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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

International Can the world be governed without the US? Michael Jacobs 5 July 2025 A UN conference discovers the absence of the United States can be an opportunity rather than a hindrance ...

Indonesian president Prabowo Subianto’s first state visit to Australia earlier this month had two major results, the first of which would once have been considered security-related and the second ...

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 ...

Under Donald Trump, the United States no longer operates as a serious nation. Being serious about power and interests should be the simple first step of any nation, especially a superpower. A serious ...

Books & arts Australia in the world Graeme Dobell 8 August 2025 An indispensable seventy-year record of foreign policy reaches its thirteenth volume Books & arts How Australia does security and ...