After America

The United States keeps telling us what an unreliable ally it is. Are European governments now getting the message?

The Australian government has been excruciatingly silent when it comes to standing up for the International Criminal Court and foundations of international law it so loves to talk about.

While miles apart in their responses to the Trump administration, Canada and Australia are in lock-step on expanding fossil fuel production.

Last week’s Trump-Xi meeting delivered few tangible outcomes, but is a bigger shift in US-China relations under way?

A new suite of legislation aims to ensure that Australia doesn’t fund, arm or invest in illegal settlements, war crimes or genocide – but the federal government has blocked an inquiry into the bills.

The United States controls or has access to more than 100 defence facilities on Australian soil, according to new research.

Nine nuclear weapons states are holding the rest of the world “hostage to annihilation”, but the Australian government is yet to act on a global ban.

The Australia-United States relationship is strong in spite of the flawed defence partnership.

What might the midterms mean for an historically unpopular president?

If the United States government isn’t caring for its own military personnel, how could policymakers expect the US to come to Australia’s aid?

The Australian government constantly talks up the international rules-based order – but its willingness to uphold the principles that underpin it is inconsistent at best.

Fragile men in government and tech are supercharging misogyny in the United States and beyond.

Faced with an entirely new type of president, the Australian government insists on playing an old game by the old rules.

No one knows what’ll happen at the November midterms or the next presidential election. Is the Australian government prepared for the worst-case scenario?

Former Washington Post journalist Anna Fifield reflects on her time at the paper, the state of American media, and New Zealand’s role in the world.

Introducing The Australia Institute's new podcast series, What's the Point? with Richard Denniss.

After a wild couple of weeks in the election, we discuss the emergence of Kamala Harris as the presumptive Democratic nominee and the place of reproductive rights in the campaign.

On this special crossover episode of After America and Follow the Money, we discuss Biden’s decision to drop out of the campaign and why Democrats have rallied around Kamala Harris as the presumptive nominee.

Former Australian foreign minister Bob Carr joins us to discuss the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, the new Republican Vice-Presidential nominee, and the future of America’s place in the world.

What does the Supreme Court’s monumental ruling on presidential immunity mean for the future of American democracy?

Can Biden recover from a disastrous debate performance?

In After America, a new Australia Institute podcast, Dr Emma Shortis asks what this means for the rest of us, and how Australia can help shape our rapidly changing world for the better.

The Democrats leave their convention on a high note while Trump struggles to get an insult to stick.

The Democratic National Convention has landed in Chicago, Illinois. Will Kamala Harris be able to build on her campaign’s momentum or will the Republican ticket be able to stem the tide?

Former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull and Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz join us to discuss the presidential election, the AUKUS deal and the right-wing media machine.

We examine what Kamala Harris’ foreign policy might look like, Biden’s international legacy and the implications of a second Trump term for global security.

Even with his luxury jet grounded, Trump and his administration have flown the United States into a strategic black hole.

On the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, in a heat wave, delayed by storms, Donald Trump gave a very Donald Trump speech.

Trump’s “peace” “deal” with Iran is already falling apart.

With the men’s football world cup underway and after a UFC event on the White House lawn, the relationship between sport and politics seems especially close in the United States right now.

Donald Trump pledged to reach a better deal with Iran than the Obama administration negotiated in 2015. He hasn’t – and probably won’t.

On this special episode, we’re joined by two commissioners from the new community-led, independent inquiry into the AUKUS security deal.

Even as the Trump administration facilitates the demise of the international order the United States helped create, the Australian government’s embrace of Aukus ties the two countries ever closer.

Despite the global upheaval caused by the Trump administration, the Australian government is trying to plough on with AUKUS as if Biden was still in charge.

Stuck in a quagmire of its own making in Iran, the Trump administration has little to show for its diplomatic efforts in Beijing.

A majority of Australians now think Donald Trump is a bigger threat to world peace than either Vladimir Putin or Xi Jinping.

160 years after the American Civil War, the Confederacy is ascendent.

Violence is a feature of American democracy.

After tearing up the Iran nuclear deal negotiated under President Obama, Trump is trying to bomb his way to a better outcome and it’s failing spectacularly.

The Trump administration’s failure to reach an agreement with Iran to end the war shouldn’t come as a surprise.

The United States and Israel’s war on Iran has been disastrous.

Far from winding down, tit-for-tat threats on civilian energy infrastructure suggest the US-Israel war may enter a new spiral of violence.

The Trump administration’s war on Iran is the most “incompetent, incoherent” war the United States has fought in a century, according to one US Senator.

The Australian government has been trying to placate Trump in order to secure the AUKUS submarine deal – and now we are seeing the results.

In the MAGAverse, it’s white men who are born to rule – at home and abroad.

The ‘president of peace’ has started another war with Iran, with no apparent regard for the consequences.

The ‘president of peace’ is at it again: threatening Iran again and boasting that his ‘board of peace’ will look over the United Nations.

By removing guardrails around nuclear weapons, the Trump administration is making the world a far more dangerous place.

As American democracy teeters, the Australian government is trying to pretend everything is just fine.

With each passing day, the Make America Great Again movement is becoming more battle-hardened and less likely to disappear once Trump leaves office (whenever that may be).