Tempering expectations is a start. The next test will be to ensure the most vulnerable are not left behind.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg had a deep faith in America’s capacity for self-correction. Her absence puts it to the test.

The fear is that Trump appoints a judge to decide his electoral fate and then calls on the military to enforce it.

People-to-people connections that stretch across tens of thousands of years don’t stop when lines are drawn on a map.

Funding the deficit is a necessary short-term measure, but “free money” can lead down a dangerous path.

Drawing down troops from Germany one day, inserting the US into the Serbia-Kosovo dispute the next. What’s at play?

Moscow may hope to simply wait out the protesters. But the region has a history of unrest.

Geography, reality and personality collide to undercut the British Prime Minister’s fantasy.

Europe seeks to keep bilateral ties from deteriorating as seen with the US and China, yet a rebalance is underway.

Publishing will be light today, we’re having a system upgrade.

Ben Bland shows even pessimists can be gulled by Joko Widodo’s charms.

After a lifetime employed, what if people spend one last year in the job and donate their salary to charity? I’m game.

Larger forces at play in the US make this an election more akin to the experience in 2012 than that of 2016.

Never attribute to malice what can be explained by incompetence.

Two crucial cases at opposite ends of the earth will determine a government’s right to revoke citizenship of terrorists.

Voting is based on trust between citizens and their government. In an age of social distancing, such faith is tested.

An ongoing pandemic, technical troubles, voter disenfranchisement and ruling party dominance bode poorly for change.

Anne Applebaum’s latest book is a forensic and humane study of a world where methods change, but lust for power doesn’t.

Two years in, has Australia’s legislation to track foreign influence in politics done what it’s meant to do?

Facial recognition tech has supercharged surveillance in sometimes troubling ways – and spurred surprising opponents.

Beijing sees an opportunity in Tehran’s international isolation – but may not realise the tangle it is entering.

“India first” is the message, but economic reality will guide the direction Colombo charts. That points to China, too.

Why might Beijing have chosen to use anti-dumping and anti-subsidy investigations as informal economic sanctions?

Whale hunts and submarine deals gone awry caused prickles, but Abe Shinzo sought special relationship with Canberra.