Attendees at the Conservative Political Action Conference near Washington on February 21,2025.

Inside the Trump-loving gathering that wants to save ‘Austrailia’

It is the world’s largest conservative event,and having succeeded in returning Donald Trump to the presidency,some are setting their sights on Down Under.

  • Michael Koziol

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President Donald Trump is having a busy week.

With God and tech bros on his side,Trump’s ‘golden age’ has just begun

God,the back-again US president and pliant princes from Silicon Valley are the new Trumpian trinity.

  • Nick Bryant
Donald Trump’s official presidential portrait.

Trump’s second inauguration won’t showcase America’s strength,but its weakness

There’s no more meaningful moment in American life than the transfer of power on Inauguration Day. This one will be different,for all the wrong reasons.

  • Bill Wyman

Mission unaccomplished:Why Biden’s legacy’s now at the mercy of Trump

Joe Biden may be remembered as a fine president but his stubborn refusal to pass the torch for so long made it almost historically inevitable that Donald Trump would win again.

  • Nick Bryant
President Jimmy Carter waves to the crowd while walking with wife Rosalynn and their daughter,Amy,to the White House following his inauguration on January 20,1977.

Jimmy Carter:A challenged presidency,a life of moral courage

He lived for 100 years. While Jimmy Carter could not fulfil his goals as president,the values he stood for – honesty,compassion,morality – endure.

  • Bruce Wolpe
Turkey is often on the table at Christmas.

The roast turkey on grandmother’s table:A Christmas tale for the ages

Christmas turkeys have a long and tough history. They deserve all the pardoning they can get.

  • Tony Wright
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Making the Democrats great again might require a dash of Trumpism

How to respond to Trump’s triumph recalls how the Democrats answered Reagan. Bill Clinton’s election-winning shift had Reaganite notes,but what made for good politics often made for terrible policy.

  • Nick Bryant
President-elect Donald Trump celebrates at the Palm Beach Convention Centre in Florida.

Here’s why Trumpism is the new Reaganism,without the virtues

Ronald Reagan sought to preserve democracy,freedom and liberty. Trumpism resembles none of that – and could well dominate American politics for a generation.

  • Bruce Wolpe
American presidents Abraham Lincoln (left),Franklin D. Roosevelt,Ronald Reagan,Donald Trump,John F Kennedy.

Assassination in the USA:Why does America take aim at its leaders?

Access to guns does not fully explain the intensity of American political violence. There must be something more.

  • Peter Hartcher
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Dutton’s climate politics put our children’s future at risk

What appears forgotten in this latest version of Australia’s climate wars is the reason why our planet cannot be allowed to pass 1.5 degrees of warming. At 1.5 degrees we trigger a domino event where a warming planet reinforces further warming that is irreversible.