Whether comical or conceptual, political or geographic, Saul Steinberg’s drawings extend the viewer’s horizons ...

Both hymns in praise of meritocracy and criticisms of schooling’s inadequate service have come first and loudest in the ...

Powers is alert to how “their stories unfolded in synch,” wryly noting that it’s “striking how many people played a role in ...

Unlike the typical poète maudit, reciters could be female as well as male, and when delivering their favourite verses in front of an audience could become so unrestrainedly histrionic as to attract ...

Vivek Ramaswamy and Elon Musk want to drastically cut government jobs. Dan Honig makes the case for better not fewer ...

Stretching the year back into late 2023 — an equally hostile environment for governments but with far fewer national elections — Poland’s authoritarian Law and Justice party was shown the door after ...

Essays & reportage People-watching in Port Moresby Gordon Peake 14 September 2024 Our correspondent reacquaints himself with the PNG capital, a place getting a lot more attention these days ...

Musicologist Lawrence Kramer wants his readers to think differently about the sound of music and the music of sound ...

The signs aren’t great for Labor, but the Coalition has its vulnerabilities too — and the election is still months away ...

Australia’s vote on Gaza this week highlights a decades-long shift in the major parties’ attitudes towards Israel ...

In the old Chief Secretary’s Building, a sandstone relic of colonial New South Wales not far from Circular Quay, an episode in the state’s more recent history is being picked apart. In what is now a ...

But this week’s no-confidence motion — the first in more than sixty years — blows the draft 2025 budget out of the water.