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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...
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...
How Republican lions set the scene for the triumph of movement conservatism in the United States
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
As mayhem spreads across Iraq, the British people and their institutions have paid a huge price for the intervention
Fairfax Media
With the 2016 presidential election still two years away, is predicting the contenders in the contest this early a fool's errand? Associate professor Brendon O'Connor says history offers a guide to whom...
The Lowy Interpreter
Australia's Minister for Foreign Affairs Julie Bishop has pushed back against comments in Brisbane by US President Barack Obama. Research associate James Curran looks at the history of how Australian and...
The Guardian
Pundits have criticised Prime Minister Tony Abbott for his inaction on climate at the G20, but research associate Tom Switzer says US domestic politics highlight the wisdom of the Australia leader's actions.
US News & World Report
Republicans might not like Barack Obama's planned executive action on immigration reform, but research associate Nicole Hemmer says the President is on safe ground legally, politically, and morally.
US News & World Report
Two years out from the 2016 presidential election, Hillary Clinton's nomination as the Democratic Party's candidate seems all but inevitable. Research associate Nicole Hemmer warns that an uncontested race...
