Experts note that Russia could have been targeting Poland strategically to disrupt logistical support for Ukraine, given that Poland’s border regions are crucial transport arteries. The drones’ route ...

In Gallup’s original polling manifesto, intensity hadn’t mattered: if a poll was a “sampling referendum” designed to guide ...

This book complicates that tapestry.” It does this by taking “children seriously as the authors of their own lives.” People told Gallagher that the sources for the story she wanted to write — children ...

Dominique Moïsi is an eminent French international relations expert, a scholar trained in Paris now teaching at Kings College in London and Harvard. In The Triumph of Emotions — in one of several ...

Back in April 2015 Tony Abbott’s environment minister, Greg Hunt, boasted of the “stunning success” of the first “auction” under his government’s Emissions Reduction Fund. The ERF was the centrepiece ...

Hussein Agha and Robert Malley have offered a needed reality-check on the eve of next week’s UN session on the Gaza war, which will be defined by the phrase, “two-state solution.” In their newly ...

Francesca Wade’s elegant new biography, Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife, is composed in two parts: the first, a relatively conventional biography in which the events of Stein’s life are interwoven with ...

Over the past couple of years sophisticated and informed critiques of Australia’s security policies have become increasingly common. Unfortunately, however, there seems to be an inverse relationship ...

National affairs Crimes Act’s cyber tidy-up Karen Middleton 4 July 2025 An auspiciously timed amendment to departmental responsibilities highlights a long delay in federal electronic-surveillance ...

Essays & reportage Lidia Thorpe, the UN Declaration and the mob out there Tim Rowse 20 March 2025 Despite her weakness for hyperbole, the high-profile senator has proposed a simple way of bringing ...

National affairs Safety in numbers? Murray Goot 10 March 2025 How reliable is the exotic new breed of seat-by-seat political polls? Essays & reportage From Indigenous recognition to the Voice, and ...