Iran is the weakest. If Iran falls, war in our region – intended or unintended – becomes vastly more likely. Mainstream New Zealanders and Australians suffer from an understandable complacency: war is ...

Te Pāti Māori condemns the Israeli navy’s armed interception of the Madleen, a civilian aid vessel carrying food, medical supplies, and international activists to Gaza, including Greta Thunberg.

From grey zone coercion to regional surveillance competition, the Indo-Pacific is now in live contest. Yet our national innovation posture is not structured to mitigate emerging risks or leverage ...

This excerpt is from a discussion at the Festival of Debate in Sheffield, England, the largest annual politics festival in the UK (a non-partisan event “that encourages active citizenship and ...

It is exceedingly difficult to convince capitalists to forego short-term profits for any cause. Even in this instance, when the cause is to try and reassert the dominance of US corporations in the ...

The waka of the ACT Party is an AI hallucination. It is a piece of driftwood, also known as woke-wood, which people cling on to for dear life, and which must be dragged out of the water, chopped up ...

While Christopher Luxon's National-led government has been busy patting themselves on the back for delivering a whopping 25 state houses in Rotorua that apparently employed 300 people, they've quietly ...