Leading Stories
The New Yorker |
01 Aug 2019
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News
The results of the 2018 midterm elections were both predictable and predicted, although that wasn't necessarily how it seemed when Nancy Pelosi started Election Day by telling reporters that Democrats would absolutely win control of the House of Representatives. 'One hundred per cent,' she said, in what felt at the time like an act of breathtaking chutzpah.
The Economist |
01 Aug 2019
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News
BEFORE the mid-term election of November 6th, Elijah Cummings, a congressman from Baltimore, Maryland, swore that if Democrats flipped the House of Representatives, his party would do what Republicans have refused to, and 'conduct independent, fact-based, and credible investigations of the Trump administration.'
KEVIN DRUM |
01 Aug 2019
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News
David French is a conservative lawyer who writes for National Review. Last year he wrote scathingly about both Donald Trump and the alt-right and was rewarded with a barrage of abuse, much of the worst of it aimed at his wife and children. Yesterday he wrote not about the alt-right, but about ordinary
GABRIEL SHERMAN |
01 Aug 2019
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News
But as the meeting began, Donald Trump was more enraged by a crossed red line much closer to home: the F.B.I.'s raid on his longtime lawyer Michael Cohen. 'I just heard that they broke into the office of one of my personal attorneys . . . it's frankly a real disgrace. It's an attack on our country in a true sense ...
Dominic Powell |
22 Jul 2019
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Investing
Shoppers anywhere in the country should able to buy pots, paint and power tools for Christmas online from Bunnings, with the home improvement giant planning to have its digital offering up and running by December.
Clancy Yeates |
22 Jul 2019
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Investing
A rare public intervention from banking royal commissioner Kenneth Hayne could be aimed at ensuring his recommendations are not watered down by financial sector lobbying, former watchdog Allan Fels says.