Australia is a better society but US still dazzles
The US is better than its worst traits suggest.
Josephine Tovey is a New York-based reporter for The Sydney Morning Herald.
The US is better than its worst traits suggest.
Trump rallies are both as epochal and as absurd as they look.
Trump's willingness to throw transgender troops under the bus reveals his total cynicism.
America's attitude to healthcare is one of the most confounding cultural differences many outsiders confront.
Talk of avocado on toast and housing affordability goes viral again this week.
There is conspicuous silence from the White House on the threat from anti-Muslim, white supremacist and other extremist ideologies.
You know an issue has mainstream support when even big business is willing to back it.
There's a new rule emerging for observers of American politics trying to understand a confusing new outburst or claim from President Donald Trump - somebody check what's happened on Fox News in the last 24 hours.
Last week federal prosecutors announced a woman had been indicted for making death threats against a parent whose child was murdered in the 2012 mass shooting at Sandy Hook elementary school. Her motivation, the US Department of Justice said, was her belief that the massacre never happened, that it was a hoax.
Though Donald Trump has barely left the gilded confines of Trump Tower in Manhattan since he won the US election on November 8, already, the city around him is marshalling its defences.
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