Over the past few years, though, I have watched versions of reckoning with China unfold across very different milieus, each shaped by a unique vantage point. For Kaiser’s generation of American ...

Since 2006, the Economist Intelligence Unit has measured the quality of democracy in 167 countries and territories across the world. Its last index, for 2024, was published in February. Over the past ...

Here, Haydon’s film is a point of flexion where a narrative of the passing race is confronted by one of resistance and revitalisation. Trukanini’s reburial campaign was a significant event for a new ...

Sovereign is based on the true story of a deadly encounter between Jerry and Joseph Kane, a father and son, and West Memphis police officers in Arkansas. Swegal’s film concludes more or less where the ...

A new album from the Icelandic pianist Víkingur Ólafsson is a journey up to, through and away from Beethoven’s piano sonata in E major, Op. 109, the music making, as we’ve come to expect from Ólafsson ...

“I cannot live with You —” goes Emily Dickinson’s poem. “It would be Life —/ And Life is over there —/ Behind the Shelf.” Once upon a time many Australian homes had the books of Patrick White out ...

Other Voices Why do we still have so many radiologists? Noah Smith 17 October 2025 AI model-makers predicted a sharp dropoff in jobs. So far, reality is refusing to oblige ...

National affairs The everyday threat of sovereign citizen pseudolaw Harry Hobbs & Stephen Young 29 August 2025 Behind the violence of its most extreme adherents is a web of groups active at the ...

National affairs Tomorrow’s problem Saul Eslake 26 March 2025 The 2025–26 budget had one modest surprise, but leaves a lot to the next parliament (and probably parliaments after that) National affairs ...

Books & arts Engineering China’s future Michael Gill 17 October 2025 Sometimes the only things scarier than China’s problems are Beijing’s solutions, says seasoned observer Dan Wang ...

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 ...