Books & arts History’s hinge Jon Richardson 9 December 2024 How will competition and cooperation between Russia and China in Central Asia affect the global balance of power?

In Notes from Underground,” Frank asserts, the writing explodes and implodes and all the time the writer is trapped inside it, not only unable to get out, but unable to see what he has gotten himself ...

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She’s lost track of the number of times she has been asked to quantify her Indian identity, “sometimes by complete strangers.” Blood quantum as a measure of heredity and skin colour, both ...

The shock jolted passengers a little, but the big orange BJP bus continues to roll down the road to Hindutva, the promised land of a Hindu supremacist state. The results of the seven weeks of voting ...

Future MP Race Mathews had an insider’s view of policy development — not least health policy — in the office of the leader of ...

Part two of A Dictator Calls takes us decades away from Stalin and Pasternak. It is 2015 and the writer still can’t rid ...

National affairs Peter Dutton’s road to nowhere Peter Brent 28 August 2024 The opposition leader has an electorally ineffective obsession ...

As Washington representative of Australia’s Office of National Intelligence, or ONI, for most of Donald Trump’s first presidential term, Ben Scott had a ringside seat on the convulsions in America’s ...

Some election results are widely anticipated. Some arrive as a big surprise. Others lie somewhere in between. Scott Morrison’s 2019 “miracle” is the most recent example clearly falling in the second ...