The Trump Twitter ban debate is a dangerous distraction

Stop. Just stop. The pernicious equivocations, obfuscations, excuses and reservations must stop. Now. The appeasement of a frothing maniac who...

Andrew Mitrovica

100 12.01.2021

Pardons and Iraq: A familiar story

The posh enablers of America’s empire have always required that the grunts do the maiming and murdering in pursuit of their disastrous geopolitical...

Andrew Mitrovica

10 07.01.2021

America is coming undone

America has plunged off the precipice. The Bastille-like storming of the US capital by a cretinous mob of Donald Trump fanatics was the predictable...

Andrew Mitrovica

300 07.01.2021

Pardons and Iraq: A familiar story

The posh enablers of America’s empire have always required that the grunts do the maiming and murdering in pursuit of their disastrous geopolitical...

Andrew Mitrovica

90 06.01.2021

Australia is guilty of state-sponsored terrorism

Australia’s prime minister may not want to admit his country’s guilt. Australia’s defence force chief may not want to admit his country’s...

Andrew Mitrovica

30 24.11.2020

Americans need to remain vigilant

During these surreal times, it is fitting that a comedian told Americans the truth about Donald Trump. Dressed in funereal black, The Late Show host,...

Andrew Mitrovica

40 15.11.2020

We now know what America is

It is plain and beyond dispute. All the myths about what America is, or perhaps more accurately, what America has long pretended to be, have been...

Andrew Mitrovica

650 04.11.2020

Even if Trump loses the election, there will be no legal ‘reckoning’ for his alleged crimes.

For progressives, it is the stuff that dreams are made of: Donald Trump could soon trade his orange tan for a prison-issued orange jumpsuit. But...

Andrew Mitrovica

70 25.10.2020

I only wish for his convincing defeat on November 3 – nothing more, or less.

It will be the defining image of this rancid presidency. There Donald Trump stood in a near-barren room in the White House doing what he loves to do...

Andrew Mitrovica

550 04.10.2020

The chaos that ricocheted across television screens last night was testament to the sad spectacle that is America today.

If you did not watch what could only charitably be described as a “debate” between the two US presidential candidates last night, I can assure you...

Andrew Mitrovica

650 30.09.2020

This is a time for choosing

Mercifully, the finish line is approaching. It has taken almost four years to get here. It has taken stamina and resilience. It has taken will and...

Andrew Mitrovica

100 19.09.2020

What the 'cancel culture' zealots get wrong about Twitter

Journalists can be such insufferable bores and hypocrites. This is particularly true of columnists who, like me, perpetually pass judgement on...

Andrew Mitrovica

90 01.08.2020

How is it possible that Trump can still win?

Making predictions can be a columnist's curse. I have tried to avoid the tricky practice since, in all likelihood, my crystal ball is as unreliable as...