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The desperate calculation behind Trump’s backdown over the Epstein files

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.

previous day 8

WA Today

Cory Alpert

The desperate calculation behind Trump’s backdown over the Epstein files

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.

previous day 9

The Sydney Morning Herald

Cory Alpert

The desperate calculation behind Trump’s backdown over the Epstein files

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.

previous day 10

The Age

Cory Alpert

The desperate calculation behind Trump’s backdown over the Epstein files

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.

previous day 7

Brisbane Times

Cory Alpert

One in eight Americans go hungry as shutdown ravages world’s wealthiest country

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.

30.10.2025 3

WA Today

Cory Alpert

One in eight Americans go hungry as shutdown ravages world’s wealthiest country

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.

30.10.2025 5

The Sydney Morning Herald

Cory Alpert

One in eight Americans go hungry as shutdown ravages world’s wealthiest country

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.

30.10.2025 20

The Age

Cory Alpert

One in eight Americans go hungry as shutdown ravages world’s wealthiest country

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.

30.10.2025 2

Brisbane Times

Cory Alpert

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.

12.10.2025 9

WA Today

Cory Alpert

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.

12.10.2025 30

The Sydney Morning Herald

Cory Alpert

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.

12.10.2025 10

The Age

Cory Alpert

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.

12.10.2025 10

Brisbane Times

Cory Alpert

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.

14.09.2025 10

WA Today

Cory Alpert

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.

14.09.2025 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Cory Alpert

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.

14.09.2025 10

The Age

Cory Alpert

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.

14.09.2025 10

Brisbane Times

Cory Alpert

After a holiday romance with dictatorship, Trump is returning to reality

This week, Congress returns to Washington. Budget fights, judicial confirmations, and fresh scrutiny of Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill awaits the...

31.08.2025 20

WA Today

Cory Alpert

After a holiday romance with dictatorship, Trump is returning to reality

This week, Congress returns to Washington. Budget fights, judicial confirmations, and fresh scrutiny of Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill awaits the...

31.08.2025 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Cory Alpert

After a holiday romance with dictatorship, Trump is returning to reality

This week, Congress returns to Washington. Budget fights, judicial confirmations, and fresh scrutiny of Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill awaits the...

31.08.2025 10

The Age

Cory Alpert

After a holiday romance with dictatorship, Trump is returning to reality

This week, Congress returns to Washington. Budget fights, judicial confirmations, and fresh scrutiny of Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill awaits the...

31.08.2025 10

Brisbane Times

Cory Alpert

Posturing over peace: What Trump and Putin’s meeting was really about

In one of the few places on Earth where both men were safe, the point of this summit was never to resolve the war in Ukraine.

17.08.2025 8

WA Today

Cory Alpert

Posturing over peace: What Trump and Putin’s meeting was really about

In one of the few places on Earth where both men were safe, the point of this summit was never to resolve the war in Ukraine.

17.08.2025 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Cory Alpert

Posturing over peace: What Trump and Putin’s meeting was really about

In one of the few places on Earth where both men were safe, the point of this summit was never to resolve the war in Ukraine.

17.08.2025 9

The Age

Cory Alpert

Posturing over peace: What Trump and Putin’s meeting was really about

In one of the few places on Earth where both men were safe, the point of this summit was never to resolve the war in Ukraine.

17.08.2025 10

Brisbane Times

Cory Alpert

America’s once kitschy obsession with Trump is no longer funny

In American mythology, the Fourth of July has always been a day when everyone could celebrate something that felt unifying. But this year felt...

07.07.2025 10

WA Today

Cory Alpert

America’s once kitschy obsession with Trump is no longer funny

In American mythology, the Fourth of July has always been a day when everyone could celebrate something that felt unifying. But this year felt...

07.07.2025 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Cory Alpert

America’s once kitschy obsession with Trump is no longer funny

In American mythology, the Fourth of July has always been a day when everyone could celebrate something that felt unifying. But this year felt...

07.07.2025 10

The Age

Cory Alpert

America’s once kitschy obsession with Trump is no longer funny

In American mythology, the Fourth of July has always been a day when everyone could celebrate something that felt unifying. But this year felt...

07.07.2025 10

Brisbane Times

Cory Alpert

Americans have seen this movie before. Trump playing the hero doesn’t fool anyone

I grew up in America under the shadow of the Iraq War. Now, it feels as though history will repeat itself in Iran.

22.06.2025 4

WA Today

Cory Alpert

Americans have seen this movie before. Trump playing the hero doesn’t fool anyone

I grew up in America under the shadow of the Iraq War. Now, it feels as though history will repeat itself in Iran.

22.06.2025 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Cory Alpert

Americans have seen this movie before. Trump playing the hero doesn’t fool anyone

I grew up in America under the shadow of the Iraq War. Now, it feels as though history will repeat itself in Iran.

22.06.2025 5

The Age

Cory Alpert

Americans have seen this movie before. Trump playing the hero doesn’t fool anyone

I grew up in America under the shadow of the Iraq War. Now, it feels as though history will repeat itself in Iran.

22.06.2025 5

Brisbane Times

Cory Alpert

Trump fantasises about being king and he doesn’t care which rules he breaks to become one

America is not a place where tanks normally roll through the streets on the president’s birthday. This is a machismo that can lead only to...

15.06.2025 9

WA Today

Cory Alpert

Trump fantasises about being king and he doesn’t care which rules he breaks to become one

America is not a place where tanks normally roll through the streets on the president’s birthday. This is a machismo that can lead only to...

15.06.2025 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Cory Alpert

Trump fantasises about being king and he doesn’t care which rules he breaks to become one

America is not a place where tanks normally roll through the streets on the president’s birthday. This is a machismo that can lead only to...

15.06.2025 10

The Age

Cory Alpert

Trump fantasises about being king and he doesn’t care which rules he breaks to become one

America is not a place where tanks normally roll through the streets on the president’s birthday. This is a machismo that can lead only to...

15.06.2025 7

Brisbane Times

Cory Alpert

I’ve spent time with tech oligarchs – you have no idea just how weird they are

Like the rocket ships Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are shovelling money into, the tech being prioritised by Silicon Valley’s billionaires isn’t...

03.06.2025 8

WA Today

Cory Alpert

I’ve spent time with tech oligarchs – you have no idea just how weird they are

Like the rocket ships Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are shovelling money into, the tech being prioritised by Silicon Valley’s billionaires isn’t...

03.06.2025 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Cory Alpert

I’ve spent time with tech oligarchs – you have no idea just how weird they are

Like the rocket ships Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are shovelling money into, the tech being prioritised by Silicon Valley’s billionaires isn’t...

03.06.2025 10

The Age

Cory Alpert

I’ve spent time with tech oligarchs – you have no idea just how weird they are

Like the rocket ships Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are shovelling money into, the tech being prioritised by Silicon Valley’s billionaires isn’t...

03.06.2025 8

Brisbane Times

Cory Alpert

Trump dreamt of a global far-right. Instead, he’s driving Europe to the left

In a candidate calling himself Trump’s “natural ally”, Romanian voters saw what a turn back towards a corrupt autocracy looked like and chose...

19.05.2025 5

WA Today

Cory Alpert

Trump dreamt of a global far-right. Instead, he’s driving Europe to the left

In a candidate calling himself Trump’s “natural ally”, Romanian voters saw what a turn back towards a corrupt autocracy looked like and chose...

19.05.2025 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Cory Alpert

Trump dreamt of a global far-right. Instead, he’s driving Europe to the left

In a candidate calling himself Trump’s “natural ally”, Romanian voters saw what a turn back towards a corrupt autocracy looked like and chose...

19.05.2025 5

The Age

Cory Alpert

Trump dreamt of a global far-right. Instead, he’s driving Europe to the left

In a candidate calling himself Trump’s “natural ally”, Romanian voters saw what a turn back towards a corrupt autocracy looked like and chose...

19.05.2025 10

Brisbane Times

Cory Alpert

Canada’s prime minister schools the world: stand up to the bully, win the election

The world is no longer standing in America’s shadow. It is learning, quickly and with no small amount of fear, how to stand on its own.

30.04.2025 3

WA Today

Cory Alpert

Canada’s prime minister schools the world: stand up to the bully, win the election

The world is no longer standing in America’s shadow. It is learning, quickly and with no small amount of fear, how to stand on its own.

30.04.2025 20

The Sydney Morning Herald

Cory Alpert

Canada’s prime minister schools the world: stand up to the bully, win the election

The world is no longer standing in America’s shadow. It is learning, quickly and with no small amount of fear, how to stand on its own.

30.04.2025 8

The Age

Cory Alpert

Canada’s prime minister schools the world: stand up to the bully, win the election

The world is no longer standing in America’s shadow. It is learning, quickly and with no small amount of fear, how to stand on its own.

30.04.2025 4

Brisbane Times

Cory Alpert

Pope Francis’ care for others reflected the best of all of us

As a Jew, I was always impressed by Pope Francis’ commitment to reach out to other communities, and people with no religious affiliations.

23.04.2025 3

WA Today

Cory Alpert

Pope Francis’ care for others reflected the best of all of us

As a Jew, I was always impressed by Pope Francis’ commitment to reach out to other communities, and people with no religious affiliations.

23.04.2025 8

The Sydney Morning Herald

Cory Alpert