January
ICE shootings confirm Trump’s flailing autocracy
Donald Trump won office with immigration as his strongest issue, but he has turned ICE into a menacing paramilitary and the public is turning sharply against it.
Trump’s ‘Chuck Norris’ moment is about more than petrol prices
The US promises change in Venezuela and traders immediately think about the oil numbers. But there is a bigger message for us in Australia.
December 2025
US presidential contender backs Australia’s social media ban
Democratic heavyweight Rahm Emanuel, a contender for the 2028 election and Barack Obama’s former staffer, says the US should also ban social media for kids.
Why MAGA hates Europe so much
Having lost so many battles at home, it is easier on the ego to look abroad for societies to redeem. The attack on Europe is a disguised self-reproach.
November 2025
Trump pardons Giuliani and others who tried to overturn US election
The move underscores the US president’s attempt to rewrite history after his supporters violently attacked the US Capitol to illegally restore him to power.
September 2025
Kirk killing is a reckoning for cancel culture at the barrel of a gun
The normalisation of political violence is a tragic reflection of the perilous state of American democracy, which has been fractured by intense polarisation.
August 2025
Musk to drop ‘America Party’ and support Vance instead
The Tesla CEO has thought better of annoying the Republicans and may put his vast financial power behind the vice president’s possible 2028 run.
July 2025
‘Rob the poor to pay the rich’: Trump’s big, beautiful act of self-harm
Many Republicans could lose their seats in Congress as a result of the president’s “reverse Robin Hood” budget. The economics is terrible for everyone.
May 2025
Joe Biden ‘didn’t recognise’ friend George Clooney, new book says
The book promises explosive details on the former US president’s mental and physical decline while in office and how his aides and top Democrats handled it.
April 2025
Trump is boosting left-wing victories. That’s bad news for Dutton
America’s president is harming, not helping, other conservative leaders. But what is the reaction within the US?
January 2025
‘Giddy’: Billionaire line-up shows what’s at the heart of Trump 2.0
Stanley Druckenmiller is right. Business is giddy about Donald Trump’s second coming, but investors need to be a little more cautious, particularly in the early part of this presidency.
Can Trump deliver on his promises?
As he lays out his lofty ambitions, the president has learnt the lessons of his previous term and knows he has only a short window of time to act.
ASX to rise as traders welcome Trump’s return. $A hangs in the balance
The local sharemarket is optimistic, despite concerns Trump’s first acts as president could spell trouble. Wall Street ruled off its best week since the US election.
Coronation day: the world waits to see which Trump will show up
Billionaires, big tech execs and power brokers will be out in force at Inauguration Day next week as the world braces for Donald Trump’s second term.
Trump’s presidential portrait looks like his mug shot. Here’s why
Donald Trump is a master of retail politics. For proof, just look at the similarity between a photo taken at Fulton County jail in 2023 and his official presidential headshot.
Heed the election lesson of America and Argentina
This is shaping to be the year of licence and experimentation in politics, where the unthinkable can not just be thought, it can be said and done.
December 2024
Phil King, John Hempton hit as Trump rally burns short sellers
Australia’s highest-profile hedge funds have posted falls amid a wave of investor euphoria flooding global markets since the president-elect’s shock victory last month.
Pratt made late $15m donation to Trump campaign
The president-elect’s political operation received an influx of cash days before the election from wealthy donors, including the Australian billionaire.
Meet the Australian fundies making a motza from the return of Trump
Bitcoin at $US100,000, stockmarkets setting records as tech and banking soars. These local investors are grabbing every opportunity to make big returns.
November 2024
How Rio and BHP got caught in a three-way Trump squeeze
Rio Tinto and BHP maintain their relations in Beijing, buddy up to the new team in Washington and try to protect their interests in Canada. But it could just work out for the pair.
