Trump's White House
Opinion
Globalisation
When Trump says the world’s ‘a little crazy right now’, you know it’s bad
We should rethink the designation of 2024 as the year of democracy and think of it as the year when everything, everywhere, all at once seemed to go off the rails.
- by Nick Bryant
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Before you swallow Dutton’s nukes, look at the evidence
So, Peter Dutton tells us that his nuclear policy will be cheaper than Labor’s renewables policy. I would recommend to readers the Climate Council’s myth-busting article “The seven ways the federal Coalition could cook the books on nuclear costings”.
ABC chair Kim Williams v Joe Rogan: Australia makes its choice
Their spat went global – now the numbers are in.
- by Stephen Brook, Kishor Napier-Raman and Calum Jaspan
Clouds gather over Pete Hegseth’s nomination as Trump’s Pentagon chief
The Fox News presenter has vowed he would “never back down” even as other names are floated for the role, including one-time Trump rival Ron DeSantis.
- by Farrah Tomazin
Opinion
Joe Biden
Joe Biden can be blamed for many things, but pardoning his son is not one of them
There’s no doubt Joe Biden has a case to answer after pardoning his son Hunter, but the hype around this story is out of all proportion.
- by Bill Wyman
Presidential pardon melds fatherly care and hypocrisy
Perhaps if President Biden had confidence that the administration of justice under incoming President Donald Trump would be fair and rational, he might have felt able to withhold this pardon.
Opinion
US Votes 2024
Trump is America’s Caligula. His mission is to destroy what made America great
Donald Trump’s bizarre appointments are alarming, but perhaps more worrying is who he wants to fire. Trump’s war on the so-called “deep state” is an assault on the apparatus that built America to greatness.
- by Nick Bryant
If the Libs offered more pros, there might be no ‘con job’
I voted for Nicolette Boele in the last federal election not because Paul Fletcher was part of one of the worst governments ever inflicted upon this country, but apparently because I am such a stupid woman I had no idea what I was doing.
‘It was bound to happen’: Why fashion is going back to being binary
Gender exploration by luxury labels is slowing down alongside the rise of trad wives.
- by Damien Woolnough
The truth about Trump will not be found in America
In America any article on Trump would be written off as belonging to one camp or the other and thus only read by true believers in one of the camps.
Loyal and feisty, Donald Trump Jr emerges as enforcer for his father
An important purity test for nominees is whether would-be nominees support the lie that Donald Trump won the 2020 election.
- by Katie Rogers