Two narratives compete about public administration. One is captured by Georgetown University’s Dan Honig in his new book, Mission Driven Bureaucrats. It assumes government can make...
With almost half the world’s population voting in national or Europe-wide elections during 2024, Time magazine declared it “the ultimate election year.” Now it’s almost over...
Up until the moment he fled to Moscow this week, Syrian president Bashar al-Assad stubbornly refused to smooth the path to a new administration. His army,...
As biographer and subject, Ann Powers and Joni Mitchell make perfect sense. Mitchell is widely considered to be the best female singer songwriter of all time,...
Will the next federal election, due by May next year, result in a hung parliament? Everyone seems to think so. The opinion poll ingredients — low...
The Russian analyst could not have been more explicit: “The lessons of the intervention in Syria are clear,” he wrote on 8 December in the business...
In the wake of Joe Biden’s narrow victory in 2020 and the abortive Trump insurrection that followed, one important fact stood out for Marcy Kaptur, a...
Kevin Rudd’s new book, On Xi Jinping, explores the ideology and worldview of Chinese president Xi Jinping, more formally known as general secretary of the Chinese...
“Meritocracy” is one of the great taken-for-granteds of our times. When the Productivity Commission looked at social mobility rates recently it reported in tones of relief...
Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein’s song, “The Folks Who Live on the Hill,” contains the lines: “Our verandah will command a view of meadows green, /...