Elites we would become — or at least those of us who won our tickets to prestigious universities.

The Kazakh president thought he’d been palmed off with second-rate visitors, but the vice-regal Australians eventually got under his guard ...

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 ...

If the biggest political surprise in 2025 was the Albanese government’s emphatic re-election, the second has been the gradual surge in One Nation support since then. From a disappointing election ...

PIX was a phenomenon, a magazine that brought images of ordinary and not-so-ordinary life into homes and workplaces, documenting Australia and the wider world — sometimes brutally, sometimes ...

Donald Trump’s second term is going no better than his first. He has failed to end the war in Ukraine, failed to put forward a plan on healthcare, and failed to cut government spending. Inflation is ...

Given the torrential rainstorms that battered the Brazilian city of Belém as COP30 concluded a couple of weeks ago, it wouldn’t be strictly accurate to say that the dust has settled on the latest UN ...

Mary Bronstein’s If I Had Legs I’d Kick You begins with the tightest of closeups of one of Rose Byrne’s eyeballs. And that relentless sense of proximity never really lets up; this is a film that ...

Leftist online personality Hasan Piker recently took a trip to China and — like many other influencers who have been there — declared it to be a paradise, praising “abundance-style consumption paired ...

The proceedings of the Marine Environment Protection Committee of the International Maritime Organization don’t normally make headline news. (Except perhaps in Ocean Freight Times.) But the ...

This week’s shocking violence in the small Victorian town of Porepunkah has shone a spotlight on the potential threats to police posed by “sovereign citizens.” But this movement has a much broader ...