Donald Rumsfeld, architect of invasion and torture, dies peacefully and unmolested. The results of his work live on.
Category: United States
No surprise in Iran
Iran shifts sharply to the right, with its moderate but unsuccessful president to be replaced by a hardliner. Does that make diplomatic engagement a waste of time?
Saving American democracy
Initial efforts by the Biden presidency to fend off threats to democracy in the United States are not going so well. Perhaps it's time to try a new angle.
Bennett takes over
Israel finally gets a new government, and both it and the rest of the world can start to confront the legacy of Benjamin Netanyahu.
A postmortem on 2020 forecasting
Nate Silver at FiveThirtyEight.com reviews his site's performance in last year's election, with interesting results.
Liz Cheney goes down
The purging of Liz Cheney is another signal of the United States entering very dark territory. The lesson for Australia needs to be heeded.
France’s far right plays to the base
A year out from France's presidential election, Emmanuel Macron's strongest card is once again the disunity of his opponents, and especially the fact that the far right is at the head of the pack.
New numbers for America
New census figures for the United States are good news for the Republican Party, but not as much so as they might have expected.
Dealing with Putin
Russia's president no longer has a friend in the White House, but his strategic aims, such as they are, remain the same. Joe Biden faces the challenge of how to respond.
Victory in the drug war?
The momentum for marijuana legalisation in the United States now seems unstoppable, but the lessons may not generalise to other countries and other issues.
