Over the past few years, though, I have watched versions of reckoning with China unfold across very different milieus, each shaped by a unique vantage point. For Kaiser’s generation of American ...

Since 2006, the Economist Intelligence Unit has measured the quality of democracy in 167 countries and territories across the world. Its last index, for 2024, was published in February. Over the past ...

Indonesian president Prabowo Subianto’s first state visit to Australia earlier this month had two major results, the first of which would once have been considered security-related and the second ...

Leftist online personality Hasan Piker recently took a trip to China and — like many other influencers who have been there — declared it to be a paradise, praising “abundance-style consumption paired ...

Albania is one of those Balkan countries too easily misunderstood, overlooked or stereotyped, with a history most conveniently described as “complicated.” One person who has helped the wider world get ...

The proceedings of the Marine Environment Protection Committee of the International Maritime Organization don’t normally make headline news. (Except perhaps in Ocean Freight Times.) But the ...

Near the old Hyde Park Barracks in Sydney a stark slab of wall, angled outward from a glass background, houses a table and a leaning potato-digging spade known as a loy. The glass panels behind it are ...

The federal Coalition appears miles, light years, away from regaining office. It attracted a record low number of primary and two-party-preferred votes and seats in May. It is seriously split, with an ...

It was much more sedate than most Murdoch headlines: “News Corp Announces Resolution of Murdoch Family Trust Matter.” That innocuous phrase, “family trust matter,” hid the deep schism within the ...

It’s been forty years since Mark Aarons, an ABC reporter, broke the news that Nazi war criminals were living in peaceful obscurity in Australian suburbia. What followed was astonishing for a country ...

The most striking observation in Dean Spears and Michael Geruso’s new book, After the Spike, is summed up by the cover illustration, which shows a world population rising rapidly to its current eight ...

Tasmania presents something of a political conundrum. Back in May 2023 its Liberal government fell into minority after the defection of two members, John Tucker and Lara Alexander. Premier Jeremy ...