Kartlis Deda (or Mother of Georgia) is a twenty-metre statue of a woman holding a cup of wine in one hand and a sword in the ...

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With almost half the world’s population voting in national or Europe-wide elections during 2024, Time magazine declared it “the ultimate election year.” Now it’s almost over we can stand back and try ...

Peter Dutton’s declaration that he will not stand next to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander flags turns the arc of Australian history off the path it seemed to be on thirty years ago. Then, in ...

Saul Steinberg’s All in Line was a triumph when it was first published in June 1945. The New York Times praised it, there was a positive notice in Art News, and LIFE magazine reproduced examples with ...

Two narratives compete about public administration. One is captured by Georgetown University’s Dan Honig in his new book, Mission Driven Bureaucrats. It assumes government can make a positive ...

Should we have seen it coming? With the benefit of hindsight, Donald Trump’s victory seems to have been inevitable, and the excitement of journalists reporting a closely contested presidential ...

The sudden collapse of the Assad regime is one of those “in retrospect it was inevitable but no one saw it coming” moments. Exactly where it leaves Syria is still unclear, so it is also one of those ...

If song lyrics were treated as poetry, Taylor Swift would be the most popular poet in history. She even invokes the romantic image of the poète maudit — the cursed poet; the poet who is mad, bad and ...

Books & arts In the face of death Jacinta Halloran 1 November 2024 Life’s binaries bleed into each other in a spirited memoir shadowed by a terminal illness ...

National affairs Manufacturing’s security blanket Saul Eslake 26 August 2024 Labor’s Future Made in Australia policy risks entrenching opaque subsidies in a favoured sector ...