A pacey dramatisation of News International’s phone-hacking and influence-wielding leaves the story necessarily unfinished ...

The Chinese-owned video platform has become the largest source of news for Australians under twenty-five. Now Donald Trump wants it run in America by the Murdochs and other friendly plutocrats ...

America’s domestic weaknesses only serve to convince China, America’s main rival, that the age of democracy is on the wane. Trump’s re-election in November 2024 constitutes a confirmation, if not an ...

When Russian drones entered Poland on the night of 9–10 September, I was across the border in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv. As has happened so often since February 2022, sirens had warned of incoming ...

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 ...

Books & arts If something can’t go on forever, it will stop John Quiggin 14 August 2025 A pessimistic account of the world’s population future offers no good reasons to panic about low birth rates ...

Other Voices Bodies by Joe Alma Guillermoprieto 20 August 2025 With his strange machines and uncanny understanding of muscles, Joseph Pilates created an entirely new technique ...

Madison Griffiths’s probing new book begins with “a curiosity worth sweating over.” She’s on the other side of a relationship ...

It is salutary to turn on the television on the morning after the biggest landslide to the Labor Party since 1943 and the Liberal Party’s worst-ever election defeat. We must have had Sky on by the ...

Housing affordability is the barbecue stopper of the moment. Both state and Commonwealth governments have declared it a priority. But before governments launch into policy changes, it’s worth ...

In Ontario, Canada’s most populous province, 93 per cent of children attend public schools. In Alberta, the province that topped Canada for reading and science in the latest round of OECD tests, ...