Australia finally has a dedicated minister for cyber security. Here’s why her job is so important

On Tuesday, Australia’s new Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced his government’s first full ministry, with Victorian member Clare O’Neil appointed Minister for Home Affairs and Minister...

What does China want in the Pacific? Diplomatic allies and strategic footholds

By the time Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi’s ten-day tour of the Pacific is over in early June, he will have met with leaders from all...

Emergency departments are clogged and patients are waiting for hours or giving up. What’s going on?

Around 25,000 people visit hospital emergency departments across Australia every day. Many of them are reporting waiting for hours to be seen. Some give up and...

Supreme Court allows states to use unlawfully gerrymandered congressional maps in the 2022 midterm elections

In the upcoming midterm elections, states may use maps that a federal court has found unlawful. You read that right: The U.S. Supreme Court recently barred...

Texas school shooting: How assault-style rifles and ammunition kill and maim

The recent mass shooting that killed 19 children and two teachers at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, has sparked another round of the gun control...

As the UK celebrates Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee, why will so many Americans also be cheering her on?

Modern-day struggle at James Madison’s plantation Montpelier to include the descendants’ voices of the enslaved

Stephen P. Hanna, University of Mary Washington; Amy Potter, Georgia Southern University, and Derek H. Alderman, University of Tennessee On May 17, 2022, after weeks of...

Boris Johnson’s future: a philosophical exercise for wavering Tory MPs

Christopher Bennett, University of Sheffield Former British prime minister David Cameron famously proclaimed in 2010 that the thought of giving prisoners the vote made him “physically...

North Korea: how the COVID outbreak is putting pressure on the regime

Christoph Bluth, University of Bradford For most of the COVID pandemic, North Korea has taken a different approach to the rest of the world. While other...

Guns in the US: why the NRA is so successful at preventing reform

Thomas Gift, UCL In the wake of the recent school shooting in Uvalde, Texas that killed 19 children and two teachers, Democrats in the US –...