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 ...

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 ...

Accusations that her grandmother was a communist spy or a fascist collaborator — or both — sent Lea Ypi back to Albania and into her own imagination ...

Whatever the short-term advantages of dumping net zero, the Libs have also created electoral challenges for themselves ...

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 ...

Does Australia need more federal politicians? Special minister of state Don Farrell (and hence prime minister Anthony Albanese) seems to think so. Farrell included the idea in the terms of reference ...

Near the old Hyde Park Barracks in Sydney a stark slab of wall, angled outward from a glass background, houses a table and a leaning potato-digging spade known as a loy. The glass panels behind it are ...

This year’s awarding of the Nobel Prize for economics to Joel Mokyr is widely seen as a victory for history. But it might also help us understand the frustrations and desires — not to mention the ...

A whole lot of people think that AI is going to eliminate many human jobs. Perhaps no one is more confident of this prediction than the engineers who are actually building the AI in question. For ...

Economic reality has a habit of throwing you curveballs — events you didn’t anticipate when making your predictions. Specifically, most economists, myself included, expected tariffs to be the big ...

Every autumn, in September and October, the British parliament is suspended to allow the political parties to hold their annual conferences. Normally only two of these — those of the dominant Labour ...