Britain’s decision to leave the European Union represents one of the seismic events in recent political history, and one that has direct implications for Australia’s federal election.

The anti-political populism on display in the US and UK, is it part of the problem, or does it point to a potential cure?

The closer the ‘Brexit’ referendum comes, the more brutal and catastrophist the political rhetoric has become. Fear, mutual suspicion and sheer expedience seem to prevail on both sides of the debate. Have the ethical principles that should guide such a momentous decision been lost?

Is there a case for leaving the EU that isn’t tainted by anti-immigrant nativism?

The mass shooting at a gay night club in Orlando, Florida is being coopted by competing ideological agendas.

This week's horrifying mass shooting at the Pulse night club in Orlando, Florida provoked expressions of grief, solemnity and heartfelt solidarity throughout the world.

How could the “black, confident, cocky” young boxer with the prodigious wit and militant hostility toward “white America”, who joined the Nation of Islam, become a unifying, quintessentially ‘American’ icon?

Over the past three decades, Muhammad Ali has been sanitized and rendered acceptable for wider public consumption.

The rise of protest politics in nations like the United States, Austria, Britain and France has seen a resurgence of populist movements and extremist political candidates on the right and the left. But in Australia, this era of political instability seems to have produced political timidity in our leaders.  Why are our political leaders so risk averse?

The first leaders’ debate of the 2016 Australian election campaign demonstrated little political risk or personal passion.  What’s driving this timid approach to politics?