This Month
Ken Griffin urges Harvard University to embrace ‘Western values’
The hedge fund founder who has given his alma mater more than $US500 million has slammed the pro-Palestinian protests sweeping colleges as “almost like performative art”.
- Harriet Agnew
April
A judge may decide if Pauline Hanson is a white supremacist
The far-right senator’s career of racial commentary is on trial in the Federal Court.
- Aaron Patrick
January
- Opinion
- Diversity
Why business is dumping virtue signalling for metrics
American companies are changing their approach to diversity and inclusion to improve their return on investment.
- Rana Foroohar
How Tina Fey became ‘the most powerful woman in comedy’
The comedian has never kowtowed to cancel culture, but she has slightly reworked the musical version of her 2004 hit “Mean Girls” to acknowledge changing mores.
- Stephen Armstrong
- Analysis
- Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Who’s a ‘coloniser’? How an old word became a new weapon
In bitter debates from Israel to Africa to America, invoking a brutal history has become a powerful accusation.
- Roger Cohen
November 2023
- Opinion
- Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Diaspora politics Jews perfected is being turned against Israel
More than any other conflict, the public relations battle of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is fought through international diasporas.
- Tanveer Ahmed
October 2023
- Opinion
- Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Israel has no choice but to destroy Hamas
The Western world shirks difficult decisions out of misguided equivocating. Israel can have no such qualms.
- Ramesh Thakur
- Analysis
- Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Left’s take on Hamas stuns US Jews – and threatens Democrat split
Anti-Israel sentiment on university campuses and in street protests has sparked anger among a nation of people often aligned with the political left in the US.
- Joshua Chaffin
September 2023
Proud Boys leader gets record 22-year sentence for Capitol riot
His sentencing comes as the Justice Department prepares to put Donald Trump on trial at the same courthouse in Washington.
- Michael Kunzelman, Lindsay Whitehurst and Alanna Durkin Richer
February 2023
- Opinion
- Voice to parliament
The Voice is national group therapy - not the help that’s needed
The new body may be a way for us all to cope with endemic problems. But it is not going to offer anything new or practical.
- Tanveer Ahmed
January 2023
Video shows Memphis police officers kicking, beating Tyre Nichols
Tyre Nichols, a Black motorist stopped by Memphis police is seen pummeled into submission as five police officers deliver kicks, punches and baton blows in graphic video.
- Alyssa Pointer and Brendan O'Brien
July 2022
When a woman says ‘I don’t want a partnership’ start asking questions
King & Wood Mallesons boss Renae Lattey still believes in gender targets, even though her firm missed one for 2022.
- Michael Pelly
January 2022
No more working for jerks!
For almost two years, couches have been cubicles. Colleagues are instant message avatars. And people are reconsidering how much they should have to put up with from a boss.
- Emma Goldberg
When ignorance isn’t bliss: the real moral reckoning in Maxwell case
When it comes to abuse and what you should have known, ignorance is no excuse.
- Sanford Goldberg and Chicago Tribune
December 2021
Crime wave knows no boundaries in Los Angeles
Armed security patrols are being stepped up as terrified residents fear for their safety in Beverly Hills after the shooting death of a music mogul’s wife.
- Pete Samson
November 2021
Biden is accused of slandering Rittenhouse
The US President is under fire for linking Mr Rittenhouse to ‘white supremacist and militia groups’ last year in a campaign video that attacked Donald Trump.
- Rozina Sabur
Windows smashed in Rittenhouse protest in Portland
Protests have been held in several other US cities nationwide over the verdict, including New York, Los Angeles and Chicago.
- Staff reporters
- Opinion
- Federal politics
With Morrison in an unworkable position, Labor sees a chance
With all his backflips, the PM has destroyed his own credibility and his government’s capacity to find any credible policy.
- Laura Tingle
McDonald’s CEO apologises for ‘racist’ texts about children’s deaths
‘I have, through my background, a very narrow world view,’ Chris Kempczinski said in a video to staff. ‘My comments to Mayor Lightfoot revealed that ignorance.’
- Leslie Patton
August 2021
Where is Bill Hwang, the man who lost $US20b in two days
About 24 kilometres from midtown Manhattan, the head of Archegos is groping for answers in the wake of one of the biggest debacles in Wall Street history.
