Australia

The World’s Best Post Offices

The much-maligned U.S. Postal Service stacks up surprisingly well in international rankings.

BY JOSHUA E. KEATING | FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Continental Drift

Is Australia breaking with the United States over the pivot to Asia?

BY BATES GILL | NOVEMBER 28, 2012

The Big Bang Theory of Education

Authoritarian countries don't seem to be doing well at the knowledge business. That's probably no accident.

BY CHRISTIAN CARYL | OCTOBER 11, 2012

The FP Survey: The Economy

If we're ever going to get out of this slump, what will it take? We asked more than 60 leading economists to tell us.

NOVEMBER 2012

Buildup Down Under

The American president insisted his historic visit to Australia was not about China. But, of course, that's exactly what it was about.

BY RORY MEDCALF | NOVEMBER 17, 2011

The LWOT: Patriot Act renewed just before deadline

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BY ANDREW LEBOVICH | MAY 27, 2011

The LWOT: Mumbai terror trial focuses on Pakistani intelligence role

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BY ANDREW LEBOVICH | MAY 24, 2011

Down Under … Water

Scenes of Australia's "Inland Tsunami."

JANUARY 12, 2011

The LWOT: Terror arrests roil Europe; Obama considers indefinite detention review process

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BY ANDREW LEBOVICH | JANUARY 3, 2011

Check Matey

A woman is finally prime minister of Australia. But for how long?

BY CHLOE ANGYAL | AUGUST 18, 2010

Location, Location, Location

The curse of distance isn’t going anywhere.

BY JOSHUA E. KEATING | JULY/AUGUST 2010

Nanjing by the Numbers

A new report on the 1937-1938 massacre doesn't settle the contested issue of how many people died -- but it points to a much more significant new consensus between Japan and China.

BY KATE MERKEL-HESS, JEFFREY N. WASSERSTROM | FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Seven Questions: José Ramos-Horta

East Timor's Nobel Prize-winning president asks, just who is the failed state here?

BY SIMON ROUGHNEEN | JULY 9, 2009

A Cringing Aussie Left

BY PAUL SHEEHAN | MARCH 1, 2002