Congress’ power has been diminishing for years, leaving Trump to act with impunity Samuel Garrett, University of Sydney A year into US President Donald Trump’s second term,...
More floods are coming. Here’s what actually works to help people prepare Brian Robert Cook, The University of Melbourne; Nicholas Harrigan, Macquarie University, and Peter Kamstra, The...
Global power struggles over the ocean’s finite resources call for creative diplomacy Jonas Gamso, Arizona State University and Hossain Ahmed Taufiq, Arizona State University Oceans shape everyday...
Four ways to understand what’s going on with the US, Denmark and Greenland Shutterstock/Michal Balada Ian Manners, Lund University European countries, and Denmark in particular, are scrambling...
What lies ahead for Latin America after the Venezuela raid? Nicolas Forsans, University of Essex The Trump administration has justified the recent capture of Venezuelan leader Nicolás...
The antisemitism debate is already a political minefield. The royal commission must rise above it Matteo Vergani, Deakin University What we currently know about antisemitism in Australia...
Viral outbreaks are always on the horizon – here are the viruses an infectious disease expert is watching in 2026 Viruses know no borders. mammuth/iStock via Getty...
Today Venezuela, tomorrow Iran: can the Islamic Republic survive a second Trump presidency? Better days: Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, left, met the supreme leader of Iran, Ali...
Juliette McIntyre, Adelaide University and Tamsin Phillipa Paige, Deakin University The United Nations turned 80 in October last year; a venerable age for the most significant...
Donald Rothwell, Australian National University The January 3 US military operation in Venezuela seizing President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Adela Flores de Maduro, was...
Andrew Gawthorpe, Leiden University Venezuela’s president, Nicolás Maduro, has been apprehended and flown to the US where the US attorney-general has announced he will face charges...
Has the Fed fixed the economy yet? And other burning economic questions for 2026 D. Brian Blank, Mississippi State University and Brandy Hadley, Appalachian State University The...
Deepfakes leveled up in 2025 – here’s what’s coming next AI image and video generators now produce fully lifelike content. AI-generated image by Siwei Lyu using Google...
EU agrees €90 billion loan to Ukraine, but squabbles over frozen Russian assets expose the bloc’s deep divisions Richard Whitman, University of Kent; Royal United Services Institute...
ByteDance’s agreement to sell TikTok puts app’s algorithm in the spotlight – a social media expert explains how the ‘For You’ page works and what’s to come...
