Category: USA

Seven months after Donald Trump was inaugurated for a second term as US president, we are facing the most important moment in Australia’s foreign policy since the Iraq war. Australia needs to have a national conversation on the future of its alliance with the United States. (more…)

For several decades, there were major gains globally in access to family planning and reproductive health services. (more…)

Many Americans are persuaded by persistent claims that crime is rising, even when they are not. Critics say the media’s rampant coverage of violent crime has helped to warp their perceptions. (more…)

Smithsonian exhibits should be “accurate, patriotic, and enlightening – ensuring they remain places of learning, wonder and national pride for generations to come”, the White House demanded. (more…)

Vladimir Putin has met five US presidents over 25 years. But jazz and fishing have given way to threats and tension. The Alaska summit will be the Russian leader’s 49th meeting with a US counterpart. (more…)

“The administration is setting the stage for election subversion. This power play poses a grave threat to the future of US election infrastructure. It is also, in many respects, illegal.” (more…)

The Albanese Government has recently handed over a second tranche of some $800 million Australian tax-payers’ dollars to the United States, with the total now more than a billion dollars. This is part of the most woeful con job ever in the grim history of Australia’s defence procurement record – AUKUS. (more…)