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  • INTERNATIONAL

    The roots of American discontent

    • Nirmal Ghosh
    • 14 March 2025

    Donald Trump’s return to the White House was the culmination of decades of economic decline, political disillusionment, and cultural fracture, forces the liberal elite ignored at their peril. As Trump reshapes America’s role in the world, his rise reveals hard truths about democracy, populism, and power in the 21st century.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Change of era, or era of change?

    • Andrew Hamilton
    • 13 March 2025

    What feels like turbulence in the present often reveals itself, in hindsight, as the rupture of an era. From the fall of Rome to the upheavals of today, are we witnessing mere disruption, or the twilight of an old order?

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  • AUSTRALIA

    We must keep toxic election culture out of Australia

    • Sarah Klenbort
    • 12 March 2025

    As Australia heads towards another federal election, the influence of big money in politics looms larger. In the U.S., billionaires and corporate interests have eroded trust in government. Campaigns there cost billions of dollars, while ours, for now, do not. But can we keep it that way?

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  • INTERNATIONAL

    The week America betrayed Ukraine and itself

    • Sergey Maidukov Sr.
    • 06 March 2025

    Thirty years after the US pledged to protect Ukraine’s sovereignty, Zelensky arrived in Washington asking America to honour its promise. What he found was a White House willing to humiliate him because the cost of keeping its word has become too high. 

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  • RELIGION

    Lent was never just about giving things up

    • Andrew Hamilton
    • 05 March 2025

    Lent is often reduced to private acts of restraint. But its history tells a richer story; of communal memory, public reckoning, and the need to confront human suffering. As new crises unfold, from war to political decay, Lent reminds us that forgetting the past is a luxury we cannot afford.

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  • INTERNATIONAL

    Whither Europe?

    • Gillian Bouras
    • 27 February 2025

    Europe faces a moment of strategic recalibration as shifting U.S. priorities put transatlantic ties under strain, raising concerns about Europe’s defence  standing. With war on its borders and internal divisions mounting, the European Union must rethink its role in an increasingly uncertain world.

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