Charlie Lewis

Roughly halfway through, The Hack delivers itself a blow from which it never recovers

With its indifference to truth, the ruthless pursuit of opponents, the linking of sexuality to subversion and the capitulation of institutions, Donald Trump's America is resembling the anti-Communist campaign of Senator Joseph McCarthy — on steroids.

Australian media and politicians have taken a huge interest in an overseas figure the vast majority of their constituents would have never heard of before September 10.

As with everything in American history, the separation of church and state has been far from straightforward.

Spotify has siphoned a decade's worth of profits from artists into the military tech industry. Is this the death of art?

People who for years have clogged our airwaves with various 'free speech' crises apparently caused by anti-vilification laws are weirdly quiet today after Jillian Segal's antisemitism report.

The opposition parties of Australia are in a dire position at both state and federal levels. Here's how a party spirals into chaos, and what the impact is on our politics.

For a bright, fizzing moment, Brian Wilson reached the pinnacle of everything pop in the 1960s was striving towards.

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Donald Trump's obsession with turning the army on its own people, like the Los Angeles protestors, is drawn from US political history as old as the country itself.