Since 2006, the Economist Intelligence Unit has measured the quality of democracy in 167 countries and territories across the world. Its last index, for 2024, was published in February. Over the past ...

Over the past few years, though, I have watched versions of reckoning with China unfold across very different milieus, each shaped by a unique vantage point. For Kaiser’s generation of American ...

Here, Haydon’s film is a point of flexion where a narrative of the passing race is confronted by one of resistance and revitalisation. Trukanini’s reburial campaign was a significant event for a new ...

Christian Swegal’s Sovereign (Amazon Prime) moves with quiet inevitability towards a terrible conclusion. Tense, difficult and deeply confronting, it is an emotionally precise film. This is tragedy ...

National affairs The everyday threat of sovereign citizen pseudolaw Harry Hobbs & Stephen Young 29 August 2025 Behind the violence of its most extreme adherents is a web of groups active at the ...

Books & arts Engineering China’s future Michael Gill 17 October 2025 Sometimes the only things scarier than China’s problems are Beijing’s solutions, says seasoned observer Dan Wang ...

Other Voices Why do we still have so many radiologists? Noah Smith 17 October 2025 AI model-makers predicted a sharp dropoff in jobs. So far, reality is refusing to oblige ...

In Ontario, Canada’s most populous province, 93 per cent of children attend public schools. In Alberta, the province that topped Canada for reading and science in the latest round of OECD tests, ...

Nations are built with pens and brushes not just hammers and nails. They exhibit their character in what they say about themselves as much as what is said about them. — Bruce Pascoe, Convincing Ground ...

It is salutary to turn on the television on the morning after the biggest landslide to the Labor Party since 1943 and the Liberal Party’s worst-ever election defeat. We must have had Sky on by the ...

Across the southeast of the continent now known as Australia, the recent bushfire season provoked a surge in interest in Aboriginal peoples’ fire practices and knowledge. These practices are often ...