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Brisbane Times

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Trump’s second inauguration won’t showcase America’s strength, but its weakness

Trump’s second inauguration won’t showcase America’s strength, but its weakness

There’s no more meaningful moment in American life than the transfer of power on Inauguration Day. This one will be different, for all the wrong...

20.01.2025 7

WA Today

Bill Wyman

Trump’s second inauguration won’t showcase America’s strength, but its weakness

Trump’s second inauguration won’t showcase America’s strength, but its weakness

Inauguration Day in Washington, DC, is quite a spectacle. Back in the 2000s, I lived just off the National Mall. It’s a narrow, three-kilometre-long...

20.01.2025 10

Brisbane Times

Bill Wyman

What’s scarier than Trump suing to cow the media? The media caving in

ABC News in America has just settled a defamation suit Donald Trump brought against the network. ABC, which is owned by Disney, agreed to pay $US15...

20.12.2024 4

WA Today

Bill Wyman

What’s scarier than Trump suing to cow the media? The media caving in

ABC News in America has just settled a defamation suit Donald Trump brought against the network. ABC, which is owned by Disney, agreed to pay $US15...

20.12.2024 8

The Sydney Morning Herald

Bill Wyman

What’s scarier than Trump suing to cow the media? The media caving in

ABC News in America has just settled a defamation suit Donald Trump brought against the network. ABC, which is owned by Disney, agreed to pay $US15...

20.12.2024 5

The Age

Bill Wyman

What’s scarier than Trump suing to cow the media? The media caving in

ABC News in America has just settled a defamation suit Donald Trump brought against the network. ABC, which is owned by Disney, agreed to pay $US15...

20.12.2024 3

Brisbane Times

Bill Wyman

Joe Biden can be blamed for many things, but pardoning his son is not one of them

One of the brilliant things Donald Trump and the MAGA world generally have pulled off is normalising a world where outrages on their side are so...

04.12.2024 4

WA Today

Bill Wyman

Joe Biden can be blamed for many things, but pardoning his son is not one of them

One of the brilliant things Donald Trump and the MAGA world generally have pulled off is normalising a world where outrages on their side are so...

04.12.2024 6

The Sydney Morning Herald

Bill Wyman

Joe Biden can be blamed for many things, but pardoning his son is not one of them

One of the brilliant things Donald Trump and the MAGA world generally have pulled off is normalising a world where outrages on their side are so...

04.12.2024 10

The Age

Bill Wyman

Joe Biden can be blamed for many things, but pardoning his son is not one of them

One of the brilliant things Donald Trump and the MAGA world generally have pulled off is normalising a world where outrages on their side are so...

04.12.2024 4

Brisbane Times

Bill Wyman

Red America raised me. Now I fear it will raze America

I grew up in red America. Good people, good people, as we are always dutifully required to say. But with a dark side. They sulked after the Civil...

08.11.2024 4

WA Today

Bill Wyman

Red America raised me. Now I fear it will raze America

I grew up in red America. Good people, good people, as we are always dutifully required to say. But with a dark side. They sulked after the Civil...

08.11.2024 20

The Sydney Morning Herald

Bill Wyman

Red America raised me. Now I fear it will raze America

I grew up in red America. Good people, good people, as we are always dutifully required to say. But with a dark side. They sulked after the Civil...

08.11.2024 8

The Age

Bill Wyman

Red America raised me. Now I fear it will raze America

I grew up in red America. Good people, good people, as we are always dutifully required to say. But with a dark side. They sulked after the Civil...

08.11.2024 3

Brisbane Times

Bill Wyman

As a red-state American, I’m asked one question in Australia more than any other

As an American living in Australia, there is one question I get asked more than any other. Put bluntly, it’s “What the f--- is going on in the...

18.09.2024 5

WA Today

Bill Wyman

As a red-state American, I’m asked one question in Australia more than any other

As an American living in Australia, there is one question I get asked more than any other. Put bluntly, it’s “What the f--- is going on in the...

18.09.2024 2

The Sydney Morning Herald

Bill Wyman

As a red-state American, I’m asked one question in Australia more than any other

As an American living in Australia, there is one question I get asked more than any other. Put bluntly, it’s “What the f--- is going on in the...

18.09.2024 3

The Age

Bill Wyman

As a red-state American, I’m asked one question in Australia more than any other

As an American living in Australia, there is one question I get asked more than any other. Put bluntly, it’s “What the f--- is going on in the...

18.09.2024 3

Brisbane Times

Bill Wyman

Suddenly, Trump, not Biden, is the buffoonish old guy in the race

When the US Supreme Court tossed out 50 years of judicial precedent and overruled Roe v Wade, it was an enormous victory for the forces of the...

22.07.2024 4

WA Today

Bill Wyman

Suddenly, Trump, not Biden, is the buffoonish old guy in the race

When the US Supreme Court tossed out 50 years of judicial precedent and overruled Roe v Wade, it was an enormous victory for the forces of the...

22.07.2024 30

The Sydney Morning Herald

Bill Wyman

Suddenly, Trump, not Biden, is the buffoonish old guy in the race

When the US Supreme Court tossed out 50 years of judicial precedent and overruled Roe v Wade, it was an enormous victory for the forces of the...

22.07.2024 4

The Age

Bill Wyman

Suddenly, Trump, not Biden, is the buffoonish old guy in the race

When the US Supreme Court tossed out 50 years of judicial precedent and overruled Roe v Wade, it was an enormous victory for the forces of the...

22.07.2024 3

Brisbane Times

Bill Wyman

Tenacious D thrive on black humour. So why gag themselves now?

Amid all the talk about the “cancel culture” in America, there is one special form of it – the outrage that arises when a pop or comedy...

17.07.2024 3

The Age

Bill Wyman

Tenacious D thrive on black humour. So why gag themselves now?

Amid all the talk about the “cancel culture” in America, there is one special form of it – the outrage that arises when a pop or comedy...

17.07.2024 2

Brisbane Times

Bill Wyman

Trump fomented political violence. Now, an already fraught election just got worse

Political violence in the United States is more rare than most Australians may imagine, but it tends to stay alive, a dark heart beating just out...

14.07.2024 4

WA Today

Bill Wyman