Washington’s ambitions in the region aren’t going unopposed. Among the groups challenging the dominant narrative of the Micronesian islands as “the tip of the spear” for the US military in the western ...

Other Voices Donald Trump’s lose–lose tariffs Noah Smith 16 April 2025 History shows tariffs are bad for rich economies — and Donald Trump’s decisions so far are actually reducing manufacturing ...

National affairs The Senate’s status seekers Karen Middleton 30 May 2025 Having lost Jacinta Nampijinpa Price to the Liberals, the National Party has tried to entice at least one senator from the ...

Nic Maclellan, a correspondent for Islands Business magazine and other regional media, is Inside Story ’s Pacific affairs correspondent.

Chris Bonnor is an education writer, speaker, advocate and former NSW principal. He has served as President of the NSW Secondary Principals’ Council and is author of The Stupid Country and What Makes ...

Books & arts Alone like a finger Nick Haslam 13 June 2025 It was writing that “separated me from everything,” says German writer Judith Hermann in a captivating collection of biographical essays ...

Essays & reportage Beyond words Iain Topliss 18 December 2024 Whether comical or conceptual, political or geographic, Saul Steinberg’s drawings extend the viewer’s horizons ...

Early in 1973 the Karmel committee, created by the new and aggressively reformist Whitlam government, was hard at work devising a way for all schools, including Catholic parish schools and a handful ...

In probing the shortcomings of George Orwell’s biographers has Anna Funder fallen into traps of her own?

The reaction to Gladys Berejiklian’s sudden resignation as NSW premier is one of many recent indications that the assumptions of the male-dominated political culture of the twentieth century remain ...

This week has seen tentative signs that Australia’s response to Covid-19 might be “bending the curve” — in other words, slowing the rate of increase in the cumulative number of cases. The figures have ...

Ultra-low interest rates have fundamentally changed the arithmetic of renewable energy ...