Whether comical or conceptual, political or geographic, Saul Steinberg’s drawings extend the viewer’s horizons ...

Vivek Ramaswamy and Elon Musk want to drastically cut government jobs. Dan Honig makes the case for better not fewer ...

Stretching the year back into late 2023 — an equally hostile environment for governments but with far fewer national elections — Poland’s authoritarian Law and Justice party was shown the door after ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Essays & reportage People-watching in Port Moresby Gordon Peake 14 September 2024 Our correspondent reacquaints himself with the PNG capital, a place getting a lot more attention these days ...