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Please Explain podcast
Please Explain podcast: Biden plans transition while Trump plays golf
In this episode, senior culture writer Nathanael Cooper and North America correspondent Matthew Knott discuss the results of the US election and the likelihood of more legal challenges from the Trump campaign.
- by Nathanael Cooper
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Opinion
Global economy
Echoes of Obama: Biden's economy faces a long road to recovery
Has the pandemic fundamentally broken anything about the US economy? The answer will dictate just how fast it can get back on track.
- by Neil Irwin
Opinion
US votes 2020
Admit it, we underestimated Joe Biden
In a single motion, Biden refuted slurs about his mental acuity while recasting the terms of politics from Trumpian combat to compassion.
- by Chris Zappone
Opinion
Wall Street
Wall St finds a silver lining from a messy election
The fluctuations in financial markets in the lead up to the US election demonstrates investors' search for optimism in any development, however unexpected.
- by Stephen Bartholomeusz
Analysis
US votes 2020
Trump's lost war: From a gold escalator to Four Seasons Total Landscaping
Literally anywhere else would have conveyed more legitimacy than the Four Seasons car park, but legitimacy did not seem a high priority for one of the last battles of the Trump team.
- by Dan Zak and Karen Heller
Opinion
Global economy
China's still the economic enemy with Biden in the White House
A sudden thaw in the economic Cold War seems unlikely even if there is a new face in the White House.
- by Russell Lynch
Opinion
US election
Time to reject Trump's legacy and to back free trade and immigration
Australia will be faced with a serious long-term challenge for our economic well-being if relations aren't improved.
- by Chris Berg
Opinion
US votes 2020
Anxiety lifts as Trump era fades
World leaders, used to living with the threat of a destructive Trump, are sighing with relief.
- by Peter Hartcher
Letters
Letters
Hail a win for democracy and a relief for the world
I cried when I heard the news yesterday morning that Joe Biden is President-elect.
Analysis
Electricity
Kean may have found a path through the energy gridlock
Energy policy has proved to be a miserable field of play for Australian politicians, with his new energy road map Matt Kean may have found a path through.
- by Nick O'Malley
Opinion
Interest rates
Reserve Bank struggles to stay relevant in a post-inflation world
The Reserve Bank is desperately trying to look busy and relevant because it’s lost its main reason for existence.
- by Ross Gittins
Australia
In the Herald: November 9, 1957
Sydney’s worst wind storm for several years swept through the Cronulla area yesterday.
- by Brian Yatman
Opinion
The lowdown
Entrepreneurial spirit built of necessity for people with disability
About 13.1 per cent of people with disability are self-employed or entrepreneurs compared with only 9.2 per cent of non-disabled Australians.
- by Simon Darcy, Jock Collins and Megan Stronach
Opinion
US votes 2020
Don't expect Joe Biden to use Twitter
Joe Biden has pledged that he will not be tweeting at all hours, Indeed, he probably will not tweet much at all.
- by Nick Allen
Opinion
Coronavirus pandemic
A big hand for our gentle emergence back to life
So much has been made remarkable this year by virtue of noticing it: a smile in the eyes, the little wave of an untouchable hand, new-found feathered friends.
- by Harb Gill
Opinion
Indigenous
Real change requires more than nice words and minor policy tinkering
If we don’t implement the difficult but necessary structural reforms, we cannot be surprised at repeated failures to close the gap.
- by Shireen Morris
Editorial
US election
Much-needed dose of normalcy for Washington
Democracy has done its work. It may have kept Americans, and many around the world, in nail-biting suspense for days, but it got the job done.
- The Herald's View
Opinion
US election
US media's call to cut Trump highlights challenge for modern media
When Trump began to spout his unfounded theories about electoral fraud late last week, American media outlets cut the feed – the fastest broadcaster to act, MSNBC, did so after Trump had been speaking for only 35 seconds.
- by Tim Dwyer
Analysis
US votes 2020
Empathy, civility and healing: Biden restores the soul of oratory in America
US President-elect Joe Biden uses a word exiled in America for the past four years: "healing".
- by Tony Wright
Opinion
US votes 2020
Trump will tarnish own achievement if he refuses to accept defeat
You’d think that Trump and his allies would take solace in knowing that he saved the nation from a radical progressive agenda, which a Democratic sweep would have delivered.
- by Tom Switzer
Opinion
US votes 2020
Trump's greatest trick? Monopolising our attention
By commanding not just our eyeballs but so many of our thoughts and conversations, Trump shrunk our sense of the world.
- by Sean Kelly
Opinion
US votes 2020
When we heard Biden had won, we dropped everything and ran
Today feels like a revival of the hope for the future of the country. Joe Biden and Kamala Harris’ victory gives us some faith that those injustices will start to be addressed at a federal level and that this country, in which I've chosen to raise my sons, is one of possibility.
- by Sharanya Mitchell
Tight Five
Bledisloe Cup
How two players won the Test for the Wallabies
The biggest moments in the victory over the All Blacks featured the same two players: Reece Hodge and Matt Philip.
- by Paul Cully
Opinion
Education
What can data tell us about single-sex education for girls?
Performance data may well show girls do better academically in single-sex school settings. What is harder to determine is why.
- by Peter Adams
Opinion
US votes 2020
The President's disgraceful behaviour is deeply troubling
If the leader of the free world continues to claim, with essentially no supportive evidence, that the election was stolen through fraud, we will have far more serious problems than merely reconciling disappointed partisans to the reality of defeat.
- by John Bolton
US votes 2020
How tragedy shaped Joe Biden for this moment
"I know how mean, cruel, and unfair life can be sometimes, " Joe Biden said. "But I found the best way through pain, and loss and grief is to find purpose.”
- by Farrah Tomazin
Analysis
US votes 2020
Americans change the channel on Donald Trump's reality TV presidency
Joe Biden - aged 77 and a shaky communicator - was easy to underestimate. But he ran a highly disciplined campaign, never deviating from his core message: it's time to restore the "soul of the nation" and get COVID-19 under control.
- by Matthew Knott
Opinion
The Fitz Files
Dump Trumpian politics and bring out the generosity of all Australians
The US President may be a political genius at activating the 'bleak angels' of the world. But Australia needs to dump him and his politics.
- by Peter FitzSimons
Analysis
Video games
What to expect at the dawn of a new generation for game consoles
As Microsoft and Sony prepare to release new systems in a matter of days, what's the sales pitch to those wondering if they should upgrade?
- by Tim Biggs
Opinion
Family Court
Government must act to improve family law system
People find themselves before these courts at some of the lowest points in their lives, often in urgent need of help. They must be able to receive.
- by The Herald's View
letters
Letters
Working from home or living at work?
More Australian employees show preference over their global counterparts to work from home.
Opinion
US votes 2020
Why did so many people vote for Trump? Like it or not, he is a 'safe space' for millions
It is impossible to conceive of Trump giving a concession speech, and so it will be a matter of waiting to see when he blinks, and what that might look like.
- by Jacqueline Maley
Opinion
Hamilton
At a time of global reckoning around race, Hamilton could be a salve
After a casting process spanning more than a year, the producers of Hamilton have finally settled on their cast and will announce it on Monday morning.
- by Nathanael Cooper
Opinion
Global warming
Australia the outlier in Biden's brave new zero-emissions world
Australia will be left behind as its allies take steps towards a greener, emissions-free future, led by the newly elected President.
- by Bob Carr
Opinion
Money Makeover
How I got a 0.6 percentage point mortgage rate cut ... and you can too
Don’t believe the banks when they say they cannot cut variable interest rates for existing customers. They can but are just making a decision not to do so.
- by Jessica Irvine
Opinion
Budgeting
The two real problems with the new ‘pay-on-demand’ revolution
"Pay-on-demand" services lubricate salary slippage and can create massive future budgeting problems.
- by Nicole Pedersen-McKinnon
Opinion
Antiques
Brown is the new black in antique furniture
A recent Sydney auction is testimony to the strengthening of brown furniture antique prices, with many items selling at three times their reserve prices.
- by Stephen Crafti
Opinion
Ask an expert
Clarifying 'bring-forward' rules in superannuation
Under recent changes to the rules, a super fund can continue to accept contributions until a member turns 67 without them having to meet the work test.
- by George Cochrane
Opinion
Real Footy Podcast
Trade podcast: Could Jaidyn Stephenson be traded?
As potential deals involving Adam Treloar and Josh Dunkley dominate discussion, Jake Niall and Peter Ryan dissect the latest AFL trade developments.
Opinion
Political expenses
Cartier watches v Kit Kats. How about a better bonus for our posties?
The best PR team for Australia Post is walking our streets. Cherish your postie.
- by Helen Pitt
Analysis
US votes 2020
Biden's call for unity may soon confront an ugly American reality
Joe Biden hit all the right notes on Saturday and he may be sincere, but he has been around in DC long enough to know that to many they will sound hollow.
- by Nick O'Malley
Analysis
Drugs in sport
Australia has never lost an Olympic medal to drugs. That might be about to change
How, when testing technology continues to advance, does an athlete prove their innocence eight years after the fact?
- by Samantha Lane
Opinion
Trading and drafting
Free agency rules, not clubs, have failed Cameron
If any player is entitled to exercise his free agency rights it's Jeremy Cameron but the star forward's experience shows a review of the rules is needed.
- by Peter Ryan
Opinion
US votes 2020
Has America lost its soul?
If Biden does scrape through to victory, he will have a hard time restoring ethical concerns in a country with so many voters who have become indifferent to the wellbeing of those outside their immediate communities.
- by Peter Singer
Letters
Letters
Hockey tees off US watchers
The performance by Joe Hockey in Washington brings home the question of why ex-Australian politicians, including failed ones, are given the plum diplomatic jobs.
Opinion
US votes 2020
America's faultlines are ours, too. We are polarised nations
The faultlines Trump reinforced this week have been replicated across Australia, Canada and New Zealand, but in a more muted form.
- by George Megalogenis
Opinion
Renewables
Like water for electricity, we can go with the flow for cleaner energy
The solutions for a 100 per cent renewable economy are under our noses.
- by Elizabeth Farrelly
Opinion
MyCareer
We are failing the young out of blinkered self-interest
We have failed to appreciate that real protection comes not from keeping things the same but from nature and most critically nurture.
- by Jim Bright
Opinion
Satire
A life and death struggle: Talk about buzz kill
“Oh, great," thought the writer. “How am I supposed to enter my creative flow-state with a fly in the room?”
- by Danny Katz