate Nicole Hemmer looks at the essential role that undocumented workers play in making the traditional holiday feast possible.
AIIA Australian Outlook
The congressional polls represent not just a Republican victory with a vengeance, but a profound crisis of confidence, according to research associate Tom Switzer.
The Lowy Interpreter
The unexpected resignation of Secretary for Defense Chuck Hagel put the Obama administration's foreign policy failures back under the spotlight. Research associate Tom Switzer says the problem lay in the President's...
Climate change is parching the planet: from China to California, the world is drying out
