The ugly American
Sightings of the stereotypical ugly American usually are reported from abroad, but this
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Paul McGeough
Paul McGeough is chief foreign correspondent for the Sydney Morning Herald.
Trump courts trouble with Nazi jibe
At best it's careless to call anyone a Nazi – but to liken all of the US intelligence agencies to Hitler's goons is to recklessly seek trouble.
Obama's legacy could be sunk by Donald Trump
It's an end-of-term ritual. The outgoing president glides from the peak of one success to the next, sketching a preferred draft of his own legacy and at the same time, daring historians to repudiate it.
The moment Trump's press conference degenerated into chaos
There was anticipation about which Trump would appear before the hacks. Alas, those expecting the worst weren't disappointed.
The Moscow dossier is as plausible as Donald Trump's fake news
It seems we can conclude that Trump missed Sunday school on the day they discussed the biblical proverb: as you sow, so shall you reap.
It all ends in tears as Obama takes his bow from centre stage
Professorial to the end, President Barack Obama finished his farewell speech to Americans with a brief lecture in language and tense – "yes we can" became "yes we did."
Russia aimed to influence US election, top spies tell Trump
It was a heart-stopping moment at the intersection of American politics and intelligence – three spy chiefs confronting a Republican President-elect who for months has been mocking them, to tell him that yes, despite all his bluster, Russia had been rooting for him to defeat his Democratic challenger.
Goodbye Jefferson, hello Saddam: Turkey's collapse has been years in the making
The chaos in Turkey is mostly of President Erdogan's making.
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
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.
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