Team Trump's cabinet looks like a different kind of swamp
There's a strong end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it whiff to Donald Trump's White House appointments
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Paul McGeough
Paul McGeough is chief foreign correspondent for the Sydney Morning Herald.
Americans can only wonder what Trump is up to in his latest pro-Russia cabinet pick
It's easier to be hairy-chested in a tweet than to give a considered explanation of what you are about – and so, as Donald Trump recruits another Putinette to his leadership team, Americans can only wonder at what the self-declared "smart person" is up to in his pro-Russian shtick.
Aleppo residents await dark end game
As Russian-backed Syrian regime forces grind the last rebel fighters into defeat, the imminent fall of the besieged city of Aleppo heralds a collision.
What the internet did for journalism, Donald Trump is doing for politics
Physically, it was in well-heeled Chevy Chase, where Connecticut and Nebraska Avenues cross, that the cops captured a gunman after he opened fire in the Comet Ping Pong pizzeria on Sunday.
Trump's Taiwan unpredictability will be a cue for other nations
Barack Obama told Americans that the weight of the presidency would restrain Donald Trump. Now we know that everything is up for grabs.
Trump settles into swamp life
US President-election Donald Trump promised to "drain the swamp" in Washington. But the old lines of Washington power, financial and political, are all too clear in his latest appointments
Is Donald Trump draining the swamp or fishing in it for key appointments?
Can you have a rip in a swamp? How else to explain how Drainer-in-Chief Donald Trump seems to be getting dragged under?
Electoral College pitfalls on full display after US vote
At first, there were no serious political takers for the academics' questioning of the 2016 outcome. In the end, Trump weighed in.
Donald Trump's family settle in for the good times
We can only wonder where Donald Trump sits on a great American continuum – at one end, sweet innocence and Willy Wonka; at the other, Don Corleone.
Donald Trump still doesn't get it on the media
There's the presidency and then there are the president-elect's priorities. And in the last few days they seem to revolve mainly around settling scores with media heavies.
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