Cory Alpert
Cory Alpert is a PhD researcher at the University of Melbourne looking at the impact of AI on democracy. He previously served the Biden-Harris Administration for three years.
- Opinion
- Trump's America
Trump feels the pain as his war becomes a liability in the heartlands
Voters are growing increasingly anxious - they believe Trump’s war is going to last a long time, and Republicans are likely to pay the price.
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- Opinion
- Trump's America
We Americans don’t know if we’re the good guys any more
Trump’s puzzling decisions have left us to speculate on his reasons for bombing Iran. Was it at the behest of Netanyahu? A distraction from the Epstein files? A battle for Western civilisation? Confusion could be the point.
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- Opinion
- Trump's White House
Trump’s TACO backdowns are no accident. It’s how he expands his power
With all Donald Trump’s backtracking he must be losing the political battle, right? Wrong: this is exactly how he wants to operate.
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- Opinion
- Trump's America
Trump created a goon squad in his image. It’s replacing law with a state of panic
Trump has tied his political identity to a browbeaten fear of immigrants. With ICE agents, he has a force willing to carry out his violent demands.
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- Opinion
- Trump diplomacy
Trump has just sacked 30 ambassadors. The consequences for Australia are profound
In the past year, we have seen a wholesale change in how American power works, and these ambassadorial changes are an emblem of the president’s foreign policy.
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- Opinion
- Social media
A dorky PM and a nation of rule abiders called big tech’s bluff. It’s changing the world
Australia may be shy of its influence, but it has become a global headline. From Germany to Singapore, people are looking to Australia as a world leader.
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- Opinion
- Epstein fallout
The desperate calculation behind Trump’s backdown over the Epstein files
Something interesting is happening with Donald Trump and his reputation for being immune to scandal. There’s an anger here that won’t go away.
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- Opinion
- US government shutdown
One in eight Americans go hungry as shutdown ravages world’s wealthiest country
The crisis in the United States right now isn’t that government is broken; it’s that so many people have simply stopped expecting it to work.
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- Opinion
- Trump diplomacy
The world looks to Trump for peace, we get volatility and the master of grift
The US president uses unpredictability as leverage as we’ve seen from Ukraine to Gaza but he mistakes confusion for control, volatility for strength.
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- Opinion
- Trump's America
With Charlie Kirk’s death, the MAGA movement gains its first patron saint
While it’s easy to find condemnation for senseless violence, and feel sympathy towards Kirk’s wife and young children, it’s difficult to find empathy.
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